March 26, 2008
Remote start screen-sharing (for those cold winter mornings)
Posted Mar. 26, ’08, 9:08 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Tips
So there you are, on the road—what, you don’t travel? Okay, bear with me—there you are, on the road, and you need to take a look at something on your desktop Mac back at home. You fire up Leopard’s built-in screen-sharing, only to find that while you oh-so-cleverly remembered to leave your desktop Mac on, you neglected to turn on screen sharing.
Tipster alblue over at Mac OS X Hints has this easy solution for you, if you were also clever enough to leave remote login enabled: you can start screen-sharing from the command line simply by creating a file in the correct directory. Just navigate to /Library/Preferences and enter the following command:
echo -n enabled > com.apple.ScreenSharing.launchd
Voilà. That’s it. Want to turn it off again? Just enter the following command in the same directory:
rm com.apple.ScreenSharing.launchd
Couldn’t be easier. Well, it could probably be a little easier, but it’s pretty darn easy.
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