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

SMPH Shared Services

Connecting to your work Mac from a Windows PC or Mac at home

Connecting to your work Mac from a Windows PC or Mac at home is a little different. You’re not going to be able to use Remote Desktop, but that’s okay because there’s a free client called RealVNC viewer that will allow for access.  You need to download and install this client on the home PC or home Mac you will be accessing your work Mac from.

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

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titleSetting up your Work Mac (Click to expand instructions)

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". 


Open the “Sharing” preference panel.



Uncheck all boxes except for Remote Management.  Press the Remote Management box to check it (if it is not already).  It may ask you to give access controls, if it does, check all the boxes in that pop-up window and hit OK.


Setting up the PC you will use to connect to your work Mac

Your Mac’s screen can be accessed by its numbered address or COMPUTERNAME.domainlocation.

For AD users: COMPUTERNAME.ad.wisc.edu

For MSAD users: COMPUTERNAME.msad.hslc.wisc.edu

If you’re unsure how to access your Mac, go back to your Sharing preferences and double-check the information on the Screen Sharing settings.

Select options and Check all options

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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

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Enter the computer name or IP of your work computer

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Enter Username and password
*note account needs to be on the remote computer
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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 IPFor this example, we entered the numbered address in our VNC client and leave the encryption as it is.

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

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

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

  If your computer name had AD in front of it, you will need to include this, or MSAD if it had that. Once logged in, your Mac desktop will now appear in the VNC Viewer window in the same state as you left it.

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