Kada su me zamolili da ažuriram naš članak iz 2010. o daljinskom povezivanju s računalom s Maca^(Mac) , mislio sam da će to biti prilično jednostavan zadatak. Međutim, otkako je napisan taj članak, Microsoft je odustao od podrške za njihov softver za povezivanje s udaljenom radnom površinom za ^{(Remote Desktop Connection)}Macove^(Macs) . Iako postoje anegdotski izvještaji o tome da radi na OS X Lion , definitivno neće raditi na OS X Mountain Lion , najnovijoj verziji OS^{(OS X)} X. Stoga sam krenuo u potragu za novim, besplatnim opcijama, a pokazalo se da i to nije bio jednostavan zadatak. Ovdje su najbolji besplatni alati za daljinsko povezivanje s Mac računala ili uređaja sa sustavom Windows 7^{(Windows 7)} ili Windows 8.

Softver^(Software) , softver, tko ima softver?

Wikipedia je pružila ovaj korisni grafikon različitih opcija i mislio sam da bi bilo lako odabrati samo nekoliko za istraživanje: Usporedba softvera za udaljenu radnu površinu^{(Comparison of remote desktop software)} . Međutim, kad sam se upustio u to, otkrio sam da opcija nije toliko puno i raznoliko kao što se čini na prvi pogled. Ne radi sve na Macu^(Mac) , a velika većina programa navedenih u grafikonu, bez obzira na platformu, nije besplatna. A neke od besplatnih opcija definitivno nisu za svakodnevnog korisnika, kao što ćemo vidjeti u ovom članku. Počelo je izgledati kao da nemam mnogo izbora, ali bilo ih je nekoliko, pa sam počeo s njima — i usput sam dobio neka iznenađenja.

NAPOMENA:^(NOTE:) Ove usluge funkcionirale su identično u sustavima Windows 7^{(Windows 7)} i Windows 8 sa samo manjim detaljima o tome kako su različiti prozori izgledali. Koristim svoje stolno računalo sa sustavom Windows 7^{(Windows 7)} za pružanje većine slika za ovaj članak jer su bile veće i lakše vidljive.

LogMeIn - radi dobro, ali obmanjuju korisnike

Počeo sam istražujući LogMeIn , koji ima besplatnu i plaćenu Pro verziju. Za svako računalo kojem želite pristupiti morate preuzeti malu aplikaciju specifičnu za operativni sustav i pokrenuti je. Prijava za besplatnu verziju bila je jednostavna i jasna. Dao sam email adresu i lozinku i to je bilo to. Mislio sam.

LogMeIn mi je poslao lijepu e-poštu dobrodošlice, s vezom za klik — i tu su stvari postale malo ljepljivije nego što sam mislio. Reproducirao sam cijeli sadržaj e-pošte u nastavku i dodao strelicu koja označava nešto što nije privuklo moju pozornost, a trebalo je.

da. Klikom na gumb "Prijava"^{("Log In")} odveo me izravno na besplatnu probnu verziju LogMeIn Pro^{(LogMeIn Pro)} , a ne na besplatnu uslugu LogMeIn za koju sam mislio da ću vidjeti. Provjerio sam s podrškom za LogMeIn i da, ovo je način na koji bi trebao raditi. Podmuklo^(Sneaky) . Doduše, ne može vam se naplatiti Pro verzija osim ako im ne date podatke o plaćanju i autorizaciju, ali nisam bio sretan što sam dobio besplatnu probnu verziju, a ne samostalnu besplatnu uslugu za koju sam vjerovao da je web stranica dostupna.

Osim toga, LogMeIn radi prilično dobro. Morate dodati svako računalo kojim želite daljinski upravljati, tako da se prijavite u aplikaciju LogMeIn sa svakim i kliknete na "dodaj računalo". ^{("add a computer.")}Evo, radim sa svog Mac Mini . Kada sam pokrenuo softver po prvi put, zatraženo je da ga ažuriram, pa sam to i učinio, a zatim je zatraženo da ponovno pokrenem preglednik.

