What is the best iMessage account to attach to another machine?

What is the best iMessage account to use so that I can attach to someone else machine in order to help them? I have Google, Aim, Bonjour and me.com and they are enabled. I am getting the camera in the "Buddies" dialogue box and I put the accounts in another person's machine but we can't connect.

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Jan 30, 2016 8:01 AM

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Jan 31, 2016 1:07 PM in response to hvail

Hi,


The app is called Messages

One account is called iMessages.


At present this tends to be the most successful.

What it in fact does is use the Screen Sharing App (the same way it invokes FaceTime do do Video Chats)


At both ends go to System Preferences > Sharing and enable the Screen Sharing option for Anyone.


In the App start a iMessages text chat then select Detail top right and then the interlocked rectangles.

The two apps should manage the connection from here.




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9:06 pm Sunday; January 31, 2016


 iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

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