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Disabling a Computer Screen
Sometimes you may want to control a client computer with a user at the client computer, but you don’t want the user to see what you’re doing. In such a case, you can disable the client computers screen while preserving your own view of the client computer. This is a special control mode referred to as “curtain mode.”You can change what’s “behind the curtain” and reveal it when the mode is toggled back to the standard control mode.
This feature only works with Mac OS X v.10.4 clients.
To disable a computer screen while you work:
1Control a client computer.
See “Controlling Apple Remote Desktop Clients” on page 78 or “Controlling VNC Servers” on page 82 for detailed information.
2Click the Lock Computer Screen While You Control button in the control window toolbar.
Alternatively, if you are not currently in a Control window and have added the “Control Computer in Curtain Mode” button to your toolbar, click that toolbar icon. You can also select Interact > Curtain.
Logging In a User at the Login Window
Apple Remote Desktop can log in any user on a client computer by using AppleScript System Events and the Send UNIX Command feature. Using these powerful features you can log in any number of client computers to the same user name simultaneously from the login window.
This script is for use on computers at the login screen only.
To log in a user:
This method uses the osascript command. For detailed information on osascript, see the osascript man page.
1Select a computer list in the Remote Desktop window.
2Select one or more computers in the selected computer list.
3Choose Manage > Send UNIX Command.
4Type the following AppleScript in the UNIX Command window, adding the user name and password:
osascript <<EndOfMyScript
tell application "System Events" keystroke "<user name>" keystroke tab
delay 0.5
keystroke "<password>" delay 0.5
Chapter 8 Administering Client Computers
