I have Power Nap enabled.
With the lid closed, if I select the MB Air from the finder window, and hit Share Screen, the Screen shows up and is usable for about 2 minutes before it dies (Screen sharing shows "Reconnecting"). The only way to reconnect for real is to give up and flip open the lid of the MB Air. I could have sworn this worked just fine - lid closed - before.
Any ideas?
10.8.3 all up to date 2012 Late MB Air.
Hello Jim,
Unfortunately, closing the MacBook Air will put the system to sleep. The system must not be asleep for Screen Sharing to work properly.
OS X Mountain Lion: If you can’t share computer screens
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11152
Make sure neither Mac is in sleep mode. Adjust sleep settings using Energy Saver preferences.
Cheers,
Allen
I think you might have misread the original post
With the lid closed:
Screen sharing DOES work but for TWO MINUTES then the "Reconnecting..." message appears and the system becomes uncontactable from the other machine completely - although it is still listed under the Shared section of finder.
The system wake to respond to the network event is deemed a Maintanence wake according to the console log.
According to the console log, after about 1m40s, the system decides that the Maint window is over and starts closing down applications and the connection ends.
It would be nice to force the system into a user state so that you could screen share or access shares until you log off and have the system revert to "power nap" mode, much like the wifi wake for access on Snow Leopard. This was the behaviour I expected. Since the system can only Power Nap while on AC power, it seems like this would make sense.
Jim,
I too have this issue (except I get about 45 seconds use before the shared screen dims, then it goes to sleep, then tries reconnection and goes back to the start with the lock-screen of my MBA shown). Adding to thread in hopes of resolution.
Thanks for the advice Eric, but rather see if there is an sox solution rather than something not 3rd Party app-based if possible..
Both MBA and iMac (client computer) are running fully patched MAVERICKS.
This article has a way to prevent sleeping with the lid closed. It doesn't sound like exactly what you want, but it might save walking back and forth.
Screen Sharing on MB Air (lid closed)
