Apple Remote Desktop 3.3.1 Client update broke Screen Sharing

Hi!

I installed the update on two Macs. I have the problem that the update seems to have a damaged signature. Thus the firewall keeps permanently asking me if I want to allow incoming network connections for "ARDAgent.app". I tried to reinstall it using the download version of the client update from Apple's website.It did not help on both Macs. Clicking "yes" in the firewall dialog does not help. The next time boot OS X (10.5.8) the firewall messages appears again. When I use screen sharing, then the messages pops up approx. every 30 seconds on the client Mac. Can someone help me?

I have installed the update too and now the VNC is slow and when something in the screen updates to many times the linux vnc client freeze. Anyone knows how to revert to the previous version?

Remote Desktop 3.3 admin seems really slow too - but that could be the client. I will know for sure tomorrow. I'd like to downgrade if I could.

Similar issues on my computers as well. Screen sharing worked fine between work and home until this update. Rebooting the computers corrected the issues on the home network, but access from work is still not functioning. Home computer shows up in the sidebar when at work, but cannot connect for screen or file sharing.

Also on the home network, Mocha VNC on the iPhone only loads about 10% of a screen and then freezes. This previously worked without issues prior to the update. If anyone know how to rollback the Remote Desktop update, please post. Thanks.

Ditto. Screen Sharing is BROKEN after applying Apple's updates.

I've noticed that turning off "adaptive quality" and "full quality" on allows screen sharing to work albeit SLOWLY.

Please fix, Apple!

Same problem here. Updated all my machines to 3.3.1 and 10.5.8. None of them display anything except a black screen when using ARD or Screen Sharing.

I have the same problem. 1 mac Mini, two 15" MacbookPros running 10.5.8 and recently upgraded to ARD 3.3.1.

Upgrading to ARD 3.3.1 totally disabled our screen sharing on the Mini (MBP's get a black screen when connecting to the Mini, Mini will connect to MBP's OK, MBP's connect to MBP's OK).

Chicken of the VNC on the MBP's and VNClite from my iPod touch DOES allow viewing the Mini, so this is definitely an OSX screen sharing issue.


Apple, please patch/fix this! Screen sharing is essential to controlling our Mini, which is our HTPC as well as our music server!

As an alternative, can I restore the MBP's from an earlier Time Machine update and get rid of 3.3.1? The only problem is how do I make sure not to lose all the files and word docs I've created since then?

Add me to this list. Environment has a Core2 Duo iMac (which runs ARD Admin) and a Core Duo Mac mini, all on 10.5.x. Updated the mini to 10.5.8 and ARD (and a few other updates that were available, like iPhoto) and suddenly couldn't observe or control the mini from my iMac. Ran similar updates on my iMac and the problem persists. Tried deleting preference files, resetting ARD Admin, multiple restarts, and got nothing.

I seem to be able to do anything else via ARD Admin, however. I can copy, delete, restart, send messages, etc to the mini. It's only observing and controlling that I can't do. Depending on what I've tried most recently I get either a black window with a "Reconnecting" message (which stays on screen forever) or an "authorization failed" message.

Screen Sharing seems to be working fine for me between both mine and my friend's Macbooks. I will update you if I figure out why. We both installed the Apple Remote Desktop 3.3.1 Client as well.

Seems that mine has magically fixed itself. I shut it down for four days while away and turned it back on to find that it works again. No idea what happened. Maybe something on Back to My Mac was fixed on Apples end.

Elementary School Teacher with 41 eMacs having same problem. I tell my students to be patient with my mistakes, but I'm not feeling all that patient with Apple right now.

OK, same story here. I have 3 intel MacMinis. For whatever reason, software update had two of them install the Remote Desktop Client (even though I've never used ARD), and one didn't. The one without the update can screen share and connect to the other two and vice versa. But the two that had the update applied can neither connect to nor share the screen of the other mini that was updated!

Does anyone know how to remove this update? Where did the installed file(s) go? Can they be manually deleted?

Actually, I just found the software update log files, and the client update was installed on all 3 minis. So I now have absolutely no idea why 1 machine works fine and the other 2 don't. The 2 that don't work aren't even allowing connections between each other. But they will connect to and allow connections from the third mini that's not having any problems. Arrgh!

Mocha vnc connects to my machine but I get a black screen with the first centimeter of the screen displayed. This worked fine prior to 3.3.1....

How do I revert?