Light Screen Sharing For Mac

Light ScreenSharing is a simple OS X utility that enables you to quickly access the desktop of a remote computer in your network using OS X’s integrated Screen Sharing application. Light ScreenSharing merely offers a shortcut to connect to a remote computer via Screen Sharing.

Thus, using Light ScreenSharing requires that you and the target computer enable the Screen Sharing function from System Preferences > Sharing. All the available computers can be stored into a “Favorite” section in the app’s menu bar panel.

The main function, however, is to quickly connect to a remote desktop. To do this, you must enter the target hostname / IP address, your name as well as password from a “Quick Connect…” window.

An additional option is to set the app to automatically detect local computers using the Bonjour technology. What’s more, computers can be managed via the Preferences window. In each computer entry, you can specify the name, hostname, port, username and password.

Other features can be discovered from OS X’s Screen Sharing app, which Light ScreenSharing provides access to. For instance, you can drag and drop files from your desktop to the remote desktop in order to copy them, if the Macs are running OS X 10.7 or later.

To sum up, Light ScreenSharing provides a handy system bar menulet to quickly take control of computer desktops in your local network. It relies on VNC technology and Apple’s Screen Sharing utility, but also offers simple location management and a place to store favorite locations.