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Only it's User 3 a very limited (child) user (no pw on Mac - maybe I. No error, but screen grey, but no failure as before (wrong UID/PW combo).Įventually walked back to Mac (Lion 10.7.2) see user 2 session on display, switched back to User 1 (on Mac) and noticed that suddenly the iPhone/Mocha/User 2 screen is no longer grey but has (whatsit) galaxy background. Got logged out of VNC - lost connection (as expected as User 1).Ĭonnected again from Mocha as user 2 (using "general password" not UID/pw as per Lion although the target IS Lion). I was able to finally connect on (User 2) when I used VNC on user 1 (Easy, UID, Password), switched to user 2. I finally got the thing to work on a second signon from my iphone using Mocha VNC. Using Lion, Screen Sharing not remote Managment - stopped and kickstarted them a few times for good measure. For now I cannot because the user isn't interested in Lion.

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Another option is to upgrade the machine to Lion and see what sort of results I get. For now I shall keep it at 10.6.7 until there is a fix. So in my case, it appears there may be something buggy with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 not allowing the feature. Guess what?! I am able to use screen sharing, file sharing, and remote management without an issue from Lion -> Snow Leopard and vice-versa. So, I started the Snow Leopard machine booting with the secondary drive which has Snow Leopard 10.6.7. However, that was not the case when I used my Mac's. The second has Snow Leopard running 10.6.8īoth machines has multiple drives installed in the drive bays for backup purposes - the secondary drive.įrom an Ubuntu 10.10 machine I test the ssh feature and was able to successfully access the machines.

All suggestions proved unsuccessful for me, however, I was able to do the following: Even after upgrading to the latest version of 10.7.1, nothing. I too was having problems with the Screen Sharing feature after upgrading to Lion.

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If you want to have double login for multi-user reasons, simply don't setup/save your password, or save the password for the account you do want to login with. By configuring the Screen Sharing and Mocha apps to use OS X authentication, we bypass this annoyance. For most people, it's annoying to login twice. If you run a multiuser machine, this is a great feature. I don't believe that downgrading to ARD 3.4 is necessary, but instructions are here from Reubania (towards the bottom). Once rebooted, they should work correctly. You can find info here:, We did this manually by turning them on and then off.

Viola, you can now VNC without logging in twice.

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Configure Mocha but enter not just the VNC password, but also the Mac OS X user and password.

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Download Mocha VNC Lite from the Apple store for free.

You could download Screens from the Apple store or. Let's access the Lion computer from an iPhone or iPad:

You will now have to re-login with your OS X user password (unless you get a Windows client that supports direct login, but I don't know of one at the moment).

Let's access the Lion computer from a Windows PC: You can also connect by going to the Finder and hitting Apple-K or going to the Finder menubar Go > Connect to Server and finding the correct server. You can also connect to Windows computers running VNC with it. Viola, now you can use this to connect to your Lion computer, without having to login twice.

Type in the Bonjour name or IP address of your computer.

Now open the alias (or click the Dock icon).

Make an alias of it (click and drag while holding Apple and Option) in the Applications folder.

There is an application called Screen Sharing.

From the other Mac, open /System/Library/Core Services/.

Let's access the Lion computer from another Mac: If it still doesn't work, then you should try downgrading to ARD 3.4, but I don't think this is necessary. If you don't know what that last sentence means, leave Remote Management and remote Apple Events off.

If you administer a bunch of computers with ARD, then turn Remote Managment on.

If you want Windows computers to access it, go to Screen Sharing > Computer Settings, click the VNC checkbox, and enter a VNC password.

If you just want to access your computer through VNC or screen sharing, just turn on Screen Sharing. We have just "kickstarted" those services.

Now turn ON Screen Sharing, Remote Login, Remote Management, and Remote Apple Events.

Turn OFF Screen Sharing, Remote Login, Remote Management, and Remote Apple Events (just turn everything off).

You can skip all the other threads and just read this.

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How to fix VNC, Apple Remote Desktop (ARD), and screen sharing in OS X 10.7 Lion.