Comments on: Connect to a Mac Remote Desktop using VNC

By: Darrkon

Darrkon — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:39:07 +0000

This worked for me.. so thanks very much for the help! (need to make sure full colours is selected as well)

Cheers

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:16:01 +0000

I was still having problems and found changing VNC options to full color solved my problem.

By: mtndog

mtndog — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:42:03 +0000

THANK YOU! The ‘hextile’ tweak worked great for UltraVNC running on Vista 64 Ultimate.

By: ernie

ernie — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:59:56 +0000

After installing VNC and setting up remote login on MAC X. I finally was able to connect but I have a black screen. I double checked my setting on my XP pro VNC and MAC remote login setting. Everything looks ok but I still get a black screen. I know I am connecting to the MAC because it request my credentials before I connect. Does anyone have the same problem and a solution?

By: alin iacob

alin iacob — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:18:56 +0000

wrlee, you are so right. Setting the preferredEncoding without setting fullcolor to 1 does not work. thanks for writing this

alin iacob.

By: wrlee

wrlee — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:14:39 +0000

The two key settings that I found the essential settings for the RealVNC viewer 4.4 to be:

FullColour=1
PreferredEncoding=hextile

(Unfortunately, it has some trouble “remembering” these settings, so I have to set them each time, since I don’t want the settings to apply to all my connections).

By: Wil Becker

Wil Becker — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:15:03 +0000

Dude. thank you very very much. I was pulling my hair out on this…

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:32:32 +0000

I can’t seem to get cut / copy / paste to work. Any suggestions on how to debug?

By: Indy

Indy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:25:46 +0000

Dude, thank you! I know absolutely nothing about Mac’s, but just got one at work for design purposes and will attempt to use the thing full time, but needed a way to RD from home from a Vista Laptop. Simply changing the format and encoding options to hextile (within UltraVNC) allowed me to connect perfectly. Thanks for the tip!

By: Spenny

Spenny — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:21:36 +0000

The solution to the problem is to tick the VNC Viewers may control screen with password and set a password (found under Computer Settings from Remote Management from within Sharing).

What I’ve found is that RealVNC performs well, but the screen refresh is flakey – I needed to stop the dock auto-displaying, and it seemed flaky on starting up apps – it does not like the dashboard. TightVNC is a lot slower displaying but seems reliable.

I haven’t spent too long using either, but I haven’t had to full screen refresh the screen, unlike RealVNC. I am not sure if there is a solution.

By: guest

guest — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:41:40 +0000

use tightVNC client instead

http://rclermont.blogspot.com/2008/01/using-ubuntu-vnc-client-to-connect-to.html

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:04:09 +0000

Has anyone got this to work? I’m using RealVNC as well and I’ve created the file, changed to the hostname and get exactly the same error as everyone else.

By: Keve

Keve — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:23:06 +0000

Just to correct my last statement.
The connection NEVER WORKS when I connect to a system running the OSX SERVER edition of Apple’s operating system using the built-in ARD server. Running OSXvnc on the OSX SERVER does give me access to the server and works well.

By: Keve

Keve — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:18:21 +0000

My experience shows that there is a significant difference between the ARD server implementation of OSX and OSX Server.
The above mentioned method seems to WORK PERFECTLY when I connect to an OSX desktop system (tried with 10.4.x only) regardless of that system running the built-in ARD server or OSXvnc.
However, the connection NEVER WORKS when I connect to a system running the OSX SERVER edition of Apple’s operating system.

By: Mas

Mas — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:41:28 +0000

boaby

By: George

George — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:46:01 +0000

I am trying to connect to an apple file server using this method… I get an incompatible version error on connect. Any ideas as to a solution? I have been told that I am able to use real vnc to connect to the server. Thanks in advance.

By: d34dm34t

d34dm34t — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:30:21 +0000

I also get the “No matching Security Types” error while using Real VNC. It would appear to be a common problem (if the Google results are to be believed) and suggests that people who are able to connect are actually using OSXvnc rather than the built in server.

By: netmonkey

netmonkey — Fri, 18 May 2007 00:25:33 +0000

couldn’t agree more, regarding the note about built-in SSH.

i’ve set up my Mac Pro to run sshd, then i just use plink & vnc from my xp box for the SSH tunnel. works great.

By: Sten

Sten — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:06:55 +0000

I get a “No matching Security Types” error when I try to connect to my OSX Server with this. Have you seen this before? Im using RealVNC.