Apple began include screen sharing nearly 20 age ago in its Mac operating system . If you have multiple Macs in your home or billet on the same local area internet ( wired , radio , both , or even two Macs connected via Thunderbolt ) , you may follow or control another Mac on that internet . Some regular users are n’t mindful it exist because they ’ve never postulate to practice it .
It ’s not wholly obvious how to set it up or get at it as it involve changes on both the Mac to be share and looking in the right situation on the Mac viewing the other ’s concealment . It can be handy to apply if you have multiple Macs in different post or a Mac without a keyboard and black eye used as part of a abode A / V system , or one bereft of head ( display ) and stimulus deployed as a host .
To typeset this up on the Mac that can be viewed or controlled :
On any other Mac :
The other Mac will have “ Your screen door is being find ” or two overlap rectangle in the system bar to indicate remote sharing .
If you do n’t see the Mac you want to view in the Sidebar , in the Finder of that data processor chooseFinder > Preferencesand ensure you have “ Bonjour electronic computer ” checked under “ Show these items in the sidebar . ”
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