I have been resurrecting an old Mac G4 that somebody gave
us, with an eye towards deploying it as a file server to
aim Time Machine backups at. These older G4's are fairly
low power, for a non-laptop, this one draws around 40W
with 2 disk drives in it.
Anyway, in the midst of all this I discovered that the 10.4+
OS's have, built-in, screen sharing. (I have to use Chicken
of the VNC and a Vine Server to use the 10.2.8 G3 that I am
writing this on.) I wrote a little script to make a Dock-able
icon to open a control window to this server, or any other
of our Macs. I thought I'd share:
#!/bin/sh
NAME=G4Server
ADDR=1.2.3.4
P=~/Applications/$NAME.app/Contents/MacOS
mkdir -m 0755 -p $P
cat >$P/$NAME <<-EOF
#!/bin/sh
open vnc://$ADDR
exit 0
EOF
chmod +x $P/$NAME
Naturally replace the name and address with your machine's.
You do have to turn on Screen Sharing in the Preferences
Sharing panel.
I would have just put this on my web site, but I believe I
may have lost it. I am considering free/low-cost options.
Anybody have any good suggestions for a static-content site?
It looks like maybe $20/year is a reasonable aspiration for
something that might work. Half of that is a domain name.
-- Jim
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