NickNameless22
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I am working on a remote access solution so that I can get into my office from home or the road and control the environment as I do when sitting at my desk.
My work environment is 99% Mac OS X. I use Apple Remote Desktop to do just about everything. For the few devices that don't like to play nice with OS X, I use Parallels and access them via the virtual machine, typically with some kind of Web Browser control.
One of these devices that I need to interact with is my Netscreen Firewall. There is no VPN client for OS X, and so in order to create a VPN from the road I need to use a windows virtual machine. I can make the connection fine. The networking environment segregates at that time, which is nice in it's own way. OS X continues to recognize the network environment it is in, and the Virtual Machine acts like it is on my LAN.
Here is where I am mildly stuck: Apple Remote Desktop does not show up as a shared application within the virtual machine. If I could launch ARD as a shared application from within the virtual machine, I would be cooking with gas and controlling my work environment as if I were in the building.
The Questions: Is there some kind of incompatibility that keeps Remote Desktop from running as a shared app? Do I have an option other than monkeying around with VNC apps to see if I can get one to work, and then having to reconfigure my entire network of workstations to play nicely with it?
FYI, I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and Parallels Build 5.0.9220, and Windows version 5.1 XP Professional SP3
Parallels require me to buy support. Sure, I bought and installed the product 45ish days ago. 30 days to ask a question if it comes up is not good. Just completed the install and upgrade this past week.
EDIT TO ADD: Apple Remote Desktop is not available in the Start>Parallels Shared Applications menu as the poster below suggests, but in addition if I try to navigate to the app to launch it, XP is not seeing it as something that's executable.
My work environment is 99% Mac OS X. I use Apple Remote Desktop to do just about everything. For the few devices that don't like to play nice with OS X, I use Parallels and access them via the virtual machine, typically with some kind of Web Browser control.
One of these devices that I need to interact with is my Netscreen Firewall. There is no VPN client for OS X, and so in order to create a VPN from the road I need to use a windows virtual machine. I can make the connection fine. The networking environment segregates at that time, which is nice in it's own way. OS X continues to recognize the network environment it is in, and the Virtual Machine acts like it is on my LAN.
Here is where I am mildly stuck: Apple Remote Desktop does not show up as a shared application within the virtual machine. If I could launch ARD as a shared application from within the virtual machine, I would be cooking with gas and controlling my work environment as if I were in the building.
The Questions: Is there some kind of incompatibility that keeps Remote Desktop from running as a shared app? Do I have an option other than monkeying around with VNC apps to see if I can get one to work, and then having to reconfigure my entire network of workstations to play nicely with it?
FYI, I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 and Parallels Build 5.0.9220, and Windows version 5.1 XP Professional SP3
Parallels require me to buy support. Sure, I bought and installed the product 45ish days ago. 30 days to ask a question if it comes up is not good. Just completed the install and upgrade this past week.
EDIT TO ADD: Apple Remote Desktop is not available in the Start>Parallels Shared Applications menu as the poster below suggests, but in addition if I try to navigate to the app to launch it, XP is not seeing it as something that's executable.
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