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- [Allison] Hi, this is Allison Sheridan
and welcome to another edition
of ScreenCastsOnline.
Today we're going to learn
about a remote desktop application
called Jump Desktop from jumpdesktop.com.
Remote desktop applications allow you
to control one computer from another
from within a network
or even from outside of the network.
Jump Desktop works on the Mac,
iPad, iPhone, Windows and Android.
For this tutorial we'll be focusing
on the Mac and iOS devices
but it's great that Jump Desktop
is cross platform.
You might be wondering what kind of problems
you can solve with an application
like Jump Desktop.
Let's say you have an iPad
but you need to do something on your Mac.
With Jump Desktop, you can connect to your Mac
from inside your home network,
or from anywhere in the world,
and have full control of the Mac
right from the iPad.
It's like having the best of both worlds
when you're only carrying the iPad.
Let's say you have a Mac
but you'd like to control other Macs.
Maybe you have a headless Mac mini running Plex.
You can log in your Mac mini
using another Mac, and have full control
as though you're sitting right in front of it.
Perhaps you do remote support
for friends and family or for your business.
Jump Desktop will allow you to log in
and control other computers
from your Mac, iPad, or even your iPhone.
Jump encrypts the connection between computers
to ensure privacy and security.
Automatic connections
are always encrypted by default.
We're going to be talking
about two distinct applications here.
One is called Jump Desktop,
and this is the application that is required
to allow you to control other computers
from either your Mac, or your iPad, or your iPhone.
This is a paid for app.
Separate from that there's an app
called Jump Desktop Connect.
This is an application you put
on computers you want to control
from your own devices.
This is a free app and we'll walk through
why it's there, and the function that it provides.
Jump Desktop for macOS is available
for $29.99 USD either from the Mac App Store
or you can get it directly from jumpdesktop.com.
Jump Desktop is also available
with your Setapp subscription from setapp.com.
Jump Desktop for iOS is $14.99 USD
and of course it's in the iOS App Store.
We need to understand a few terms
before we get started in the tool Jump Desktop.
The first is RDP.
This stands for Remote Desktop Protocol,
and this is Microsoft's proprietary protocol
that they've built into Windows Server
and Windows Professional.
This is not a core feature of Windows Home.
We will be ignoring RDP altogether
because we're not talking about Windows today.
The next protocol is called VNC,
and that stands for Virtual Network Computing.
This is an open source standard
for remote desktop.
It's easy to use within the local network
with Jump Desktop but accessing VNC
outside the local network in a secure way,
encrypted, actually requires
very advanced networking skills.
You need to set up a VPN
and do port forwarding,
and/or set up an SSH server.
Well beyond what most users want to do.
We will take a look at VNC
but the real excitement will come in
when we take a look at Fluid.
Fluid is Jump's own remote desktop protocol.
It's encrypted so it's safe
to use across the internet.
It also adapts for the best user experience
depending on your network speed
and it can adapt real time.
in order to create a Fluid connection,
it does require Jump Desktop Connect
on the remote computer.
As I mentioned before, that's free
so you can instal it on
as many computers as you need.
Okay, that's enough vocabulary words.
Let's start using Jump Desktop.
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I'm on a 9.7-inch iPad Pro
and I've done a simple search
for Jump Desktop in the App Store.
I've already installed it so let me tap Open.
When Jump first opens
you'll see a gear in the upper left
that will allow us to change some settings.
We have two options for how to list out
the machines that we've connected to
that we've saved but we don't have any yet.
On the right-hand side you'll see a plus,
and that's to add a saved connection.
But right now we're gonna start with Quick Connect
where we're just gonna enter some information
and attempt to connect.
Let me tap the eyeball.
You'll see that this has defaulted the type to VNC,
and that's what we want.
I'm gonna try to connect
to a 12-inch MacBook on my network.
I know the IP address,
and I will type that in in a moment,
but I'm actually gonna show you
how this will fail.
And it's an important lesson
to know what you need to do
to get it to work on your network.
So opening the IP address now,
and I'll tap Connect.
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