Your friend is right in saying that it can be enabled via SSH, but in Leopard Server I haven't been able to use ARD at all with the standard install. If you enable it, it cuts off screen sharing, but doesn't allow you to use ARD.

After spending a couple hours with Apple Support, they finally just wondered if it was a bug and suggested using the Advanced install if you want to use ARD.

(If someone knows how to get ARD working with Standard, I'll gladly recant this hint.)

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I think the issue has to do with the accounts the "Standard" install creates. If you open up the accounts prefpane, you'll find that it's created a user that you're most likely logged in as "Local Administrator".

If you attempt to ARD using that user name and the password you setup I believe it should work.

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sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -restart -agent -privs -all

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To follow on from the comment about the default Local Admin user, once ARD is enabled via SSH, you can login using short name: localadmin. The password for this user will be the same as your original server administrator user you created during installation.

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