Screen Sharing turns itself off!

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Screen Sharing turns itself off!

This is an issue that has turned up since moving to lion.

I have scren sharing enables in System Preferences > Sharing on my office mac and home mac. Sometimes I will try to screen share with one or the other mac and the Screen Sharing app will launch and just sit at the "Connecting to Home/Office Mac.." window for a while and then a Connection Failed window pops up telling me to enable screen sharing on the other mac.

When I get to the other mac, Screen sharing has been disabled and it wont allow me to re-enable it without restarting the computer. This same thing happens on both of my macs, so it doesn't seem to be an isolated incident. It happens fairly frequently.

Has anyone ever experienced this or have a solution?

Thanks

Posted on Aug 18, 2012 9:23 AM

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Answer 1

abstert

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Aug 18, 2012 11:56 AM in response to Nathan Sawyer

Try this on both machines and test to see if it works. If not, you may need to run an update if not done so already.

Open System Preferences > Sharing
Turn OFF Screen Sharing, Remote Login, Remote Management, and Remote Apple Events (just turn everything off)
Now turn ON Screen Sharing, Remote Login, Remote Management, and Remote Apple Events
Now turn everything OFF again. We have just "kickstarted" those services.
Now enable the services you want. If you just want to access your computer through VNC or screen sharing, just turn on Screen Sharing.

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Answer 2

Aug 18, 2012 3:04 PM in response to abstert

Thanks abstert. I will give this a try when I have access to my other machine again.

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