Many-to-many screen sharing
If you have more than a couple machines and need to be able to screen share to any machine from any machine, this could save you some time with not too much setup cost.
This requires that iCloud Drive be enabled on all the machines you want to link and all using the same account.
On the first machine, click on iCloud Drive in the Finder and create a new folder called “Screen Sharing“
Drag the Screen Sharing folder to the Dock
Launch the Screen Sharing app
Open connection to another machine
Choose Connection -> Save As… from the File menu
Save into the Screen Sharing folder
Drag the Screen Sharing folder to the Dock on all the other machines
On a machine other than the first, save a screen sharing connection file for the first machine so you now have a complete set
At this point, all your machines should have files to connect to all the other machines
Click on the Dock folder on any machine and choose the machine you want and the connection is kicked off
If you add more machines, this is easy to e…
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