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From: Jim on 28 Mar 2010 07:57 Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> wrote: > > If you go to /System/Library/CoreServices there's an app in there called > > 'Screen Sharing' that you can put in the Dock. > > Ooh, never knew that. You do have to remember the IP number though. A > Browse option would have been useful. Rather annoyingly there _was_ a way of getting one. Then they removed it. Gits. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Chris Ridd on 28 Mar 2010 07:08 On 2010-03-28 12:57:53 +0100, Jim said: > Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> wrote: > >>> If you go to /System/Library/CoreServices there's an app in there called >>> 'Screen Sharing' that you can put in the Dock. >> >> Ooh, never knew that. You do have to remember the IP number though. A >> Browse option would have been useful. > > Rather annoyingly there _was_ a way of getting one. Then they removed > it. Can you use "machinename.local"? Of course now you've got to remember what machinename is. -- Chris
From: Jim on 28 Mar 2010 08:18 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> Ooh, never knew that. You do have to remember the IP number though. A > >> Browse option would have been useful. > > > > Rather annoyingly there _was_ a way of getting one. Then they removed > > it. > > Can you use "machinename.local"? Of course now you've got to remember > what machinename is. er...[checks] yes, that seems to work. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 28 Mar 2010 08:55 On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:08:10 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >On 2010-03-28 12:57:53 +0100, Jim said: > >> Phil Taylor <nothere(a)all.invalid> wrote: >> >>>> If you go to /System/Library/CoreServices there's an app in there called >>>> 'Screen Sharing' that you can put in the Dock. >>> >>> Ooh, never knew that. You do have to remember the IP number though. A >>> Browse option would have been useful. >> >> Rather annoyingly there _was_ a way of getting one. Then they removed >> it. > >Can you use "machinename.local"? Of course now you've got to remember >what machinename is. Yup. You can also just use "machinename" if you set "local" up as a search domain in network settings. Also under some other conditions which I haven't worked out. Cheers - Jaimie -- "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
From: Ben Shimmin on 28 Mar 2010 10:55
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org>: > On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:08:10 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> > wrote: [...] >> Can you use "machinename.local"? Of course now you've got to remember >> what machinename is. > > Yup. You can also just use "machinename" if you set "local" up as a > search domain in network settings. Also under some other conditions > which I haven't worked out. Perhaps if you have an appropriate `machinename' entry in /etc/hosts, too. b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert |