08-30-2010, 05:26 AM

Hi,

I am very new to Mac. Just curios to know this: I have a single Mac MINI, which four of our friends want to access simultaneously from PC (not mac). Is it possible?

We have been doing so on PCs where we used Putty for accessing a server. This way we were able to cut hugely in terms of cost as we installed expensive softwares and hardware only on one system, (but we accessed it from many).

Thanking you in advance.

openglguy

08-30-2010, 06:35 AM

Mac 101: File sharing

08-30-2010, 09:49 AM

Putty is a telnet/ssh client. Usually - you would ssh somewhere and run programs on that server. You can turn on ssh on the mac as well
SSH’ing Into Your Mac | Mac Tricks And Tips

You can also VNC to your mac as well
A VNC server is included in Mac OS X 10.4+ | Energy Aware

What programs are you trying to run? If you are trying to setup your machine as a server - you probably want to get snow leopard server.
A review of the Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server

08-30-2010, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by IvanLasston

Putty is a telnet/ssh client. Usually - you would ssh somewhere and run programs on that server. You can turn on ssh on the mac as well
SSH’ing Into Your Mac | Mac Tricks And Tips

You can also VNC to your mac as well
A VNC server is included in Mac OS X 10.4+ | Energy Aware

What programs are you trying to run? If you are trying to setup your machine as a server - you probably want to get snow leopard server.
A review of the Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server

Thanks for your answers. Well I will be doing objective C and using OpenGL. Basically I want to venture into iPad application development. So what should be the solution in this case.