Screen Sharing not Working

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Screen Sharing not Working

I have 6 iMacs running 10.6 with screen sharing turned on and file sharing turned on. When I connect to any of them from my office computer, I get no option for screen sharing option, but I can file share. When I connect to them with Chicken of the VNC, they screen share fine. What is going on?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Jan 20, 2011 5:56 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 30, 2011 6:06 PM in response to David Knecht

I have 4 macs running Lion, all of which were screen sharing just fine until about 4 days ago. Now one of them will not give me the option to screen share. File sharing and connecting to the computer over the network (both in home and from work) works just fine, I just cannot get the option to screen share. All of the others work fine. Any hints?

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Answer 2

Jan 22, 2011 10:25 AM in response to David Knecht

Having same issue so thought I would bump this up. Trying to connect to my "headless mac mini." File Sharing works fine, but screen sharing does not from my Mac Pro. It just hangs and then goes away. Tried by connecting directly and through "Back to my Mac" Interestingly, my Macbook Pro can both screen and file share. I've tried deleting the screen sharing preferences plist file, rebooting, turning teh services off and on, all to no avail.

Jolly VNC works just fine for screen sharing, so I'm a little perplexed.

Thanks.

Ray

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Answer 3

Surge74

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Feb 6, 2011 10:56 AM in response to David Knecht

I have a similar problem. Macs running 10.6 do not connect to Macs running 10.5 reliably.

I use a Mac Mini running 10.5 as an office server. Accessing it (both through the Finder and Screen Sharing) is spotty, slow, and problematic. It works about 50% of the time. Otherwise, the Mini is simply not visible.

Please fix - highly annoying.

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Answer 4

May 24, 2011 9:13 PM in response to David Knecht

I was having the same problem. My iMac would not screen share with my MacMini. It would accept my username and password but the login screen would just disappear. It had worked fine in the past. I tried the NetAuth quit-process trick but it didn't work. Rebooting both machines didn't work. They could file share just fine...but no screen share. I finally decided to erase all records of username/passwords for my connection to my Mac Mini in Keychain and voilà! It works again! 🙂

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Answer 5

Aug 5, 2011 6:58 PM in response to John Dougherty

I found the fix- very simple (I feel stupid). On the Mac where Screen Sharing was not working, I simply went to System Preferences>Sharing, and deselected the Remote Management checkbox, then simply rechecked it. Everything now works properly.

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