screen sharing with apple id not working

I'm having the same problem. 10.7.2 on my mini and MBA, AEBS w/ most recent software, Apple IDs entered in user accounts on both machines. Every time I try to connect using my Appel ID, I get the same "Authemtication Failed" error. Hope someone's got an answer....

I'm also having the same issue. I can successfully share the screen and files of my Macbook to my Macbook pro, and vice versa by logging in with the local admin account (user name & pass). However, I cannot share the screen or files of either by using the apple ID's of either machine. I'm attempting to do all of through the side bar in finder. I realize there are other ways to go about this, however, I'd like to get it working the way it was intended, and without having to jump through bunch of hoops (core svcs/screen sharing, or ARD).

I've tried every possible combination of sharing preferences such as:

adding the Apple id's to each machine

setting up sharing only accounts

disabling smb & afp and re-enabling

using remote management rather than screen sharing & vice versa

I even went as far as setting up accounts on each machine with matching apple ID's

I'm running Lion 10.7.2 on both computers and getting the same error on both "When connecting it says: Authentication Failed to "_______" Please try again with different credentials.

Any info, suggestions are appreciated.

Same issue!! When I try to connect from may macbook air to my mac mini using the AppleID I get the same error as you guys. I have setup the AppleID for my Administrator user in both machines. No Success !

Maybe Apple knows this, but as always we need to WAIT (A LOT) for a fix.

Add me to the list.

Same issue. Would like to find a fix before I get this working with my parents iMac.

I'm very disappointed with Lion, this feature has clearly not been implemented properly.

I'm having the exact same issue!

yesterday i've played with that issue also. Here are my results:

When you assign an appleid to your user account, you have to verify it's properly linked. You can do so by going to the users & groups pref pane. unlock it and right click on your user account. You should see "additional options" then. Go for it. Now take a look to the "Aliases" Section. You should see the mail adress of your linked appleid there. right below there should follow a line, starting with "com.apple.idms.appleid....". This seems to be some kind of Unique ID of your AppleID. If this entry is present, your AppleID is correctly linked to your account. If there is only the mail adress, the linking was not successfull. In this case, make sure you have Internet connection. This is important, because the information of the AppleID must be taken from apple's servers. so if you link the AppleID without Internet Connection, it will not work at all. After you have ensured a working internet connection, remove and reassign the AppleID to your account. After that, the entries should be OK.

When you have done this on both computers, you now should be able to connect a remote computer using your AppleID. But only for Filesharing. Screen Sharing seems not to work this way at the moment. I have played around about 2h yesterday without finding a clue to get this authentication method working.

After reading around in the web for a while, i found several posts which indicate that this feature only work, if you connect to the other mac using the IP Adress and not the hostname. Because i personally do not have the possibility to check that at the moment, maybe someone else can check this. Just go to safari and enter "vnc://IPofRemoteMac" in the adress bar. Connection should be established using IP adress then. Maybe this works

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Thanks, JohnDoe! I checked my computers and found that one had the line in the "Aliases" section, while the other did not. I re-associated the lacking computer and tried again and... nothing. But then, about 2 minutes later, it suddenly started working. Hooray!

I think JohnDoe's instructions fix the problem, with the addition that you might need to wait several minutes for some kind of refresh to take place behind the scenes.

Well, I will try this but in any case the implementation is clearly flawed since it should be working with screen sharing.

Brilliant, worked!

How can you say this is brilliant when the solution only works for file sharing? The original topic concerns screen sharing, not filesharing.

Worked for my screen sharing.

Yep, worked for my screen sharing. I read the post quickly, did it for my screen sharing, and it worked.

Well I've identified the culprit, the MacBook Pro that I wan't to connect to never creates that "com.apple.idms.appleid...." entry under aliases; no matter what. I drilled down in console and found this:

2012-01-09 19:12:03.663 CET - Module: SystemCache - Misconfiguration detected in hash 'GlobalGUID':

Group 'com.apple.access_screensharing-disabled' (/Local/Default) - ID 401 - UUID 61CFE3C7-AA0F-4172-9A72-AEA8F5222AAC - SID S-1-5-21-979916363-2907077357-3843087646-1803

I have no idea how to fix it, although I have a feeling it might be the cause of this. Any suggestions?