Accessing your SMPH Mac desktop when you are away from the office from a PC or Mac

Accessing your SMPH Mac desktop when you are away from the office from a PC or Mac

Verify the Following Settings are Properly in Place on your Mac at Work (the one you are connecting to)

SMPH Shared Services has pushed settings out to your work computer use the following to verify they are set.

Just like with Windows, you first have to set up your work Mac for screen sharing. Press on the Apple Menu, and then press "System Preferences". 

About this Mac

Open "General", and then click "Sharing"


System Settings showing General>Sharing

Enable "Remote Management", and select the "i". 

Sharing pane showing "Remote Management"

Enable all the sliders in that pop-up window and hit OK.

Image showing all settings enabled in "Remote Management"

*Note this Mac may need to restart for the connection to work*

Connecting From Mac

WiscVPN - Installing and Connecting the GlobalProtect Client (Mac)  - https://kb.wisc.edu/73116

Open spotlight and type in "Screen Sharing.app" and select it

Spotlight Screen Sharing

Enter the computer name or IP of your work computer

Computer Name

Enter Username and password
*note account needs to be on the remote computer
Username

When you connect to the target Mac, you will also need to log into your user account for that computer.

Connecting from PC

Install RealVNC from http://www.realvnc.com/download/viewer/

WiscVPN - Installing and Connecting the GlobalProtect Client (Windows)  - https://kb.wisc.edu/91915

Once installed Open Real VNC

enter computer name or IP

VNC IP Address

After entering in the address of the work computer, hit Enter.


You will get a security warning, check the box to not warn about the connection again, and click Continue.


Security warning

An authentication box will appear where you will need to enter the username and password for your Mac.
*note account needs to be on the remote computer

Username and password prompt

When you connect to the target Mac, you will also need to log into your user account for that computer.

Once logged in, your Mac desktop will now appear in the VNC Viewer window in the same state as you left it.

VNC Connection Screen

If you mouse to the top-middle of the window, you can spawn extra controls, which when you hover will give you a tooltip explaining what each one does.

VNC Extra Controls

This little toolbar will let you take actions such as close the connection, go to full-screen, and more. Hover over each button to learn what it does.

You’ll find handy shortcuts to close and save the connection, as well as to change options, and a full-screen button so your shared desktop fills the screen.

On the work Mac side of things, a Screen Sharing icon will appear in the menu bar. This lets you quickly and easily access the Screen Sharing preferences or disconnect clients.

        Screen Sharing Icon



Keywords:
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Doc ID:
134213
Owned by:
Deb M. in SMPH
Created:
2024-01-16
Updated:
2024-08-01
Sites:
School of Medicine and Public Health