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ARD and screen sharing become unresponsive when switching users

This problem is STILL occurring with 10.6.6 and ARD 3.4. See this archived thread for prior information:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2177922

Whenever I'm sharing the screen of any headless Mac and I attempt to use fast user switching, the screen sharing window closes and I am unable to reconnect to screen sharing on the remote Mac until I reboot it.

This isn't a one-off problem with some esoteric feature that is rarely used. This is a serious bug related to an established and useful feature of the operating system. This problem has been happening for more than a year over Mac OS X versions since at least 10.5.8. There is an OpenRadar bug report for it. (See archived thread link.) This problem is an enormous pain to me and the enterprise customers I represent Apple to.

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MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2010, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Jan 6, 2011 10:20 PM

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Feb 10, 2011 2:55 PM in response to Aaron Adams (.Mac)

Aaron Adams (.Mac) wrote:
This problem is STILL occurring with 10.6.6 and ARD 3.4. See this archived thread for prior information:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2177922

Whenever I'm sharing the screen of any headless Mac and I attempt to use fast user switching, the screen sharing window closes and I am unable to reconnect to screen sharing on the remote Mac until I reboot it.


I agree completely. This a HUGE bug. I've just installed a MacMini with OS X server for file serving, VPN, and application services. I run it headless, and it an enormous pain not to be able to switch users. Apple needs to address this.

ARD and screen sharing become unresponsive when switching users

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