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How to enable screen sharing (vnc) from terminal (ssh connection)?

Hi,


Setting the scene:

I installed Lion on my office iMac a couple of days before leaving on vacation.

Now on a remote location on holiday, I cannot share the screen of my office mac anymore. This was possible before the upgrade to Lion.

I'm still able to ssh to my office iMac, so I have some control...


Problem:

I want to check the Systems Preferences settings via terminal (the ssh session). How can I do this?

I suppose VNC is just switched off due to the upgrade, and I want to remotely enable screen sharing (and vnc) from the Terminal.

A google search tells me how to do this for 10.6, but not howto for 10.7.


Hope somebody can help.


Thanks,


Stefan.

Posted on Aug 6, 2011 4:42 AM

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Posted on Aug 6, 2011 5:07 AM

Problem solved! 🙂


I found the solution in the meantime here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2370


1/ In the ssh session to my my iMac:

a) cd /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/


b) sudo ./kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -privs -all -restart -agent


2/ Than on my local MacBook Terminal:

a) cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app/Contents/MacOS


b) ./Screen\ Sharing &


3/ In the popup I connect to my ssh tunnel... (localhost:5901)


Hope this may help somebody else in the future...


Stefan.

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Aug 6, 2011 5:07 AM in response to Treanus

Problem solved! 🙂


I found the solution in the meantime here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2370


1/ In the ssh session to my my iMac:

a) cd /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/


b) sudo ./kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -privs -all -restart -agent


2/ Than on my local MacBook Terminal:

a) cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing.app/Contents/MacOS


b) ./Screen\ Sharing &


3/ In the popup I connect to my ssh tunnel... (localhost:5901)


Hope this may help somebody else in the future...


Stefan.

How to enable screen sharing (vnc) from terminal (ssh connection)?

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