How do I work on a Remote Mac?

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Dave - 13 Mar 2005 06:11 GMT

I will soon be giving a g3/266 to my mom as her first computer.
Mom's 100 miles away, and I'm sure she will have MANY questions.
I would like to work on Mom's Mac from home to show her things, and to fix
things.
She will have Dial-up and I have Cable.
Both machines are running OS 9.1 ( won't use OS X ).
How can i work on Moms machine from afar?
Hope you can help....Thanks....DaveC...

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Tom Stiller - 13 Mar 2005 13:15 GMT

> I will soon be giving a g3/266 to my mom as her first computer.
> Mom's 100 miles away, and I'm sure she will have MANY questions.
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> How can i work on Moms machine from afar?
> Hope you can help....Thanks....DaveC...

There are versions of VNC for Mac OS 9, but I think you'll find screen
updates over a dial-up connection to be agonizingly slow.

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EVDOguy - 16 Mar 2005 18:49 GMT

> How can i work on Moms machine from afar?

There are a few ways.

VNC was mentioned, you can download that for free from
VersionTracker.com, just search on VNC.

The 2 methods that I currently use for remote controlling a mac are:

Timbuktu: [URL]http://www.netopia.com/software/products/tb2/[/URL]

Apple Remote Desktop 2:
[URL]http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/[/URL]

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