Re: Using screen sharing on SL Server

Make sure under Screen Sharing -> Computer Settings you have "VNC
viewers may control screen with password" checked and that a password
is set. Also, SL doesn't like 8-bit color connections so make sure
that's turned off.

Hope this helps.

Dean

On Jun 26, 4:50 am, neuwirthe <neuwirther...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This may be a repost, but it seems my original message did not make
> it.
>
> I am trying to access my SL server at the department via iSSH.
> I can get there with ssh only,I get a command line.
> But when I try to use VNC,I get
> Unable to initialize connection to VNC server: localhost on port 5900,
> error 'Connection to VNC server failed with message'
>
> Googling showed that somebody suggested to do
>
> defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing skipLocalAddressCheck -boolean
> YES
>
> on the SL server machine.
> I tried, but it did not solve the problem.
>
> Does anybody have detailed instructions how to make this work?

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