A kad sam se ponovno ulogirao... vau, beskonačna regresija! Petljajući oko toga, prvo sam pokrenuo LogMeIn s računala sa sustavom Windows^(Windows) i međusobno su se vraćali.

Brzo sam prešao na drugu stranicu i sve je bilo u redu.

Iako je bio pomalo spor i ne sasvim glatko, LogMeIn je dobro radio i mogao sam kontrolirati Windows računalo izravno s Maca^(Mac) , bez ikakvih problema.

TeamViewer - besplatan, brz i sjajan

TeamViewer , koji je prvenstveno namijenjen poslovnim korisnicima (i s odgovarajućom cijenom) kaže da je besplatan za privatnu upotrebu. Instalacija je vrlo slična onoj kod LogMeIn -a : preuzimate softver na svako računalo koje želite kontrolirati i pokrećete ga. Pitate se kako namjeravate koristiti softver. Odabir personal/non-commercial use omogućuje vam da besplatno pokrenete TeamViewer , kao što web stranica obećava.

Morat ćete stvoriti TeamViewer račun, koristeći svoju adresu e-pošte i lozinku. Od vas će se tražiti da potvrdite svoju e-poštu i tada ste spremni za rad.

U TeamViewer su ugrađene neke lijepe sigurnosne mjere , iako bih volio da je njihovo objašnjenje malo jasnije. Evo kako izgleda ekran.

Želite li kasnije pristupiti svom računalu? Naravno da jesi. Ono što zaslon zapravo znači i zašto je "Ne"^("No") zadana postavka je "Želite li ostaviti ovo računalo povezano s TeamViewerom cijelo vrijeme?" ^{("Do you want to leave this computer connected to TeamViewer all the time?")}Ako odgovorite Ne^(No) , tada će TeamViewer vašem računalu dodijeliti ID, a svaki put kada želite daljinski pristup, TeamViewer će vam dati nasumične lozinke, koju računalo koje želi pristup treba upisati na ekran za prijavu. Ovo je dobra mjera sigurnosti koja bi trebala spriječiti neželjeni pristup.

Postoje neke druge TeamViewer komponente koje možete dodati, a koje bi vam mogle biti korisne. Nisam ih testirao.

Nakon što instalirate aplikaciju na sva računala kojima želite daljinski pristup, spremni ste za početak. Prijavite^(Log) se na svoj račun i vidjet ćete broj računa i lozinku koje TeamViewer generira za vas. Ovo će vam trebati kada se povežete s drugim računalom.

Veza je odmah uspostavljena. Bilo je puno brže i glatko od onoga što sam vidio s LogMeIn-om^(LogMeIn) . TeamViewer stavlja mali informativni prozor u donji desni kut vašeg zaslona kako bi vam rekao što se događa s vašom vezom, ali možete ga jednostavno sažmiti tako da ne zaklanja zaslon.

Mogao sam savršeno kontrolirati drugo računalo i jako sam cijenio brzinu i lakoću pomicanja i kretanja po zaslonu. Mislim da je činjenica da je TeamViewer stvarno dizajniran za poslovnu upotrebu bila odlučujući čimbenik u njegovom dizajnu i razlog zašto je radio bolje od LogMeIn -a .

Google Chrome – veze s udaljenom^(Remote) radnom površinom iz preglednika

Tu je i dodatak za Google Chrome^{(Google Chrome addon)} koji omogućuje pristup daljinskom upravljaču, a naši prijatelji iz How-To Geek nedavno su napisali sjajan članak o tome. Isprobao sam ga, i funkcioniralo je onako dobro kako su rekli da hoće. Lako se instalira iz Chrome web-trgovine^{(Chrome Web Store)} , a upotreba je vrlo jednostavna i glatka. Ako ste korisnik Google Chromea^{(Google Chrome)} , ovo bi moglo biti sve što vam treba za daljinski pristup. Evo kako je to izgledalo na mom ekranu:

Ovdje možete vidjeti što je How-To Geek rekao o dodatku za Chrome : Kako koristiti Google Chrome za daljinski pristup vašem računalu^{(How to Use Google Chrome to Remotely Access Your Computer)} .

