I’ve already finished tons of experimentation with this and really feel largely assured I do know the reply and I’ve finished searches on right here to ensure this isn’t a replica question.
I lately changed my Mac mini 2018 with the brand new Mac mini M4. My Plex server has been operating on a Mac Professional Tower (2009) for years and it is not IF however when it provides up the ghost. So I figured I might repurpose the 2018 Mac mini to be my new Plex server with an exterior 4 drive raid field. Since it is going to be just about simply an all the time operating server I see no have to have a show, keyboard, and mouse all the time connected after I get all of it arrange. I’ve a number of Macs in the home in numerous places and so they all work nice with ARD however the are full programs with show, keyboards, and pointing units. All of them give me just about full management together with with the ability to reboot them remotely, and log again in remotely.
However after a number of days of attempting other ways of doing this together with plugging in a HDMI dummy connector to simulate a show it seems the one manner I can do that on this Mac mini is to maintain a mouse, keyboard, and show plugged in on a regular basis. I do know I may hold all that stuff unplugged and close by after getting it going however the ache of pulling them out and utilizing them to reset the system can be such a ache and I actually haven’t got the area for the show and keyboard and mouse to be sitting round.
I’ve disabled a lot of the built-in safety pondering that may be the difficulty — however no. And by default each time a distant entry try is made that doesn’t work as a result of all the pieces isn’t plugged into it, the Mac goes into restoration and I’ve to plug all that stuff again in to get it up and operating again to the login display.
SO… is it the case I am diminished to leaving a keyboard and mouse and show plugged into it on a regular basis and simply conceal it away behind the rack we now have all the pieces supporting our residence workplace in?
I simply wish to make certain I’ve not neglected one thing. I’ve tried each variation and mixture of setups I can and each time I am having to reboot the Mac with all its equipment to get it to work once more.