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Remote Buddy does not require any third party software to be usable
(except OS X itself, of course).
You need to activate the AJAX Remote before using it. Please see the
iPhone / iPod Touch subpage for a quick, 4 step instruction. Please
also make sure that
- both your Mac and your iPhone are booked into the same WLAN (mixed
LAN/WLAN constructs will also work, but you'll need to know your
network, your IPs and make sure routing is intact yourself)
- you are entering the URLs exactly as presented by Remote Buddy
(including http:// *and* :8888 *and* the trailing slash)
- if you are using the OS X Firewall, you have defined an exception
rule for port 8888 (some users reported their OS 10.5 Firewall to not
work as they want it to - they had to turn it off completely to
connect to any service (including, but not limited to the AJAX Remote,
Screen and File Sharing, etc.))
And that's really it. Remote Buddy provides its service as plain HTTP
server on port 8888 of the system as long as it runs. That's all it
can do.
Your network needs to be configured and routed properly to allow
connections between your Mac and your iPhone/iPod Touch. The easiest
way to achieve this is being logged into your WLAN base station with
both your Mac and your iPhone / iPod Touch. Anything else is prone to
lead to the use of two different local subnet IP ranges, which can
make establishing connections between two devices impossible, if
traffic isn't routed properly between the two. Debugging and
configuring such complex network setups is beyond what can be handled
in the scope of support for this product, though.
Best regards,
Felix Schwarz
