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Apple Remote Desktop over the Internet using SSH

Asked by: compurob

I want to connect to the company LAN from home, through my IPCOP firewall, and control various MacBook Pro's via ARD.  Controlling one machine at a time is okay.

I need to provide remote support to MBPro users over the internet. I can currently connect to windows users with the following SSH Script:

sudo ssh -L 3389:192.168.2.0.111:3389 -L 445:192.168.0.99:445 root@(my-ip-addy) -p 222

445 is the port used for IPCOP firewall.

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2009-11-02 at 15:27:28ID24865670
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Answers

 

by: JimUPosted on 2009-11-02 at 15:51:16ID: 25725009

Apple remote desktop just uses VNC so connecting over port 5900 is all you need.  Can use whatever VNC client you want.  Might have to be a newer one like TIghtVNC, just just tried TightVNC 1.3.9 and it worked with Snow Leopard.

Assuming the Mac user has turned on Screen Sharing and enabled the "VNC viewers may control screen with password" option.

Are you SSH'ing into the Mac or just SSH'ing into the corporate LAN and then forwarding the ports to each Mac machine?  You can use something like:
ssh -L 5999:remote.mac.machine:5900 user@corporate.machine

The connect to your local machine as if it were the VNC machine on port 5999:
vncviewer localhost::5999

That will connect to your local port 5999 which is then forwarded over the SSH connection to the remote.mac.machine port 5900.

 

by: compurobPosted on 2009-11-02 at 16:25:10ID: 25725183

I SSH into my IPCOP firewall and port forward to the ip address of the machine I need to connect to.  I want to use Apple Remote Desktop. I've installed the client on the company MBPros

 

by: JimUPosted on 2009-11-02 at 17:28:45ID: 25725452

Same thing when using Apple Remote Desktop but things like the Scanner won't work across ssh so you need to manually add each machine.

So from your Mac you will do something like:

1. Open Terminal and  "ssh -L 5999:remote.mac.machine.ip.address:5900 user@your.ipcop.firewall"

2. Open Apple Remote Desktop.  Go to File->Add by Address...  Use "localhost" as the address, fill in the user name and password for the remote machine, Click Advanced Options, change the Screen Sharing Port to your local port (in this case that would be 5999).

3. Now you can click the newly added machine and "Control" it.

 

by: JimUPosted on 2009-11-02 at 17:31:36ID: 25725463

Also consider using compression if you're going over the Internet.  "ssh -C" option.

 

by: jlg89Posted on 2009-11-03 at 08:24:20ID: 25730576

You might want to consider setting up a dedicated ARD admin machine at your office, configured so that it can admin all the machines on the office network. Then you only have to remote-control that one machine, and from there you can admin anything in the office. I manage desktops for several different clients in this way. One of the many benefits is that I can use any VNC client to do it...I don't have to have my laptop with me. I've used friends' PCs, family Macs, my iPhone, etc. Makes it very easy.

 

by: ahoffmannPosted on 2009-11-03 at 09:02:24ID: 25731023

depending on your version of ARD you need to forward port 3283, 5900 and/or 5988

 

by: JimUPosted on 2009-11-03 at 09:18:09ID: 25731187

I found that in ARP 3.3 all I needed was 5900.  But I didn't test every feature, just controlling another machine.

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