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Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) has been updated adding support for Mac OS X Leopard, as well as several new features. more

[OM_user]

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OS Version column in computer lists now correctly identifies computers running Mac OS X 10.4.10

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Ah, thank you Apple! I thought I was losing my mind when after i updated a bunch of the client systems to 10.4.10, ARD kept showing them as 10.4.9. I guess ARD 3 was never engineered with Mac OS X going past x.x.9 in mind. It's a minor thing, but glad to see that was fixed.
Looking forward to the other improvements too.

[pdmarsh]

Except that my ARD 3.2 still displays 10.4.9, even after the update, rebooting, and rescanning of the network to update its database. I wonder if we need Leopard to see the correct OS version displayed properly?
I'll be updating another office computer to 10.4.10 today, so I'll see if a brand new update posts correctly with Tiger.
Update: After updating another laptop to 10.4.10 AND updating the Apple Remote Desktop Client to 3.2.1, it showed up properly as 10.4.10 in the Apple Remote Desktop application.

[michaelant]

This update has solved the problem of incorrect status showing for client computers. Seems like I can actually use it now for more than a minute w/o having to relaunch if I needed to do remote installs or copy files or etc.
I must have a "slow network" here... that was one of the fixes listed, better functioning on leisurely networks.

[Machound]

Can anybody help me with a decision regarding ARD? I'm in charge of troubleshooting my father's MacBook Pro from a thousand miles away. I use Chicken of the VNC everyday for our four-Mac home LAN, but I've never used CotVNC to manage a computer 1000 miles away & behind a firewall.
What are the merits of ARD that would warrant its use in this situation, versus figuring out how to do the same job with CotVNC?
Thanks in advance.