Quite often corporate networks will have restrictions that prevent you from using them with your personal system. Sometimes, only systems that have been imaged by an IT department are allowed on a domain, with others being restricted via MAC address filtering (among other methods) from even connecting. However, you may find yourself having worked on projects using your personal laptop, and then needing to either access a printer or copy files to network resources at work. While using USB drives is the preferred approach for this, depending on your network setup you may be able to get yourself onto the network. Continue reading
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How to access your Mac’s printer from anywhere
If you have a printer at home or at work that is configured with a Mac Mini, iMac, Mac Pro or other Mac that you have as a desktop workstation, then you might have found you can share the system’s configured printer to have it work as a print server. This will allow you to easily print from any system connected to the local network; however, in addition you can use this to print to your printer from practically anywhere on the internet. Continue reading
How to remote login to your Mac with SSH
Both administrators and power users who are used to configuring unix-based systems via the terminal will be right at home when using OS X, especially with OS X’s support for remote login that allows you to access your Mac using the Secure Shell (SSH) service that is common on many unix-based systems. However, while common, there are ways to connect with SSH that you might not know about.
Setting up access with SSH on your Mac is easy, and simply requires you check the Remote Login service in the Continue reading
How to set up and use screen sharing in OS X
Screen Sharing is a feature in your Mac that allows you to graphically view and interact with a Mac in a remote location. By logging into your Mac in this way, you will see its desktop appear on your screen just as if you were in front of it, and not only be able to use it, but also copy files to and from it. This makes Screen Sharing perhaps one of the more useful services included in OS X. Continue reading