CrossLoop - radi dobro, ali je besplatan samo pri povezivanju samo dva računala

CrossLoop je besplatan ako se želite spojiti samo na jedno drugo računalo. Za sve dodatne veze morat ćete platiti licencu. Budući da sam morao odabrati samo jedan, odlučio sam se povezati s Mac -a na netbook sa sustavom Windows 8 koji posjedujem. ^{(Windows 8)}Na glavnom zaslonu odaberite Udaljeni pristup^{(Remote Access)} .

Ovo vas vodi na zaslon koji od vas traži da stvorite račun i navodi cijene za druge verzije softvera. Odavde se nastavlja kao i ostale usluge. Napominjem da se preuzimanje zapravo zove "CrossLoop Setup Premium".

Nakon što kreirate svoj račun, instalirate aplikaciju.

Nakon što se CrossLoop pokrene i pokrene na oba računala, sve što trebate učiniti je kliknuti na Poveži^(Connect) na oba računala (ovo je važno – ako ne kliknete na oba, vaša veza se neće pokrenuti) i pružiti informacije o računalu koje želite se povezati.

Veza je dobro funkcionirala. Evo ekrana netbooka:

CrossLoop također ima korisnu značajku koja vam omogućuje prebacivanje kontrole s jednog računala na drugo. Kliknete na dvostruke strelice i pitate se želite li prenijeti kontrolu. Ovo je također funkcioniralo prilično glatko.

CrossLoop bi bio izvrstan izbor ako se želite spojiti samo na jedno drugo računalo. Tražio sam svestranije besplatne aplikacije za ovaj članak, što je jedini razlog zašto nisam odabrao CrossLoop kao glavni izbor.

Provjeravam druge usluge... hm, možda i ne.

Istražio sam neke druge opcije za ovaj članak, koje nisam uspio isprobati zbog stručnosti potrebne za njihovu instalaciju i/ili korištenje. Ovi proizvodi nisu namijenjeni prosječnim korisnicima. U svakom slučaju^(Anyway) , želim ih spomenuti za one korisnike koji ih žele isprobati.

Činilo se da CoRD^(CoRD) zahtijeva višu razinu geek vještina od prosječnog korisnika, iako ima prednost što je i open source i besplatan.

A kad smo već kod geek vještina više razine, kad sam otišao provjeriti FreeRDP ... pa, prvi ekran je izgledao OK.

Ali kliknite na vezu za preuzimanje i odlazite na teritorij Teorije velikog praska . ^{(Big Bang Theory)}Zapravo sam prošao pored CalTech programera i moja sumnja u bitnu štreberku na visokoj razini odmah se potvrdila. 🙂

Nepotrebno je reći da nisam istraživao ništa dalje od ovoga. Sam sastavljanje ovog programa kako bi on funkcionirao nije nešto što bih želio uskoro isprobati.

Zaključci

Sve u svemu, mislim da će većina ljudi biti zadovoljna bilo TeamViewerom^(TeamViewer) ili LogMeIn-om^(LogMeIn) . Oni rade na isti način i ne zahtijevaju visoke tehničke vještine za korištenje. Držim se TeamViewera^(TeamViewer) jer je brži i glatkiji i jer me je naljutio LogMeIn zbog njegovog pristupa "besplatnoj" verziji, ali to neće nužno biti faktor za sve. Ove dvije aplikacije ne zahtijevaju nikakav poseban preglednik za rad, a instalirale su se i radile na svakoj platformi koju sam isprobao.

