Just a couple of weeks back Apple announced a new version of MacOS. Called Mojave, it will be offered as an upgrade to MacBook users this fall. While the update is just for MacBooks, a Reddit user managed to port Mojave Dynamic Desktop to Windows 10.
My company has a Mac Mini that we use for iOS builds. Occasionally, one of us needs to log in to it via remote access (from a Windows PC) to update the build tools. However, ever since updating the OS to the latest MacOS Mojave, most of the time we cannot log in remotely. On any VNC client (I use VNC Viewer but have tested this with UltraVNC as.
- Remote Desktop → Mac OS X Instructions The following page(s) contain instructions on using Remote Desktop to connect to Faculty & Staff Windows computers on the UMKC campus (from off-campus). Your campus computer must be powered on to receive connections.
- Apple has had an application called Apple Remote Desktop for many years that is useful for support. Available in the Mac App Store for $79.99, Apple Remote Desktop has sadly been somewhat ignored in recent years and currently has a very low rating in the store’s reviews. Once set up, Apple Remote Desktop not only provides a way for support.
- Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) is a Macintosh application produced by Apple Inc., first released on March 14, 2002, that replaced a similar product called Apple Network Assistant. Aimed at computer administrators responsible for large numbers of computers and teachers who need to assist individuals or perform group demonstrations, Apple Remote Desktop allows users to remotely control or monitor.
The Reddit user who goes by the name “t1m0thyj” said he created the app because he loves the “Dynamic Desktop” feature of MacOS.
I’ve written a small program that ports the new Dynamic Desktop feature in macOS Mojave to Windows 10. It uses your location to get the times of sunrise and sunset each day, and rotates through the 16 Mojave wallpaper images throughout the day and night.
Windows 10 natively supports cycling between multiple wallpapers, but not based on a day and night schedule, so I wrote this app to do that. All you need to do is run it, enter your location, and close the app, then it will minimize to your system tray and change the wallpaper in the background.
I just released the first version, I’ve only gotten to test it for about a day and it’s been working well so far but may still have bugs. If anyone is interested, I’d be glad to have more people test it and give feedback about what they think.
P.S. I’m not an Apple fanboy, I just happen to like their Dynamic Desktop feature.
The app is pretty easy to use as you just need to enter your location and the app will grab the related metadata for the wallpaper cycle. If you’re interested then you can get the app and the source code from GitHub. It’s a .exe file so you can directly download and install it. Do note that the app is still in development so you might encounter some bugs or glitches. You can also follow the original Reddit Thread for more updates on the app.
Via: Windows Report
Traditionally, when an administrator has needed to enable remote screensharing access (via ARD/Apple Remote Desktop) for management purposes - in a programmatic way via the command-line or a payload-less package - it's been relatively straightforward to do so.
This is documented by Apple here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201710
However, there are many changes in the latest version of mac OS (OS X 10.14 aka 'mac OS Mojave,') and those changes appear to result in failure using Apple's own documented method. So it appears that key (previously available) aspects of enabling remote access are being impacted by Apple's intended changes in security and privacy for 10.14.
Some excellent articles about some of the new security features and restrictions in 10.14/Mojave are the following:
A great debt, thanks & credit is owed (by many) to Rich Trouton, and he has documented an alternative means of enabling ARD that - in my testing so far - appears to work:
The key commands are (for example, for an intended ARD admin), where you'll need to edit <yourARDuserShortname> to be the shortname for the user-account you intend to configure for ARD admin access - with the brackets <> . Apple ios iso download. Other levels of access (com.apple.local.ard_ groups) are listed in Rich Trouton's article, adding a user to more than one appears to not work and perhaps is intentional.
PLEASE NOTE: The script provided below is meant to be a starting point, it's (hardly) exemplary as there's no real error checking (think about a clause to handle if the group already exists, etc.). Hopefully you'll find it useful:
It's possible to add the above as a script named: postinstall (no suffix such as .sh), and proceeded with the standard
Apple Remote Desktop Client Mojave Installer
and included as part of a standard payload-less pkg installer. Other additions, elaborations and enhancements in any such script are left to the reader, the above is meant only as a potential starting-point. In terms of creating a ('payload-less') package installer to enact such a script, it's particularly easy to do so via Greg Neagle's excellent munkipkg, see: