seduc

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Q: Screen sharing and remote management no longer working after some uptime

Server is withoiut monitor.
Users need to login via screen sharing from time to time.
"Enable screen sharing and remote management" is ticked in Server.app everything is working fine (for days, weeks).
ARD reports "Screen Sharing Available", so remote management is not running how it should.
Screen Sharing.app is "Connecting…" forever.
Kickstarting ARD (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2370) does not help.
Restart fixes it.

Is there a workaround (over ssh) or a fix?

Mac mini, OS X Server, Mavericks

Posted on Nov 30, 2013 8:59 AM

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Q: Screen sharing and remote management no longer working after some uptime

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by MrHoffman,

MrHoffman Nov 30, 2013 10:49 AM in response to seduc
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Nov 30, 2013 10:49 AM in response to seduc

Here are some ways to resetting screen sharing from the command line.
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seduc Nov 30, 2013 11:00 AM in response to MrHoffman
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Nov 30, 2013 11:00 AM in response to MrHoffman

Reloading the launch daemon doesn't help.
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by MrHoffman,

MrHoffman Nov 30, 2013 11:30 AM in response to seduc
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Nov 30, 2013 11:30 AM in response to seduc

If there's nothing obvious nor reparable that's causing Screen Sharing to fail and if restarting the daemon doesn't work, then you're probably left to reboot.
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seduc Nov 30, 2013 11:40 AM in response to MrHoffman
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Nov 30, 2013 11:40 AM in response to MrHoffman

Might be possible at night. But it is a CoreStorage volume (not made with FileVault GUI – so independant of admin password).
Do you know if
fdesetup authrestart
works then too?
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by MrHoffman,

MrHoffman Nov 30, 2013 1:28 PM in response to seduc
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Nov 30, 2013 1:28 PM in response to seduc

seduc wrote:

Do you know if
fdesetup authrestart
works then too?

Off-hand, no. I don't. See this posting, or as would be typical in any case, try it?
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seduc Nov 30, 2013 3:48 PM in response to MrHoffman
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Nov 30, 2013 3:48 PM in response to MrHoffman

The guys need it to earn money and I'm not sitting in front of it. So I can't try just like that.
Thanks, but I was hoping somebody knew a work around (don't consider restarting to be one).
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seduc Dec 3, 2013 2:47 PM in response to seduc
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Dec 3, 2013 2:47 PM in response to seduc

Remote Desktop Client Update (3.7.1) didn't solve it.

Anyone got ideas of other things that might be involved in screen sharing/remote management?
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seduc Dec 4, 2013 3:42 PM in response to seduc
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Dec 4, 2013 3:42 PM in response to seduc

It doesn't work.
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