teleport is a simple prefpane utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs. Simply reach the edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your other Mac! The pasteboard can even be synchronized between the computers.
It uses Bonjour to find available hosts. For controlling them, it catches the events of the master computer, sends me on the network using TCP, and uses some native CoreGraphics calls on the slave computer.
What's New
Version 1.1.1:
fix file transfers.
fix crashes after changing options on a remote host.
Works perfectly between an iMac G5 running Leo and iMac Intel running SL (through Ethernet).
The only small problem I have from time to time is that, if I'm moving the mouse too fast Teleport thinks I'm already on the other screen when actually I'm blocked on the main screen (I have to switch it off and on to have it working again).
This little annoyance is less frequent when setting a delay in the prefs.
This used to work great, but has stopped working for me with a MBP with Lion trying to control a G5 with Tiger. The two machines just don't see each other at all. They see other services ok (like afp)
I use a lot of great software on my Mac, but I can unequivocally state this may be one of my most used and most important installs on my Macs. I know I could live without it... but I sure as heck wouldn't want to. This is GREAT!
ROCKS! I had been using 2 keyboards and 2 tragic macpads to control my MB Air and MacPro, now I can seamlessly control both from the Air. THANKS! (both machines running Lion)
I have just installed Teleport 1.1 for the very first time on my 27" iMac running Lion, as well as on an old G4 mini-tower running Tiger 10.4.11.
While the prefspane is properly installed on the Tiger machine, I am getting the very same error -- Preferences Error - Could not load teleport -- as other people when I click on the Teleport prefspane in the System Preferences app window. As such, I cannot even access the preferences for Teleport on the Tiger machine. Even though I don't have the firewall enabled on the Tiger machine, I went ahead and added the two required ports, and the box is checked.
I have no problem accessing the Teleport prefspane on the Lion machine. The problem just occurs on the Tiger machine. Even rebooting the G4 and reinstalling the Teleport prefspane does not help. The error still persists.
Any suggestions from the developer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! It seems like a very cool app, if it will just work.
Well, I have just met with partial success. The problem is that I had to install version 1.0.1 on the Tiger machine instead of 1.1, which is for Lion only. Once I did that, I can now access Teleport's preferences in the System Preferences app on the Tiger machine, and its icon is now displaying in my menu bar on the Tiger machine as well.
However, sadly, it appears that running 1.1 on my iMac with Lion, and 1.0.1 on my G4 mini-tower with Tiger, does not work. Even when I enable "Share This Mac" on both machines, neither Teleport prefspane shows the other machine in the configuration window.
Even if I just enable "Share This Mac" on the Tiger machine only so that it is the slave, my iMac still does not recognize it.
These two machines are on our LAN. All of our machines connect to a router with ethernet cables, and the router is in turn connected to our cable modem.
So, unless the developer can make this kind of a setup compatible -- 1.1 on one machine, and 1.0.1 on another machine -- I suppose I have reached a dead end. :(
Has anyone else managed to get 1.0.1 on an older machine to communicate with 1.1 on a newer machine?
I just wanted to add an update to my previous posts. I have discovered a new problem.
If I run 1.0.2 on my Lion machine and 1.0.1 on my Tiger machine, with my Tiger machine as the slave, while Teleport does work now, there is one major issue: using the shift key on my Lion key does not translate into the proper characters on my Tiger machine. In other words, it is as if the shift key does not even exist.
For example, if I do shift-2, instead of getting the "@" symbol on the Tiger machine, I still get a 2. This happens with every single key on the keyboard when I try to use the shift key on my Lion machine. As such, I can't produce any uppercase letters or special symbols on my Tiger machine when I use Teleport on my Lion machine. I haven't tried the option key or any other modifier keys.
Great alternative to Synergy but we really need the ability to connect to the "master" control mac by specifying a direct IP address instead of relying upon Bonjour. For example: I can use synergy to connect a macbook that is on wireless and VPN to a mac mini that is on a local ethernet connection, but I cannot use Teleport in the same way because it relies upon Bonjour.
Still not working with Lion. The developer is working on a 1.1 version, which many of us seem to be keen for. Hopefully it comes out soon because I'm having trouble finding an app that will do this with Lion!
I am replying to myself because after fiddling with this and others for a couple of hours I've gotten it to work with two computers running Lion!!!
