> I can not get it to work. I have tried the built-in > Mac (10.5) remote desktop and I tried the VNC viewer. > On the Mac version, it just has a status bar > forever. On the VNC, I get an error 61. > > Anybody remote control their OpenSolaris from a Mac? > > Jack
The builtin Mac remote desktop does not play well with modern VNC servers (or clients, for that matter). Going into the Mac running its native mode would I think require explicitly using hextile compression only. And I think it tries to do (or accept) something strange wrt authentication, too. >From a Mac, the free "Chicken of the VNC" viewer works well with non-Mac VNC servers. And there's an alternative VNC server for the Mac that works better with non-Mac clients; you just have to disable the native remote desktop functionality to use it. I _think_ I'm using the blastwave Xvnc and vncviewer on my Sun, but I wouldn't swear to that, and I can't check just now. (One of the viewers worked better with the Mac's native server than others, in terms of being able to specify encodings and such that would work.) AFAIK, on the Sun there's a separate Xvnc server, but the VNC extensions for Xorg aren't available on OpenSolaris (yet or ever?), which means one can access a separate session on the Sun (if one has set up dtlogin or gdm or whatever to run Xvnc as well as Xorg or Xsun), but one cannot take remote control of an already running local session. (Mac OS X 10.5.6 on a Core 2 Duo (2GHz) Mac Mini, with "Chicken of the VNC" client; Solaris SXCE snv_97 on a Sun Blade 2000; not sure what version of the Xvnc server or vncviewer client on the Sun, nor what version (but not the native one) of the VNC server on the Mac, for that matter.) For the builtin Mac client, an additional problem (if you wanted full functionality like detection in the Finder network view) would be that the Solaris box wouldn't be doing Bonjour (MDNS) advertising of the VNC service. That might be possible using static configuration files (see http://linux.die.net/man/5/avahi.service - why is the man page for that missing on OpenSolaris?), but for VNC it wouldn't help since the native Mac viewer may (as already mentioned) not work that well with non-Mac servers. (Nevertheless, I may have sample files for advertising VNC, netatalk, or CIFS shares lying around somewhere; again, I can't check right now.) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
