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Originally Posted by mikulla (Post 341522)

Does the machine that will be the host or remotely controlled need some kind of server software like osxvnc installed on it?

Or is just going into the setting in the system prefs and turning apple remote desktop control on good enough for that machine.

If you want a secure connection then you need to use SSH tunneling and a VNC sever on the mac that you want to remotely control. While the buiolt in software in OSx Is good, OSXVNC (Vine Server) is better.

I have a tutorial that I use to setup a SSH Tunnel and VNC. It may be of help.

http://jklinephd.com/vnc_through_ssh/index.html

Jeff