Dodatak Chrome Remote Desktop također bi bio izvrstan izbor ako ste korisnik Google Chromea^{(Google Chrome)} . Besplatan je, jednostavan za instalaciju, savršeno je radio i ima mnogo opcija. CrossLoop bi također bio dobar izbor ako znate da želite pristup samo jednom drugom računalu.

Jeste^(Have) li imali dobra ili loša iskustva sa softverom za daljinsko upravljanje, bilo s onim o kojima sam raspravljao ili s nekim drugim koji nisam isprobao? Volio bih čuti od vas o tome u komentarima.

4+ Free Tools for Making Remote Connections from Macs to Windows PCs

Whеn I was asked to update our 2010 article about connecting remotely to a PC from a Mac, I thought it would be a fairly simple task. However, since that article was written, Miсrosoft has dropped support for their Remote Desktop Connection software for Macs. While there are anecdotal reports of it working on OS X Lion, it definitely will not work on OS X Mountain Lion, the latest version of OS X. So I went in a quest of new, free options, and that also turned out not to be a simple task. Here are the best free tools for connecting remotely from your Mac to a Windows 7 or Windows 8 computer or device.

Software, software, who's got the software?

Wikipedia provided this helpful chart of the various options, and I thought it would be easy to just pick several to investigate: Comparison of remote desktop software. However, as I got into it, I found out that the options were not as many and varied as it appears at first glance. Not everything works on a Mac, and the vast majority of programs mentioned in the chart, regardless of platform, are not free. And some of the free options are definitely not for the everyday user, as we will see in this article. It was beginning to look like I didn't have many choices, but there were a few, so I got started on them—and got some surprises along the way.

NOTE: These services worked identically in both Windows 7 and Windows 8 with only minor details of how the various windows looked. I am using my Windows 7 desktop computer to provide most of the images for this article because they were larger and more easily visible.

LogMeIn - It works well but they are misleading users

I started out by investigating LogMeIn, which has a free version and a paid Pro version. For each computer you want to access, you must download a small operating system specific app and run it. Signing up for the free version was simple and straightforward. I provided an email address and a password and that was it. I thought.

LogMeIn sent me a nice welcoming email, with a link to click—and that's where things got a little stickier than I realized. I've reproduced the entire contents of the email below, and added an arrow to indicate something that didn't catch my attention and should have.

Yup. Clicking the "Log In" button took me directly to a free trial of LogMeIn Pro, not the free LogMeIn service that I thought I was going to see. I checked with LogMeIn support, and yes, this is the way it's supposed to work. Sneaky. Granted, you can't be charged for the Pro version unless you give them payment information and authorization, but I was not happy to be dumped into a free trial rather than the standalone free service the website led me to believe was available.

Other than that, though, LogMeIn works quite well. You need to add each computer you want to control remotely, by signing in to the LogMeIn app with each one and clicking "add a computer." Here, I am working from my Mac Mini. When I ran the software for the first time, I was asked to update it, so I did that, and then was asked to restart the browser.

And when I logged in again... whoa, infinite regression! In fiddling around with it, had run LogMeIn from the Windows computer first and they were feeding back to each other.

I quickly switched to another site and all was well.

Even though it was somewhat slow and not entirely smooth, LogMeIn worked well and I was able to control the Windows computer directly from the Mac, with no trouble at all.

TeamViewer - free, fast and awesome

TeamViewer, which is designed primarily for business users (and priced accordingly) says that it is free for private use. The installation is much like that of LogMeIn: you download the software to each computer you want to control, and run it. You are asked how you plan to use the software. Choosing personal/non-commercial use lets you run TeamViewer for free, as the web site promises.

You'll need to create a TeamViewer account, using your email address and a password. You'll be asked to confirm your email, and then you're ready to go.

There are some nice security measures built into TeamViewer, although I wish their explanation was a little more clear. Here is what the screen looks like.

