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Apple Remote Desktop uses lists of client computers to
logically organize the client computers under your control.
Connecting to client computers on the network and adding
them to your list is necessary to administer them.
This chapter describes nding clients and organizing them into lists for Apple Remote
Desktop administration and user interaction. You can learn about:
“ Â Finding and Adding Clients to Apple Remote Desktop Computer Lists” on page 53
“ Â Making and Managing Lists” on page 60
“ Â Importing and Exporting Computer Lists” on page 63
Finding and Adding Clients to Apple Remote Desktop
Computer Lists
Before you can audit, control, or maintain any client, you need to add it to an Apple
Remote Desktop computer list. You can use Bonjour to discover computers on your
local subnet, if your local network’s routers and rewalls allow multicast DNS (mDNS)
packets on port 5353. To nd computers that aren’t on the local subnet, your local
network’s routers and rewalls must be congured to pass network pings, and TCP/
UDP packets on ports 3283 and 5900. If your local network’s routers and rewalls use
Network Address Translation (NAT), you must know the public ports that are mapped
to client computers’ remote management and screen sharing ports.
Remote Desktop has six methods for discovering potential clients:
Discovering clients on the local subnet (using Bonjour instead of network pings) Â
Searching the local networks (found through using all available network interfaces) Â
Searching a range of IP addresses Â
Using a specic IP address or domain name Â
Importing a list of IP addresses Â
Listing all clients known by the task server Â
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Organizing Client Computers into
Computer Lists