carl moonan | the dude abides

Screen sharing is very useful so is the curtain feature of ARD which is a licensed product from Apple. You can apply a couple of setting to:

Show a browser of available machines

Display the ARD like tool bar to enable some more features in screen sharing

With the above two settings enabled when loading the screen sharing application you will be presented with a browser screen of the available machines. You should also get an extra toolbar in the main sharing window with options to:

Fit screen in Window

Switch between control and observe mode

Share mouse and keyboard with user

Lock computer screen while you control

To activate the bonjour browser open a terminal and enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing ShowBonjourBrowser_Debug 1

To enable the ARD like toolbar open a terminal and enter this command:

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing 'NSToolbar Configuration ControlToolbar' -dict-add 'TB Item Identifiers' '(Scale,Control,Share,Curtain,Capture,FullScreen,GetClipboard,SendClipboard,Quality)'

Screen Sharing is located in:

/System/Library/CoreServices/