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Home Tech Support Setting Up Mac OS Mac Remote Access (Usually Mac OS 8.x)

 

MAC REMOTE ACCESS (USUALLY MAC OS 8.x)




  1. Click on the Apple Menu, then Click on Control Panels.
  2. Double Click on Remote Access.
  3. Put a Dot by Registered User.
  4. Unless the arrow in the upper left corner of the window is already pointing down, Click on it.
  5. In the field labeled Name, type in Your username.
  6. In the field labeled Password, Type in Your password.
  7. In the field labeled Number, Type in your RNS local Dial-Up number.
  8. Make sure Save password is checked.
  9. Click Options.
  10. Click on the tab labeled Redialing.
  11. Select Redial main number only in the drop-down box labled Redial.
  12. In the field labeled Redial: x times, Type in 10.
  13. In the field labeled Time between retries: x seconds, Type in 5.
  14. Click on the tab labeled Connection.
  15. Make sure only Flash icon in menu bar while connected and Disconnect if idle for 10 minutes are checked.
  16. Click on the tab labeled Protocol.
  17. In the drop down box labeled Use protocol, Select PPP.
  18. Make sure only Connect automatically when starting TCP/IP applications, Allow error compression and correction in modem, and Use TCP header compression are checked.
  19. Click OK.
  20. Exit Remote Access.
  21. When prompted to save changes, Click Save.
  22. Close Control Panels.



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