James Cornell wrote: > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Iban Nieto wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to connect to Apple OSX desktop via VNC or someother >>> remote desktop management client? >>> >>> I'm trying with vncviewer (SUNWvncviewer at 4.1.2,5.11-0.79) from pkg >>> repositories with no luck (protocol error, version supported from >>> OSX is newer than the vncviewer client).
Sounds like you're using a viewer from SFW or Indiana, which I can't comment on. The vncviewer from Blastwave seems to work though (on S10), as does TightVNC from a Windows XP laptop. I will admit that it's a little slow, even with gigabit ethernet and two boxes with >= dual core CPUs (the laptop is even slower). Also, there are some display turds that don't get redrawn sometimes if the VNC client window is obscured and then exposed. But it doesn't seen to crash, at least not after a few minutes of testing. You can clean up the display divots by dragging a window round the display to force a redraw. You do, however, need to enable VNC on the mac side by going into System Preferences -> Sharing -> Screen Sharing, then click on "Computer Settings" and enable "VNC viewers may control screen with password". I also only tested this in "shared" VNC mode, so non-shared may not work. >> Unfortunately, the VNC built into OS-X Leopard crashes (after drawing >> one screen) when used with standard VNC clients. The only VNC client >> that I know of which works with it (according to other people) is >> called "Chicken Of The VNC" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/) >> and it is Mac only. The OS-X VNC session initiation is non-conformant >> with the VNC specification from the RealVNC folks. As mentioned above, try TightVNC. It also reports a protocol mismatch, but seems to work ("VNC server protocol version 3.889 (viewer 3.3)"). James Cornell wrote: > It'd be nice to have X11VNC for > OSX, since it hooks the actual server directly, thus eliminating the > abstraction and fake frame buffer. Probably not. Connecting to an X11VNC process on the Apple system is only going to let you see X11 processes remotely, not any native Apple ones. See http://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2007/nov/msg01122.html Hugh.
