Apple Remote Desktop 1.2 Released

sirisaac82 writes "Apple released version 1.2 of its Remote Desktop software. According to the website, new features include Remote Software Installation and Remote Network Startup Disk. Too bad it wasn't released yesterday, or you could have had a few more pranks to pull on those annoying co-workers."

RealVNC

[White Roses]

I'd really like a RealVNC solution (or compatible) for Mac OS X. I'm using VNCThing to view RealVNC servers from my iMac, but I haven't found much satisfaction in serving VNC off my iMac yet.

Hints?

Re:Remote Installation

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm responsible for the administration of a (small) bunch of mac under OS X (10.2).

I think ARA is only relevant when you administer a very small set of computers. When the number of computer is big, CLI (Command Line Interface) is prefered because it is some much simpler to execute remotely (from a shell) and to automate (write a shell script, add it your crontab).

And, at the moment, you don't have to pay anything to do this. Simply use "DiskCopy" (or "hdiutil" for its CLI equivalent) to create an image of the disk you want to replicate, and "asr" (Apple Software Restore) to replicate this image on your clients. Both are distributed for free in your OS X install. ASR as the advantage of being incredibly fast: it works on compressed images (less data to transfer) and at block level (no files to be created !).

man hdiutil
man asr

fanf

Interesting issue upgrading

[peaceful_bill]

Hi all

I have encountered a very interesting problem while upgrading from 1.1 to 1.2 ARD. On the main status window, I have client computers that flash in for a few seconds and then dissapear! I have successfully used ARD since September in a lab with 28 flat panel imacs, static IP addresses, and no DHCP.

Other details: All the machines (including the one's that are errantly popping up my list are on the asme subnet (255.255.0.0). The machines I _want_ to manage are 10.2.4, the ones that are popping on my list are 8.6 and 9. The 8.6 on'es are running under an At Ease environment.

I have spoken with Apple Tech support, erased my ARD installation using a shell script that Apple provided; I've also erased my com.apple.Remotedesktop.plists's

When I spoke with Apple, they mentioned that they were aware of a few other people having this problem.

Any suggestions? Bill