Enable Remote Desktop on the Apple TV
Thanks to the peeps over at the excellent awkwardTV site for getting this tutorial right.
To get Apple Remote Desktop running on your Apple TV, firstly enable SSH so you can access the Apple TV easier.
SSH into your Apple TV, then run:
echo 71463E00FFDAAA95FF1C39567390ADCA > /Library/Preferences/com.apple.VNCSettings.txt
That code is is a hash of the password ‘frontrow’, which you’ll use to access Apple Remote Desktop. Next you need to get the application going, for which you can use these commands:
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -configure -clientopts -setvnclegacy -vnclegacy yes
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -users admin -privs -all -restart -agent -menu
You may be prompted for your password after the first command.
You should be up and running, you can now use Apple Remote Desktop, if you have it, or the free Chicken of the VNC app to access your Apple TV remotely.
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May 9th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I am using 2.0.2 OS
May 9th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
-bash-2.05b$ sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -users admin -privs -all -restart -agent -menu
Password:
sudo: /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart: command not found
-bash-2.05b$
I ssh into aTV but cannot find kickstart on my aTV. can someone help?
April 7th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
By the way - if you’re in a situation where you HAVE TO GET INTO a Leopard machine and you’re lucky enough to have ssh access, this will work there, too. Thank you very much.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:25 am
My ATV is running 1.x (1.3 I think?), not the new ATV 2.0.1 released this weekend. I have managed to setup ARD access over my wifi from my PowerMac G5 with ARD 3.2. I used the SSH commands Nick D suggested. I can see the screen output from the ATV on my G5!
Has anyone setup keyboard/mouse over ARD yet? If so, could you please post the link here?
February 18th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I’m trying to enable ARD on my 1.1 ATV, but the RemoteManagement package seems to be missing on my system:
-bash-2.05b$ sudo find / -name *Remote*
/System/Library/StartupItems/RemoteDesktopAgent
/System/Library/StartupItems/RemoteDesktopAgent/RemoteDesktopAgent
-bash-2.05b$
Do I need to copy this package from a Tiger installation? Are there any other dependencies? The scripts in RemoteDesktopAgent make reference to the RemoteManagement package in the expected location, but the package itself is just not there. I notice the original article here is pretty old; was ARD removed in the 1.1 update?
December 29th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -users admin -privs -all -restart -agent -menu
the last command change use this
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -users frontrow -privs -all -restart -agent -menu
so user and password
frontrow/frontrow
December 14th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
@Kevin - completely off topic & probably a month too late…
Pull the drive from your apple tv, mount it on your desktop (via an external USB case) and copy the files off. There might be others ways to do it, but that should work.
November 17th, 2007 at 7:35 am
I have photos on my apple tv and did a clean install of leopard on my mac book pro now I can’t sync back to it without erasing my photos. Can anyone help me get my photos back on my mac.