VNC Black Screen?!?!?

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VNC Black Screen?!?!?

This one is driving me crazy!! I have a fairly new Macbook Pro (about 3 weeks old) and I cannot connect to anything via VNC - the screen is always black. I am running Bootcamp and can connect to the remote machines via VNC from the windows side, but just get a black screen on the Mac side. I have tried both Chicken of the Sea and the VNCViewer from RealVNC with the same result. I have also tried repairing permissions and zapping PRAM and still no change... and I am baffled!!

If anyone has any ideas or suggestions, it would be very much appreciated!!

tia,
Bill

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Oct 19, 2006 6:09 AM

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Answer 1

Calabahn

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Oct 19, 2006 9:32 AM in response to Bill Unger

I use Remote Desktop Connction to administrer my Windows servers. VNC doesn't have a viewer for OS X, currently. RDC is a free download from Microsoft.

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Bill Unger Author

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Oct 19, 2006 10:11 AM in response to Calabahn

VNC doesn't have a viewer for OS X, currently.

RealVNC does have a viewer for Mac, though to be fair it is in beta: http://www.realvnc.com/products/beta/macosx/

Chicken of the VNC is also available: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/

Regardless of Remote Desktop (which doesn't apply here as I need to remotely connect to 2 XServes and a couple of Windows 2000 Pro machines, my VNC isn't working on my Macbook Pro and I am not sure why...

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