Can you remote desktop into a mac

By submitting your email, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. There are free solutions — including one built into your Mac. To enable screen sharing, click the Apple icon on the menu bar at the top of your screen and select System Preferences.

This control panel will inform you how you can connect. If you have another Mac on the local network, you can open a Finder window, look in the Shared section of the sidebar, select the computer you want to control, and click Share Screen.

Click the Computer Settings button to set a password. If you have another Mac, you can set up Screen Sharing to work over the Internet without needing any other software. If you want to connect over the Internet from another device, we recommend you use one of the below, easy-to-use alternatives to Screen Sharing.

LogMeIn recently discontinued their free remote desktop access program, but TeamViewer is still around and offering this feature for free. You can use TeamViewer in several different ways — set it up to be always listening with a password, or just fire it up on your Mac and use the temporary login details when you want to use it.

If you already use Chrome, you may want to give the Google-created Chrome Remote Desktop extension a try. An authentication box will appear where you will need to enter the simple password you created in the Sharing preferences on your Mac. Once logged in, your Mac desktop will now appear in the VNC Viewer window in the same state as you left it.

If you mouse to the top-middle of the window, you can spawn extra controls, which when you hover will give you a tooltip explaining what each one does. On the Mac side of things, a Screen Sharing icon will appear in the menu bar. This lets you quickly and easily access the Screen Sharing preferences or disconnect clients.

The password can be one to eight characters. To be honest, we almost never mess with these. Screen sharing from Windows to Mac seems to work just fine as it is. This little toolbar will let you do stuff like close the connection, go to full-screen, and more.