[desktop-discuss] Connect to OSX Desktop from Indiana / OpenSolaris

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Iban Nieto wrote:
>
> Is there a way to connect to Apple OSX desktop via VNC or someother 
> remote desktop management client?
>
> I'm trying with vncviewer (SUNWvncviewer at 4.1.2,5.11-0.79) from pkg 
> repositories with no luck (protocol error, version supported from 
> OSX is newer than the vncviewer client).

Unfortunately, the VNC built into OS-X Leopard crashes (after drawing 
one screen) when used with standard VNC clients.  The only VNC client 
that I know of which works with it (according to other people) is 
called "Chicken Of The VNC" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/) 
and it is Mac only.  The OS-X VNC session initiation is non-conformant 
with the VNC specification from the RealVNC folks.

I installed an alternative VNC server on OS-X called "Vine Server for 
OS X" 
(http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/server/vineosx/index.html) 
which does interoperate with Unix VNC clients but is likely slower 
than Apple's built in server.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/