


You can also directly access and use the Mac VNC client Screen Sharing for this purpose. Authenticate according to the allowed users, and connect to the other Mac to control the screen.Prefixed with vnc:// enter the IP address of the Mac you want to connect to and control the screen of, for example:.From the Finder, hit Command+K or pull down the “Go” menu and bring up Connect To Server.Connect to the Remote Mac Screen (as client) With sharing enabled on the server Mac, now a connection can be made from the client Mac (or PC). Make a note of the Macs IP address, that is what you will be connecting to.Set access as necessary by choosing “Administrators” or specifying a specific user that can remotely control the Mac.Check the box next to “Screen Sharing” to enable the feature on the Mac you want to share.Open System Preferences from the Apple menu and click on “Sharing”.

Enable Screen Sharing on the Mac whose Screen will be shared (as server) We’ll break this walkthrough into two parts, one for setting up the “server” and one for connecting to those servers with a “client”. To make things easy, the Mac screen being shared will be called the “server” and the other Mac connecting to it will be called the “client”. How to Set Up & Use Screen Sharing in Mac OS X Screen Sharing is extremely easy to setup, follow along or watch the video below for a quick demonstration. Note: The unsaved changes were indeed lost after reboot.Screen Sharing will work across just about any supported Mac OS X versions too, a Mac running macOS Big Sur, macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, MacOS High Sierra, Mac OS Sierra, OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and anything newer, can connect to a work Mac running Snow Leopard, and so on. There was no noticeable delay at all, the Mac shut down as though everything had just quit as normal. This is normally guaranteed to prevent Shut Down. I tested with a Photoshop document with unsaved changes. This will 'force' quit any app that demands an answer before it would normally quit. Restarting my cause other users logged into this computer to lose unsaved changesĮnter your admin credentials & hit Restart/Shut Down as appropriate. You need the Fast User Switching menu item enabled on the remote Mac - System Prefs > Users & Groups > Login Optionsįrom the Apple menu, select Shut Down I did it all via the GUI for best emulation of what may happen over Teamviewer. I was connected to a Mac I could also physically watch whilst I was doing this remotely. I cannot test this with TeamViewer, but I managed to get it to work over Apple Remote Desktop.
