Q: What does apple remote desktop do
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Jun 25, 2016 11:26 PMby TeenTitan,You could do this with the Computers built-in tools. Ether through System Preferences Sharing Remote Management or back to my mac. But It would probable require configuring your firewall/router at home. I
it's probable easier to go with a services like logmein.com. They have a free trial. so you can try it out and see if the results are executable to you or not.
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Jun 26, 2016 3:18 PMby MrHoffman,Using iCloud with photos may be the easiest approach for this.
But as for your question, yes.
Apple Remote Desktop does allow you to see the display of your Mac, but that's the easy part of this endeavor.
The integrated screen sharing client within macOS or Back to My Mac will provide equivalent remote access, too. This because it doesn't appear you really need the various other features of the Apple Remote Desktop product. Both previously mentioned, and both good suggestions.
You'll need to establish remote access credentials and port forwarding inward through your firewall — more than a few folks are actively looking for this remote access as a way to breach your computer, too — and you'll either need static IP from your ISP and create a DNS host name, or you'll need to set up dynamic DNS, as this is how you'll be able to get the public IP address of the target system; your home Mac.
You can also find that the remote access might be slow or flaky, and there can be displays artifacts in remote displays due to bandwidth limits or compression, too. This doesn't effect the images on the system, just your access to them.
As for alternatives to remote screen sharing, some folks will choose to copy the files over locally and edit them there and then push the changes back, and some others will choose to set up a server with a gallery and/or will choose to enable (and secure) remote file access. Those latter cases are close to running your own iCloud, or finding a vendor that will host it for you.
There's also using remote screen sharing services, as was mentioned in a previous reply here. That's a good suggestion and does work. Some folks aren't interested in delegating access to a screen sharing service — there have been breaches, including one recently — but this is approach quite effective, and easier than setting up your own networks for this.
It's also possible that your ISP might block remote access to the screen sharing port or file services or VPN access, either due to the ISP terms of service and service tier, or as a way to protect folks with overly-open networks against remote access. Screen sharing isn't the most common of these ports that get blocked, but ISPs can and do make different choices here. Figuring out what's wrong with the configuration is part of the networking "fun" that can be here, unfortunately.
I've posted some other and sometimes longer answers (see below) that you may want to skim — but — if you head through this path — you're going learn rather more about networking and remote access and security, and about the configuration of the two networks, as well as the particular network box(es) used as your firewall(s).
