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Hello All. I have ARD 3.2.2 Unlimited installed on my MBP and one of my Xserves (10.5.5) at school. Today I am home recovering from surgery and trying to manage a couple of issues on one of my lab machines. I connected to my Xserve and launched the ARD 3 (same version) but nothing happened. Not a beachball, just a blue dot under the app icon, but nothing else. After a few of those retries, I checked my prefs folder and I find a single RemoteDesktopAgent.plist. I checked the prefs folder on my MBPro (which has essentially the exact set of info as my ARD on my Xserve) and I see three .plists (RemoteDesktopAgent.plist, RemoteDesktop.plist, and RemoteDesktop.plist.LessTechBkup). Can these be "moved" to the Preferences on to the Xserve from home or would anyone venture a quick way to get back up and working again. I can't get to school to reinstall the software for a few days, but I am hoping to be able to manage from home if possible) My servers and machines are all behind my ASA 550 and I don't manage the appliance myself so I'm only able to manage thee machines via the ARD app via the ARD on my Xserve. I know, I need a better way to do this, but it has been enough for me so far. Thanks so much.

Holy smokes. We should try this back from the beginning. Yes, you can copy the preference files from your MBP to the XServe without any problems.
If the firewall allows, just do a Copy Files from your machine and choose the 3 preference files on your computer. Then on the Copy Items window, tell it to "Place items in" for those 3 files to "Same Relative Location".
If you aren't able to copy through ARD, do you have any sharepoints on that server that you can connect to and copy the files onto the server. Then drag and drop them into the folders they belong.
Even though you don't see a spinning beachball doesn't mean its not there. Seems like through ARD, you will rarely, if ever, see a spinning beachball. Usually it just shows the arrow cursor.
If the preferences don't fix it, just say. Maybe something in your system.log will say why the application is hanging up.

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