Remote Desktop Question

Hi All,
I get the funny feeling at my work that the IT guy can log on and view my screen. I have heard they use a program called 'Chicken of the VNC' Does anyone know if i can tell if i am being wathced as I don't bloody like it.
I have turned off sharing etc in my firewall but is it still possible to get access to my machine to view. Are there any services etc i can look at to see if they are running which may give me a guide.
Many thanks

Hi, thanks for the response. I don't have ARD in my sytem prefernces. Also checked login items and nothing there and checked processes and nothing running showing VNC or anything.
Maybe I am just being paranoid, I was just curious if there were secret ways to get access etc.
Thanks for the help

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resources, double-click Drives, and then click Drives
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– or –
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Hi Everyone
We have a business requirement moving to 2012R2 RDSH server. I have installed a 2012R2 member servers and enabled Remote desktop licensing role. I have activated the licenses. the servers is in operational
I have deployed 3 windows 2012R2 member server "RDS1" , "RDS2" and "RDS3".
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Can I move files around on various hard drives on the remote computer?
With a UNIX mv command or by taking control of the client system and moving the files as you would if you were sitting at the client workstation, yes. ARD itself has no direct feature for moving or copying files on a client system itself.
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I didnt see a link to a "Remote Desktop" forum, so I posted here hoping to get a couple of questions answered.
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Drew
The specific link for Apple Remote Desktop is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1007
This is the link for all the Forums. Apple Remote Desktop is in the Server Section at the bottom of the 2nd Column:
http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa
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Not surprisingly there is a dedicated forum for this also:
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+" . . . is this a tool that would help obtain our goals quicker that installing all the software on each computer individually."+
Apart from the initial OS install - Yes. You can install incremental OS Updates using ARD easily and quickly. Again if you have OSX Server you can utilise it's Software Update Service to achieve the same thing quickly and easily.
If you don't have OSX Server you can by all means do this the way you're saying. You don't even need to use SuperDuper - why pay for something that can be done for free with what's already supplied? All you need is a firewire cable, target disk mode and the Restore option in Disk Utility. The more firewire cables you have the sooner you'll get it done.
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Remote Desktop - Cmd+D - save without closing question

I'm trying to write a script that will allow me to quit an application (SketchBookExpress) without saving changes. I'm having trouble with the syntax for the "Don't Save" (cmd+d). The script runs but stops at the on screen Save/Canel/Don't Save dialog box.
What I have tried is the following:
osascript -e 'tell application "SketchBookExpress" to activate';
osascript -e 'tell application "SketchBookExpress" to quit';
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delay 0.5';
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "d" using {command down}';
And I've tried:
osascript -e 'tell application "SketchBookExpress" to quit';
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delay 0.5';
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to key down command';
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to keystroke "d"';
And, I've also tried:
osascript -e 'tell application "SketchBookExpress" to quit';
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delay 0.5';
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to to keystroke "d" using {command}';
I'm very new to Remote Desktop and AppleScript and would appreciate any help you can provide about how to close an app without saving it.
Thanks.

I think you need to turn this on its head.
SketchBook Express is not scriptable, so you can't use the 'normal' method, which would be:
tell application "SketchBook Express" to quit saving no
The problem with your approach is that AppleScript is serial - each command is executed in turn, so it's waiting for the app to quit before executing the next command (unless you run all these commands in parallel, but that's a different issue.
However, there's a simpler solution to your problem:
killall SketchBookExpress
This sends the Kill command to the app, quitting it, bypassing the whole 'Save changes?' process.
This is a standard shell command, so you don't need AppleScript (or osascript) to run it. If you do want to wrap this in a larger script, just use 'do shell script':
do shell script "killall SketchBookExpress"

HT5170 About Apple Remote Desktop client 3.5.3, what is it, is the question

Seeing this - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5170?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Apple Remote Desktop client 3.5.3 is included in the OS X Lion v10.7.4 Update,
and as a standalone update for Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard clients. This update provides general OS compatibility fixes.
That's a About explanation?
I have an update waiting - not applied of course.
No Idea what it is - or what it's for.
So go to link to find out - and it's Zero result.

It's the client for this application:
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Apple bundles the client with all installations of OS X so administrators don't have to install it.
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Hi all-
OK, I am trying to set up our all-mac environment to do something in particular - but I am only 'novice' level at VPN stuff and 'noob' to the Apple Remote Desktop and Screen Sharing stuff. I already have screen sharing set up, and also have back to my mac set up - but these both seem to be 'whole computer' control methods, where the remote user takes over the entire target machine. I have a different need, but don't know what terms to use to describe it or how I might achieve it.
Environment overview:
2014 iMac, 2009 13" MacBook Pro, 2009 17" MacBook Pro - all running Yosemite.
2013 AirPort Extreme handling the LAN, both wired and wireless. iMac is wired, MacBooks are wireless.
iMac: Two users (UserA and UserB, both admins).
MPB13: Two users (UserB as admin and UserC as standard).
MBP17: Two users (UserA as admin and UserD as standard).
I am wondering if this is possible to do, and if so - HOW? :
UserB sits at the iMac, and is using it. UserA sits at MBP17 and wants to get something done on the iMac, so UserA logs into MBP17 as UserA then remotes into the iMac as UserA and does what they need to do in UserA's iMac account - without making UserB (who is still sitting at the iMac and using it) stop what they are doing.
Hope this makes sense, and am looking forward to your input.

UserA must have a user account set up on the iMac that is different from UserB. With this set up when UserA initiates a Screen Sharing session with the iMac from the MBP17 they will just need to log in with their user account. When they do that a dialog box will pop up asking if they want to share the display with the user currently using the iMac, in this case UserB, or if they want to connect to a Virtual Display, which would give them their own environment separate from UserB who is already logged in and using the iMac.
Here is an example of the dialog box UserA should see when they attempt to start a screen sharing session with another Mac in which another person is already login in and using the Mac. In this case UserA will select the option to connect to the Virtual Display which allows them to work on the iMac without disturbing the user that is already using the computer. Note that the user already using the iMac may experience a slight performance hit because two users are using the resources on the one computer.
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