Apple Remote Desktop (Teacher Access)

[furby]

At my computer I use Apple Remote Desktop (save me walking around) and I'd like to give teachers access to it from one machine. I've installed it but not sure what the best way to give them the necessary acces is. Wondering if anyone has done it?

[SC92]

http://images.apple.com/remotedesktop/pdf/ARD_Admin_Guide_v3.3.pdf

 

Page 74 I think - I haven't done it myself but i'm planning to over the summer using that document - seems pretty straight forward!

[-Tim]

We have it installed on the teacher's Mac in each computer lab. We have not found a way to give each teacher access to a preconfigured ARD list when they login with their own Active Direcotry credentials. Instead, depending on the lab, they either login to a local account or a generic AD account on which I have set up ARD with that computer lab's computer list and an ARD password that only some teachers know.

[furby]

Sounds like what I ended up doing. Didn't seem to work when I gave the teachers group remote access. Oh well

[iSteve]

What we do is set up ARD as we wish our staff to see it, then copy ~/library/preferences/com.apple.remotedesktop.plist out, and force it on the machine as a managed preference via workgroup manager. This way staff inherit the correct computer lists as they log in across the site.