Remote Control of Itunes
Some useful links: Apple: About screen sharing CNET: Tutorial: Screen Sharing in Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5): How it works and how it doesn't |
you can also just share multiple itunes from each itunes screen. just turn on sharing and look for other itunes and you will get icons for each itunes it finds. plus you can screen share. i import into my local itunes. then i screen share the itunes on my mac server, then from the servers itunes, i connect to my itunes that i just imported to, and copy the tracks to the server. this allows copying itunes from 1 itunes library to another to sync up iphones/ipods, setup multiple zones to multiple airport express or apple tv's, etc... |
Thanks so far guys. Any information on how to share screens using my Dell PC laptop as the remote would be much appreciated. Although I have an older Mac laptop (running OS 10.3.9), it is slated for other service and my preference is to use the computer I drag around for work (using Windows XP Professional). Given that the OS on my Mac Mini is 10.5.7 (that is Leopard, right?), I'm not sure whether I'll need to use Apple's Remote Desktop in conjugation with its screen sharing functionality, but that's all I know so far. Thanks, Peter |
If you use Windows, you should turn on Leopard's Remote Management feature from System Preferences. Leopard has a full featured VNC server built in. All you need from the Windows side is a VNC client and you can remotely control your MacMini, no Apple Remote Desktop required. There are a lot of fee VNC clients available on the web. Just Google it and download a few to see which one you like best. |
Understand you want to use a laptop... but have you considered using iphone or itouch as a remote? (http://www.apple.com/itunes/remote/) |
