Can I control a Mac OSX machine using Windows?

[SendTrash]

I have a Mac OSX computer that is in another room and I want to be able to remotely connect to it using my Windows Machine.

I know that Mac OSX can control Windows machines using the Remote Desktop client, but how do I do it the other way around?

Is there a windows version of "remote desktop client" that can talk to the Apple Remote Desktop?

 

[n0cmonkey]

VNC

 

[SendTrash]

I thought about that.. but everything is sent in plaintext.. is there a more secure method?

 

[bersl2]

VNC tunnelled through SSH

 

[gaidin123]

Get OSxvnc from sourceforge. It has an option to only allow local connections (ie tunneled over ssh). It works as well as vnc can.

Gaidin

 

[SendTrash]

thanks for the advice.. I was kinda hoping that were was a built-in/simple option that I was overlooking.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: SendTrash
thanks for the advice.. I was kinda hoping that were was a built-in/simple option that I was overlooking.

OpenSSH.

 

[SendTrash]

Well, I need to have a visual way to connect to a Mac OSX machine, because I want to use the safari browser to test the web site I am developing.

just an update, I cannot get that OSX VNC program to work at all.

For some odd reason I can connect to VNC if I remote desktop to my windows machine, but if I am phyiscally at my windows machine I cannot VNC in.

Microsoft did the nice thing and made a working Mac client to work with Windows Remote Desktop, you would think Apple would return the favor and make a working Windows Client for the Apple Remote Desktop.

 

[drag]

Hm. Linux has the ability to do remote desktop with Microsoft's stuff and it didn't have anything to do with MS being gracious.

Not that I've used Windows remote desktop, but I've used OS X's and it's pretty features... Ability to install software packages automaticly over dozens of OS X clients with little more then a drag and drop. But that's not even free for OS X users.

VNC will work. If you want security you just tunnel thru SSH. OS X has OpenSSH installed by default, I beleive. Most Unix operating systems do. And you can use Putty.exe to tunnel from Windows to OS X.

http://people.hmdc.harvard.edu/~mathpre/vnc/putty/