Unlike more sophisticated programs, there are no setting for the type of remote support you want to allow, so if you have the host service running, you grant full control to the accessing machine. I can still log onto the machine and view everything, but remotely no keyboard typing or mouse clicks or movement are being registered.
Don't really care how fast or how effective it is as I need it only occasionally to install software, transfer files etc.Ī couple of days ago, unfortunately, remote controlling the PC from the Mac stopped working. This worked perfectly so far, no additional program such as TeamViewer to install (which I used before), just Chrome along with the host service.
How they can expect anyone to spend the money on LMI Pro with this sort of glaring shortcoming is beyond me.I am using the Google Chrome Remote Desktop Host to remote control my wife's PC from my Mac and my Mac from my wife's PC.
This is workable, but its not like it should be. I have Exposé configured with 'Show all Windows' on a 'hot corner' top right, so putting the pointer to the top right corner of the screen will at least show me all open windows, allowing me to come back to the parent window to hit Disconnect. At that point you're effectively pretty stuck - you can't even disconnect unless you have Exposé or something configured to show all windows with a keystroke, and Force Quitting Safari is often the quickest way out. DO NOT use 'Full Screen' in the LMI controls - the remote's Desktop will be zoomed to full screen but excluding its menu bar, and with the LMI controls unavailable. The other problem is that once you've found your connection window, use the standard MacOS window zoom button (green) at the top left to maximise it. However, the 'subwindow' should certainly show in the Window menu at least - having it open under the active window and not bring itself to the foreground is pretty dumb. If all the interaction with the remote machine is controlled by the plugin, and the plugin is required to open a separate window by WebProcess, there isn't much they can do. The architecture they're running under has changed substantially. Nevertheless, it's (usually) there! Minimise or move the main window, and you'll probably find it.
Often, this is because the connection has opened in a separate window, which is not only smaller than your main Safari window and behind it, but also not listed in Safari's 'Window' menu. However, in the space in the Safari window where you used to see the remote machine's screen, you now just get a black rectangle. The most noticeable effect this has on LMI is that when you connect to a remote machine, you click 'Connect', and you're then asked to authenticate (enter user name and password). Safari now seems to hand off a lot of stuff to something called 'WebProcess' which deals with a lot of stuff on Safari's behalf. This version is 'sandboxed' within the OS, meaning that stuff which uses 'plugins' (such as LMI) will alter in behaviour. At least part of this is that along with your MacOS upgrade, you now have a new version of Safari.