Hi all - I'm suffering from similar ARD/VNC/ScreenSharing problems, too - in this case however Yosemite to Yosemite!
Client computer:
Laptop: MacBook Pro
Yosemite 10.10.2
ARD 3.8.3
Remote Computer:
Desktop: MacMini
Yosemite 10.10.3
ARD 3.8.3
- I cannot connect to my remote machine (to control or just view it), neither with ARD nor with VNC.
- It does not work with Remote Management enabled nor Screen Sharing.
- Attempting a connection reports - after a while - the error "Connection failed ... Please make sure that Screen Sharing ... is enabled" (but it is enabled!)
In the log on the client machine the following entry appears:
Screen Sharing: SSSessionView.m:1815:-[SSSessionView ssSession:connectDidFail:]: Communications error
In the log on the remote machine the following entry appears:
com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.apple.screensharing[692]) Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.screensharing.server
Note, however that other functions work:
- On my Laptop ARD reports that the remote computer is available and displays the user and the current application correctly
- A connection does seem to be established between the client and the remote machine, because I can send a "Message to the Administrator" from the remote machine back to the client machine, which is correctly displayed on the client machine.
Come on Apple - you seem to have forgotten your credo "It just works!"
I thought I would never say it, but thank god for TeamViewer!