Kill Apple Remote Desktop via ssh

I tried to remote control my work machine from home using Apple Remote Desktop and got the following error:

“Apple Remote Desktop or another administration application is currently running.”

The problem was that I had left the same Apple Remote Desktop client running on my work machine. To solve this I sshed to that machine and issued:

“killall “Remote Desktop””

Update: You can then use remote desktop to reopen the Apple Remote Desktop client and go to preferences > Security and check “Allow control of this computer when this application is running”

Source: http://www.alecjacobson.com/weblog/?p=2783

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