Control many mac minis with one magic mouse

Hello,
I have installation with four macminis mounted to ceiling,
I want to control and setup each of them without buying four magic mouses and keyboards.
Is it possible to use only one magic mouse and magic keyboard to control all macminis?
If not, is there any good solution for that?
Thank you.

Sure, turn on screem sharing under System Preferences -> Sharing. Then, connect to each of them using finder and share screen. So, one KB, one mouse, many minis. Monitor would be connected to the same machine that the KB and MOUSE are connected to.

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