Disabling the client software in macosx 10.2 – Apple Remote Desktop User Manual
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Setting Up
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To set administration privileges on each computer:
1
On the client computer, open System Preferences and click Apple Remote Desktop.
If necessary, enter the user name and password of a user with administrator privileges
on that computer.
2
To activate the ARD client, make sure to select “Make Apple Remote Desktop active on
this computer.”
3
Select the checkbox of each user account that you want enabled for ARD.
4
Select a listed user whose access privileges you want to change, and then make the
changes you want to the access privileges. Your changes take effect immediately.
See “User Privileges and Permissions Security” on page 50 for more information.
5
Repeat for additional users whose access privileges you want to change.
6
If you wish, enter information in any or all of the four Computer Information fields.
This information appears in ARD System Overview reports. For example, you can enter
an inventory number for the computer, a serial number, or a user’s name and
telephone number.
Disabling the Client Software in Mac OS X 10.2
You may want to temporarily disable Apple Remote Desktop on a Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
client without removing the software.
To disable the client software on a Jaguar client computer:
1
On the client computer, open System Preferences and click Apple Remote Desktop.
If necessary, enter the user name and password of a user with administrator privileges
on that computer.
2
Deselect “Make Apple Remote Desktop active on this computer.”
3
Deselect the checkbox of each user account that was enabled for ARD.
Alternatively, you can open the Terminal application and use the
kill
command to
stop first the ARDHelper process, then the ARDAgent process.
Uninstalling the Client Software From a Mac OS X 10.2 Computer
To remove Apple Remote Desktop client software from Mac OS X 10.2 clients, you need
to remove a number of software components from the client system.
Warning:
It is not recommended to uninstall the client software. Disabling the client
software is sufficient to stop ARD system activity. See “Disabling the Client Software in
Mac OS X 10.2” for instructions.