Installation manual
Chapter 8 Administering Client Computers 11 5
Copying Files
Apple Remote Desktop makes it easy to copy items (other than the system software)
on one or more client computers.
Copying les works fastest with a small number of les. For example, ten les that are
10 KB each generally take longer than one le that is 100 KB. Consider copying a single
le archive (like a .zip or .sit le) to remote computers for faster copying. Remember
that Mac OS X applications are bundles of many smaller les. Although the application
you want to copy looks like a single le in the Finder, it may contain hundreds, or even
thousands of smaller les.
If a client computer is asleep when you attempt to copy items, Remote Desktop tries
to wake the client. If it can’t wake the client and the copy doesn’t proceed, you should
use Remote Desktop to wake the target computer, and then attempt the copy again.
If you choose to copy out to many client computers simultaneously, Remote Desktop
uses network multicasts to send the les. If there is a signicant number of multicast
networking errors, Remote Desktop tries to copy individually to each client computer.
Copy Options
Each time you copy an item to a remote computer, you have the chance to customize
the operation to allow ne-grained control of the location and le owner of the copied
le, the network bandwidth used, and what to do in case of failure or duplicate les.