Finding and Adding Clients to Apple Remote Desktop Computer Lists
Before you can audit, control, or maintain any client, you need to add it to an Apple Remote Desktop computer list. To use Bonjour to discover computers on your local subnet, your local network's routers and firewalls must allow multicast DNS (mDNS) packets on port 5353. To find computers that aren't on the local subnet, your local network's routers and firewalls must be properly configured to pass network pings, and TCP/UDP packets on ports 3283 and 5900.
Remote Desktop has five methods for discovering potential clients:
- Discovering clients on the local subnet (using Bonjour instead of network pings)
- Searching the local networks (found through using all available network interfaces)
- Searching a range of IP addresses
- Using a specific IP address or domain name
- Importing a list of IP addresses
Once you have found a potential client, you see the following default information:
| Search column | Description |
|---|---|
| (none) | Displays a small icon indicating whether the computer is already in the All Computers List. |
| (none) | Displays a small icon showing what kind of access the client is capable of. See Client Status Icons. |
| Name | The name given to the computer in the Sharing pane of System Preferences. |
| IP Address | The computer's IP address, if any. |
| DNS Name | The computer's DNS name, found by reverse lookup, if any. |
| ARD Version | client software version. |
| Network Interface | Which interface the client responded through. |
If you want to change the default display list for the scanner, you can select Edit > View Options and choose any of the other available options (which include Computer Info Fields, Ethernet ID, Label, or others).
To add a computer to a computer list, you first authenticate to the computer. Authenticated computers are found in the All Computers list in the Remote Desktop window. You can add a computer to the All Computers list without authenticating, but you will be unable to administer the client until you provide a valid user name and password.
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