You may not realize it, but you are traveling through another dimension right now. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Next stop…the Apple Screen Sharing Zone.
If you’re the curious sort—and I know I am—perhaps you’ve wondered what happens when you turn on screen sharing on two of your Macs, connect to the remote machine, and then use the remote machine to connect back to your local machine. Perhaps you have also wondered about the sound of one-hand clapping. But I digress.
Reader William was kind enough to send us the answer to the former question—click the picture above for an immersive view. Ah, it takes me back to the days of my high school freshman video class, where I would play around by pointing the video camera at the monitor that it was hooked up to. From there, you could almost see infinity—the joys of being easily amused.
Oh, and if you were wondering: the sound of one-hand clapping is “cl.” The other hand makes the “ap.”
That's an awesome Macintosh HD icon.
Hey! I made this experiment from the first time I installed Leopard. Take a look:
http://web.mac.com/letnic/SITOUEBE/SCREEN_SHARING.html
I recently figured out something similar (but even more geeky).
By default, Screen Sharing won't let you share your own screen (if you try, you'll get a message that says "You can not share your own computer").
But if you use an ssh port forwarding trick, you can get around this restriction. All you need is an ssh server (any other Mac with Remote Login enabled or any other computer with sshd running).
- From the Terminal run this command:
- Open the Screen Sharing application and type localhost:8888 into the Host: field. Note that 8888 can be any arbitrary non-reserved port number, just make sure you specify the same port number in both steps.
At this point, your desktop should start getting sucked into a black hole. Try clicking around, and Alt-Tabbing through your open applications to see some cool effects. Also, make sure you know the keyboard shortcut for Force Quit as you may need it to get out of the recursive mess you about to create (Command-Option-Esc).ssh -L 8888:localmac:5900 username@remotemac
(where localmac is the name or IP address of your Mac, username is your username on the other computer, and remotemac is the name or IP address of that other computer)
See recursive Screen Sharing in action
I've done that before.
http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/9342/screencapture4wh3.png
Yes tried that myself some time ago out of curiosity.
Is quite a funny effect to see how the pics get smaller and smaller. In the beginning you can still stop it by ending the screensharing, but after some time it wont respond so you need to plug one machine from the network to get control back :)
Good to know that I am not the only one curious enough to try that.