Do you want to access your computer later? Of course you do. What the screen really means, and why "No" is the default, is "Do you want to leave this computer connected to TeamViewer all the time?" If you answer No, then TeamViewer will assign an ID to your computer, and every time you want remote access, TeamViewer will give you a random password, which the computer that wants access needs to type into the login screen. This is a nice measure of security that should help prevent unwanted access.

There are some other TeamViewer components you can choose to add in, which you might find useful. I did not test these.

Once you've got the app installed on all the computers you want remote access to, you're ready to start. Log in to your account and you'll see the account number and password that TeamViewer generates for you. You'll need this when you connect with another computer.

The connection was established immediately. It was a lot faster and smoother than what I'd seen with LogMeIn. TeamViewer puts a little informational window in the lower right corner of your screen, to tell you what's going on with your connection, but you can easily collapse that so it doesn't obscure the screen.

I could control the other computer perfectly and I really appreciated the speed and the ease of scrolling and moving around on the screen. I think the fact that TeamViewer is really designed for business use was the deciding factor in its design, and the reason why it worked better than LogMeIn.

Google Chrome - Remote desktop connections from the browser

There is also a Google Chrome addon that provides remote control access, and our friends at How-To Geek recently wrote a great article about it. I tried it out, and it worked every bit as well as they said it would. It's easy to install from the Chrome Web Store and its use is very straightforward and smooth. If you are a Google Chrome user, this very well could be all you need for remote access. Here's how it looked on my screen:

You can see what How-To Geek had to say about the Chrome plugin here: How to Use Google Chrome to Remotely Access Your Computer.

CrossLoop - works well but it's free only when connecting just two computers

CrossLoop is free if you want to connect to only one other computer. For any more connections you will need to pay for a license. Since I had to pick only one, I chose to connect from my Mac to the Windows 8 netbook I own. From the main screen, choose Remote Access.

This takes you to a screen that asks you to create an account, and lists the prices for the other versions of the software. From here, it proceeds just like the other services. I note that the download is actually called "CrossLoop Setup Premium."

Once you have created your account, you install the application.

Once CrossLoop is up and running on both computers, all you need to do is click Connect on both computers (this is important--if you don't click on both, your connection will not start) and provide the information about the computer you want to connect to.

The connection worked well. Here's the screen of the netbook:

CrossLoop also has a useful feature that allows you to switch control from one computer to the other. You click on the dual arrows and you're asked if you want to transfer control. This also worked quite smoothly.

CrossLoop would be an excellent choice if you only want to connect to one other computer. I was looking for more versatile free apps for this article, which is the only reason I didn't pick CrossLoop as a main choice.

Checking out other services... um, maybe not.

I investigated some other options for this article, which I did not manage to try out due to the expertise required in installing and/or using them. These products are not aimed at the average users. Anyway, I do want to mention them, for those users willing to give them a try.

CoRD seemed like it required some higher level geek skills than the average user is likely to have, although it does have the advantage of being both open source and free.

And speaking of higher level geek skills, when I went to check out FreeRDP... well, the first screen looked OK.

But click on the download link and you're off into Big Bang Theory territory. I actually ran this past a CalTech programmer and my suspicion of essential high-level geekery was immediately confirmed. 🙂

Needless to say I did not explore any farther than this. Compiling this program on my own in order to make it work is not something I would like to try anytime soon.

Conclusions

I think, overall, that most people will be happy with either TeamViewer or LogMeIn. They work in the same ways and they don't require any high level technical skills to use. I'm sticking with TeamViewer because it is faster and smoother and because I was annoyed with LogMeIn for its approach to a "free" version, but that's not necessarily going to be a factor for everyone. These two apps don't require any particular browser to work, and they installed and ran on every platform I tried.

The Chrome Remote Desktop add-in would also be an excellent choice if you are a Google Chrome user. It is free, easy to install, worked perfectly, and has plenty of options. CrossLoop would also be a good choice if you know you are only going to want access to one other computer.

Have you had good or bad experiences with remote control software, either the ones I discussed or another that I did not try? I'd love to hear from you about that in the comments.

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