Can apple remote desktop work over the internet?

Yes.

Open ports 5900 & 3283 on your firewall and forward them to the internal IP address of the mac you want to control. Specifics on how to do this will vary firewall to firewall so consult the documentation that came with your firewall.

Before posting it's a good idea to browse Apple's discussion forum for answers. This particular forum has the answer to your question because it's one that has been asked many, many, many times.

Tony

if your trying to access one computer over the internet. you don't need ARD, you can use apple's build-in VNC program. (go to dock, click on finder, go to menu bar, click go, chose connect to server, type in vnc://address . BUT you would still need to configure your firewall/router.

OR juse use a serivce like logmein.com . Then you don't have to configure your firewall. You don't have to worry about your IP address changing. If you use the payed vertion it also has AUDIO. (some thing ARD/VNC dose not currently do)

that works smooth! thx

logmein is only availiable for money starting 2014

at the same time it is a bit irrelevant to use 3rd party apps if you have so called "white ip" and you have puchased ARD, everything else is build-it.

teamviewer could be a solution in any other case, still ARD works faster and lighter

just ports transfer and switching on remote management or screen sharing in the settings - the best solution

I have just started using ARD - it seems faster than plain old Screen Sharing -

Any idea why it is faster?

I was using Teamviewer which was faster than screen sharing - again I wonder why?

Next week I will be able to test the speed of TV against ARD.

Thx!!! VNC Works perfect!🙂

Will it work if I will try to access it from another country?

It depends on the type of way of how your remote computer connected to the internet.

If you haver an external IP address there should everything fine

If not, you must have or play a little bit with other applications and system settings, not just 'on-click' solution, yet it's possible

I set everything up in the US, went to another country and ofcourse nothing works. Connected 2 macs I brought with me, some things changed automatically, but cannot access macs in the US ((

Paid for ARD - still not working, checked all IPs and other parameters - everything is fine, matches and cannot figure out what the problem is. Would give up, if would not pay for ARD (

If anyone has step by step instraction for setting up ARD would really appreciate it!

Well. have you tried to reach you remote computer form the internet before leaving? Any place out of you home network are good: internet cafe or your friends house or something like this/

ARD does it well. I can connect my computers in London and Moscow even I'm in Brazil or Hong Kong.

There is def problem with your settings in the system, network devices. Do you know how to use ARD, btw?

No, I did not. I just established connection through vnc local network. Then from another coutnry I installed ARD and still cannot figure out how to set it up.

I don't know how to use ARD or how to set it up. Apparently, everything I have read and have done did not help.

I was reading ARD guide, but some of the options are not available.

Well, if you have white ip and you want to connect form the internet you should go to "Scanner tab" choose "Network address" in the list then type there ip address of your computer. That's it.

It that doesn't work then there must be a problem with you local network. First you must set up port forwarding on your WiFi router (is it done?) if you using router at home.

Try to ping your ip from the command panel.

This tutorial helped me so much. I recommend taking a look at it!

https://youtu.be/RhmrvysymFY