Screen Sharing login details

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Screen Sharing login details

I use my Mac Pro to control my Mac Mini (media center).

There is no monitor on the Mac Mini so I use the built in screen sharing from OS X 10.7

I load this several times a day and I find it frustrating to have to replace the "shortname" with my user name on the Mac Mini: "Media Center"

I have selected the "remember this password in my keychain" but I still have to retype "Media Center" in every time.

Is there a way to automatically store "Media Center" in the name field? Possibly with a line of code in terminal?

Thanks for the help!

Posted on Jul 13, 2012 10:09 PM

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BobHarris

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Jul 14, 2012 8:38 AM in response to Joe914

from the terminal you can use

open vnc://shortname@your_mac_mini_name.local

You could then put this into an Automator app that invokes "Run Shell Script" where you replace the 'cat' command with the 'open' command.

It will make life a lot easier if you make your Mac mini's System Preferences -> Sharing -> Computer name a single word with no spaces in it and not strange special characters. The terminal command will appreciate that.

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Joe914 Author

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Jul 14, 2012 2:04 PM in response to BobHarris

Thanks for the suggestions bob. Below is what I came up with. I now just have to click one icon and I'm instantly sharing the screen with my media center. I modified your idea by recording a mouse click to hit the connect button for me.

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Joe914 Author

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Jul 14, 2012 2:20 PM in response to Joe914

Found a nice mac mini icon here: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=mac+mini+icon#/d2rv6xs

Awesome!! Much cleaner & easier than my previous method.

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