The trick is starting them both and then on the computer you want to share with your main computer you need to select "share this mac" from the menu bar, NOT within the preference pane. For some reason toggling the preference pane button doesn't make it work.
Great app, using it between my MacBook pro and iMac, works great. Even works when wife is on iMac and I am on MacBook, suddenly get someone grabbing the mouse! :-)
This works great, except there are two bugs that bother me quite a bit. First, the mouse occaisionally will dissappear on the controling computer. Click will make it reappear, but it is still quite annoying as you can imagine. Second, when double tap is enabled, moving the mouse to the top of the screen and clicking causes the foreground window to move into the background instead of click on the menubar as expected.
I control my Powerbook 1.5GHz 12" with my G5 2x2GHz and the only thing which I still find buggy is when I try to use the dock on my Powerbook. Most of the time the Dock doesn't react with the mouse. Apart from that: spot on!
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teleport is a simple prefpane utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs. Simply reach the edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your other Mac! The pasteboard can even be synchronized between the computers.
It uses Bonjour to find available hosts. For controlling them, it catches the events of the master computer, sends me on the network using TCP, and uses some native CoreGraphics calls on the slave computer.
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Aargl reviewed on 10 May 2012
The only small problem I have from time to time is that, if I'm moving the mouse too fast Teleport thinks I'm already on the other screen when actually I'm blocked on the main screen (I have to switch it off and on to have it working again).
This little annoyance is less frequent when setting a delay in the prefs.
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Jude.farry reviewed on 08 Feb 2012
Btdpi007 reviewed on 01 Feb 2012
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Mikofox reviewed on 09 Nov 2011
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Sferic reviewed on 23 Sep 2011
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While the prefspane is properly installed on the Tiger machine, I am getting the very same error -- Preferences Error - Could not load teleport -- as other people when I click on the Teleport prefspane in the System Preferences app window. As such, I cannot even access the preferences for Teleport on the Tiger machine. Even though I don't have the firewall enabled on the Tiger machine, I went ahead and added the two required ports, and the box is checked.
I have no problem accessing the Teleport prefspane on the Lion machine. The problem just occurs on the Tiger machine. Even rebooting the G4 and reinstalling the Teleport prefspane does not help. The error still persists.
Any suggestions from the developer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! It seems like a very cool app, if it will just work.
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However, sadly, it appears that running 1.1 on my iMac with Lion, and 1.0.1 on my G4 mini-tower with Tiger, does not work. Even when I enable "Share This Mac" on both machines, neither Teleport prefspane shows the other machine in the configuration window.
Even if I just enable "Share This Mac" on the Tiger machine only so that it is the slave, my iMac still does not recognize it.
These two machines are on our LAN. All of our machines connect to a router with ethernet cables, and the router is in turn connected to our cable modem.
So, unless the developer can make this kind of a setup compatible -- 1.1 on one machine, and 1.0.1 on another machine -- I suppose I have reached a dead end. :(
Has anyone else managed to get 1.0.1 on an older machine to communicate with 1.1 on a newer machine?
Thanks!
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If I run 1.0.2 on my Lion machine and 1.0.1 on my Tiger machine, with my Tiger machine as the slave, while Teleport does work now, there is one major issue: using the shift key on my Lion key does not translate into the proper characters on my Tiger machine. In other words, it is as if the shift key does not even exist.
For example, if I do shift-2, instead of getting the "@" symbol on the Tiger machine, I still get a 2. This happens with every single key on the keyboard when I try to use the shift key on my Lion machine. As such, I can't produce any uppercase letters or special symbols on my Tiger machine when I use Teleport on my Lion machine. I haven't tried the option key or any other modifier keys.
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Radiorhaeem reviewed on 22 Sep 2011
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The trick is starting them both and then on the computer you want to share with your main computer you need to select "share this mac" from the menu bar, NOT within the preference pane. For some reason toggling the preference pane button doesn't make it work.
Awesome, seems to be completely working now!!!
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HarryG205 reviewed on 04 Jul 2011
Really helps when working on 2 machines though.
Thanks
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My main machine is a MacBook Pro running 10.4.11
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Yoursort rated on 22 Jan 2012
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spacestation rated on 20 Nov 2011
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Jef4 rated on 07 Nov 2011
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Jef4 rated on 22 Sep 2011
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Badgerone rated on 22 Sep 2011
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Rains1026 rated on 02 Dec 2010