VNC Server in OSX

Google "OS X VNC Server"

The first link is OSXvnc. A great little app, and it's free.
http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/server/vineosx/index.html

Hi snoho,
Most of the well-known VNC servers compile on Mac OS X. However, if you can stand a GUI, there's always OSXvnc. I've found out how to use it from the command line and still get it to use the password file it creates. I've aliased vncup to the following command:

/Applications/OSXvnc.app/OSXvnc-server -rfbport 5909 -desktop <HostName> -dontdisconnect -restartonuserswitch N -keyboardLoading N -pressModsForKeys N -swapButtons -rendezvous N -rfbauth /Applications/OSXvnc.app/.osxvncauth 2>>|~/Library/Logs/OSXvnc-server.log &

That starts the server on desktop number 9 and uses the password file that was created when I set the password in the GUI. I can secure shell into a machine, execute "vncup" and then connect.

I would have expected that a VNC server comes with OS X because that's what Apple Remote Desktop uses to for its remote desktop connections. However, I don't have Apple Remote Desktop so I don't know how to use that server.
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Gary
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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
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Snoho,
It's built into the OS.
System Preferences>Sharing>
Turn on Apple Remote Desktop and click Access Privileges.
Check the VNC box and enter an access password.

Reese

In addition to Reese's tip about turning on ARD in sys prefs > sharing > services and enabling VNC therein, I also found it necessary to add VNC as a new firewall item in sys prefs > sharing > firewall. Maybe you won't, maybe Reese didn't have to, but with my 2001 Quicksilver G4, I had to. If you, too, find that you have to add VNC as a new firewall item, when you add new, select other, and it is a built-in option as one of your choices.

To the best of my knowledge, VNC is conducted in the clear. So, if you are going to initiate a VNC session from outside of your local trusted subnet, I would strongly encourage you to tunnel it through secure shell. If you don't know how to do that, I or a number of other people here in this forum can explain to you a very easy way to do this so that it is really quite painless. In your VNC client (like Chicken of the VNC) you just set up your "local trusted subnet" address and/or a "ssh-tunneled" address, and run ssh in the background in the latter case. Just ask if you need more info.




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