Screen Sharing not Working

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! 🙂

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?

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.

Good work, if it comes back it's likely a damaged plist. 🙂

I didn't think of it either.... Thanks!

Thanks John Dougherty your solution worked for me too. Well spotted 🙂

This worked for me too. Good job.