Introduction to Look@Me, from Farallon Communications, Inc.
Look@Me is a small Macintosh application that lets you look at the desktop of another computer running Look@Me or Timbuktu Pro, a full-featured remote communication product also from Farallon Communications. Look@Me requires MacTCP 2.0.6 (or Open Transport TCP/IP 1.1 or later) and a TCP/IP-compatible network such as the Internet.
For additional Look@Me information, use your Web browser to open the following address:
Important: Look@Me should NOT be installed on a Macintosh that already has Timbuktu Pro installed. Doing so replaces Timbuktu Pro with Look@Me.
To install Look@Me:
1. Make sure that the Installer application is located in a folder titled Look@Me.
2. Double-click the Installer icon.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions.
After installation is complete and your Macintosh has been restarted, you’ll see a new icon on the right side of your menu bar. This icon (one "classic" Macintosh in front of another) is Look@Me's Connections menu. It contains the four Look@Me commands:
Open Look@Me, which opens Look@Me;
Show Activity Log, which displays a history of your Look@Me activity;
Disconnect Current Users, which immediately disconnects any users that are looking at your desktop; and
Clear Recent Users, which clears the list of past Look@Me user names.
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Using Look@Me
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To observe the desktop of a remote computer:
Note: The computer you’re observing must also be running Look@Me or Timbuktu Pro and must have the curtains open (Observe privilege enabled for guests in Timbuktu Pro).
1. Open Look@Me by selecting the Open Look@Me command from the Connections menu. You can also open Look@Me by double-clicking the Look@Me icon, which is installed in the "Timbuktu Pro ƒ" folder.
2. Type the remote computer’s TCP/IP address in the Internet address field.
3. Click the Observe button.
A window opens showing the desktop of the remote computer. The title bar of the Look@Me window contains the Macintosh Name of the remote computer (or the User Name if the remote computer is a PC).
To display more of the remote desktop, you can
-->Use the scroll bars
-->Click the full-screen button (the button that contains a diagonal arrow in the upper right corner of the window ).
-->Click the zoom box (to the right of full-screen button) to enlarge the window to its maximum size.
To end a Look@Me session that you initiated:
-->Click the close box of the Look@Me window.
To let another Look@Me user or a Timbuktu Pro user view your desktop:
1. Open Look@Me by double-clicking the Look@Me icon.
2. Click the checkbox or click the curtains icon. The curtains open to reveal a little face, and your IP address will appear beneath the checkbox. Remote Internet users can now access your Macintosh.
When a remote user requests permission to look at your Macintosh, two things happen. First, your Macintosh plays a door bell sound. Then a dialog box appears showing the names of the users that are waiting to look at your desktop.
3. You can shut out the remote user by clicking the Cancel button. That disconnects any other users in the list too.
Or you can allow the remote user(s) to begin looking at your desktop by clicking OK. The Look@Me icon in the upper right-hand corner of the menu bar changes to a face, alerting you to the presence of an observer.
To disconnect an observer:
-->Choose Disconnect Current Users from Look@Me's Connections menu.
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Monitoring current and recent users
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In the Connections menu Look@Me keeps list of users who have recently connected to your Macintosh.
To clear the names from the list:
-->Select the Clear Recent Users command from the Connection menu.
To check the history of your Look@Me activity:
-->Select the Show Activity Log command from the Connection menu.
You’ll see a list of all the users and guests who have connected to, or have attempted to connect to, your Macintosh. Each entry has the date, time, and access privilege followed by an action label--such as Begin, End, Admit, or Deny--then the network transport type, remote user name, computer name, and network address. You can open this document, located in the System:Preferences folder, as a text file with a word processor.
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Customizing Look@Me
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To change Look@Me's default behavior:
-->Select the Preferences command from the Edit menu. The Preferences dialog box opens, displaying four options:
• Support bypassing QuickDraw
Some applications such as QuickTime movies, QuickDraw GX, and many games bypass QuickDraw and draw directly to screen memory.
If you select Support bypassing QuickDraw, Look@Me reserves a portion of memory for a copy of your screen whenever one or more guests are connected to your Macintosh. Look@Me releases the reserved memory area whenever no guests are connected.
• Allow users to connect in color
Selecting this option causes Look@Me to display your screen in color on the screens of remote computers. In some cases you may want to deselect this option to require black-and-white screen-sharing, thereby speeding performance and freeing up memory.
• Connect to hosts in color when possible
Selecting this option causes Look@Me to display a remote desktop in color on your Macintosh. In some cases you may want to deselect this option to use black-and-white screen-sharing, thereby speeding performance and freeing up memory.
• Scroll control/observe window automatically
Selecting the Scroll option causes Look@Me to scroll the Look@Me window when you are looking at another computer and the remote pointer approaches the edge of the window. If you switch off autoscrolling, you can still use the scroll boxes to change your view of the remote desktop, and you can click the autoscroll button to reinstate the autoscrolling behavior.
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Troubleshooting
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Once you have installed Look@Me, you can test your installation by connecting to one of the following Farallon Timbuktu Pro Internet addresses:
looktest1.farallon.com
looktest2.farallon.com
looktest3.farallon.com
looktest4.farallon.com
looktest5.farallon.com
If Look@Me displays an alert that says "The remote computer is not responding," the cause could be one of the following situations:
• The TCP/IP address you used is invalid.
• The computer you tried to reach is not running Look@Me or Timbuktu Pro.
• You tried to connect across a network firewall that does not permit Timbuktu Pro or Look@Me access.
• You aren’t currently connected to a TCP/IP network.
Two more troubleshooting tips:
• (PowerMacs only) Look@Me will freeze when you start it if the Modern memory manager is turned off.
• If you select an observing guest in the Connected Users window and disconnect the guest, your computer will crash. Please disconnect guests from the Look@Me Connections menu instead.
