What is the difference between remote management and screen sharing

Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: PaoloT. More Less. Reply I have this question too 7 I have this question too Me too 7 Me too. All replies Drop Down menu. Loading page content. Hey Paolo, We understand you would like to remotely control a Mac with another Mac and weighing your options on the best way to do that.

Take care. For this feature to work, SSH and remote management needs to be activated. There is also a difference in how incoming screen sharing requests are handled: with "Screen Sharing" enabled, if an observer connects with a user account that's different than the one currently logged in and clicks Share Display, the user needs to confirm before the screen is shared.

With "Remote Management", the screen is immediately shared without a prompt appearing. Perhaps some settings were left over from an earlier version of MacOS, but without that all it gave me was 'Connection refused'. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors.

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