“Computers are ubiquitous, and you’ve probably had an instance where you are using a computer in one place and you need to access a computer in another location,” Glenn Fleishman writes for Macworld.
“For example, you’re at a coffee shop with a laptop, and you need something from the desktop computer in your home office,” Fleishman writes. “You might even want to give people you know the ability to access a computer when they are away. This ability is called remote access.”
Macworld reader Sandy has three remote access scenarios she’d like to get set up:
• One contractor accessing an iMac remotely to use QuickBooks on the iMac. But that contractor is using Windows.
• Another contractor who has a Mac and needs to access a different iMac on a daily basis.
• The first iMac might sometimes need to be accessed remotely by the second contractor and by Sandy.
What to do?
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I’d rather know how to prevent remote access. There are so many Bluetooth devices in my neighborhood that when I play music on my iPad it plays on Bluetooth speakers in three other houses on the street! And nobody on my street uses a password on their WiFi but me! My Mac keeps switching to,other people’s WiFi!
Go to System Preferences -> Network -> WiFi -> Advanced.
Drag the networks in the order of your preference. Select a network and hit the – button to remove it. This will prevent auto-connecting to them (unless you do again).
Bluetooth is pretty much the same… Settings-> Bluetooth-> Device -> i -> Forget this Device.
Apple’s remote screen sharing works fine on a LAN. It has failed me many times when trying to access my headless Mac Pro from the web. Sometimes the problem is with Apple and their iCloud server, other times the Mac Pro decides to pop up a dialog asking the non-existent user for permission to screen share!
The fix is called Jump — it actually works.
or you can just use the free teamviewer….
I use Parallels Access. Bertrand Serlet is on the board of the company- BTW.
You can run Mac Apps on an iPad with it as well.