"I need to test something on a Mac real quick", as solved by AWS EC2

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Remmina

Next up, we need some sort of VNC client on our workstation. I strongly recommend Remmina if you value not spending your time debugging and configuring things. Just select "VNC" from the main connection bar's dropdown, punch in localhost:5900, and hit enter. An authentication screen will pop up: fill it with ec2-user for the username, and whatever password you provided to dscl earlier.

#Remote Desktop #Remote PC Access #Remote Control 28 social mentions

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Homebrew

While the box comes with a few useful things such as Homebrew out of the box, such exploration is mostly left as an exercise to the reader depending on what they actually want to accomplish with the instance. If you're only interested in CLI access to the box, you're done with setup and can head down to the Teardown Notes below. For the rest of us looking for GUI access, read on.

#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 877 social mentions