Snow Leopard and Screen Sharing

You could try putting your screen sharing app in your Dock. That's about all I can think of. I assume you can connect to the other machine over the network without screen sharing.

It's possible that iChat is the issue. In ~/Library/Preferences, hunt for all the "com.apple.ichat.......plist files, and put them on the Desktop. Restart iChat. A very small amount of effort to re-establish. Try SS again.

What did you do to make it work?

In my setup, I am facing pretty much all the issues I saw on the forum around screen sharing. So from a Snow Leopard iMAC:
1. I can't even get the black remote screen when trying to get access to another iMAC 10.6.1 system. In most of the case the connecting window stays on for about 1 min and than closes; the screen sharing application shows nothing connected. Once or twice I got a black remote screen and once I think it did work well. Tens of times it just did not connect. Console messages show errors with NetAuthAgent (even that file sharing and screen sharing are enabled on the remote Snow Leopard system and the file sharing was fine but connection is slower than with leopard).
2. I can connect to a Leopard system but takes almost a minute to connect. I can access Leopard regardless of the screen sharing options and I never get a black remote screen.

All systems are in a LAN. Before Snow Leopard upgrade the screen sharing connection was instant on all systems.

how do you put the screen sharing app in the dock?you mean initiate screen sharing and once its there in the dock, right click and keep it in dock?

System/Library/CoreSrevices/Screen Sharing.app

Did you try putting the sharing app in the Dock? See the above post for location. Just drag it to the Dock.

Message was edited by: donv (The Ghost)