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I am a web developer. I am running on osx lion. A coworker, who runs snow leopard, found a bug in a feature that implemented that occurs only on his version of safari. The bug does not occur in mine.
I want to debug the issue on his computer without kicking him off his computer every 2 minutes when I make a change to my code. Is there a way that I can set up an account on his computer and remotely connect to it without interfering with any work he's doing?
I need GUI control, while at the same time not taking GUI control from him. THIS MEANS NO VNC. I also would like a free solution if one exists. I've been googling for a while now, but i feel like i am not hitting the correct search terms.
aamiri
Posted 2012-09-20T14:32:27.600
Reputation: 583
I don't think this is possible if your coworker's on Snow Leopard, because native multi-user screensharing was only added in Lion: http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/31/mac_os_x_10_7_lion_to_introduce_multi_user_screen_sharing.html
– Nick – 2012-09-20T14:43:49.453i am not looking for screensharing. What i am looking for is to log into a user account he created for me remotely, and have access to the gui, without interfering with what he is doing. – aamiri – 2012-09-20T15:46:12.333
2I think screensharing is what you want, but unfortunately the "share the screen of a separate user account on a remote machine without affecting the currently logged in user" feature is only available in Lion. From the article I linked to: "In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, the built-in Screen Sharing feature, updated from 1.1.1 to version 1.3, now allows remote users to log into a separate user account from the one that is currently logged in. That means that while one user is logged into a machine, a second user can login to the same machine remotely, seeing their own desktop and user environment." – Nick – 2012-09-20T15:51:16.430