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I'm looking to run a VNC server on some of my Macs running Mac OS so that I can access them from other machines. Google searching for generic terms was useless, for example 'VNC Server Mac OS' only gets you results about Mac OS X.
More specifically, I'm looking for VNC server software(s) that would run on both 68K and PowerPC. What VNC server software is available for Mac OS?
Just to clarify: this question is about Mac OS, not Mac OS X or macOS (Sierra/High Sierra).
Vine Server is a full featured VNC server for Mac OS X providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard and mouse using Vine Viewer or any other VNC client. Vine Server offers a rich and unique feature set among Mac OS X VNC servers including: * Flexible port assignment for multiple VNC servers on a single computer. OS X Based VNC Server Released. Dan McGuirk had done the dirty work and compiled/released a VCN server for Mac OS X, OSXvnc. VNC, or Virtual Network Computing, allows users to remotely control.
- Vine Server is a full featured VNC server for Mac OS X providing remote access to the GUI, keyboard.
- How to Set Up VNC on Mac OS X. WikiHow is a wiki similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are written collaboratively. This article has also been viewed 1,130,085 times. In this Article: Understanding VNC Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 - Setup as Server Mac OS X 10.4 - Setup as Client Mac OS X 10.5.
- Vine Server is a robust, full-featured VNC server for OS X. It allows any VNC client to remotely view or control the machine. It allows any VNC client to remotely view or control the machine. Vine Server requires no license key.
- VNCViewer is the only program that works with the server I am trying to connect to. Neither Chicken of the VNC, nor JollysFast, nor the Mac OS VNC connection worked for me. These give a message - Cannot Connect - but VNCViewer works perfectly.
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There is already VNC-server software builtin to the macOS. Go to System Preferences > Sharing and tick the box for Screen Sharing on the left. Notice the Computer Settings… button on the right. Click that and you will get a drop-down dialogue with an option for 'VNC viewers may control screen with password:' Enable that, and you should be able to use whatever VNC-client software you choose. I am not very experienced, but my research led me to choose TigerVNC, which I've used with success on Linux to control my Mac.
The standard app in the old days to control Macs remotely was Timbuktu (Pro).
Selling of the app was stopped in 2015.
- A 68k version is available here: Timbuktu Pro 4.0.6
- A PPC version is available here: Timbuktu Pro 5.2.4 & 6.0
- A macOS version running in Sierra is available here: Timbuktu Pro 8.8.5
To get keys/serials you'd have to buy them at ebay or use non-legal sources.
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I have a number of FreeBSD servers, and I'd like to put VNC server software on them, then access them from a Mac running OS X 10.9.5.
I really don't want to have to access them from a virtual windows machine running on the MAC :-(
A web search for 'mac vnc client' produces zero useful hits. (I don't want remote access to the mac.)
My memory is that Apple had a built in client with a non-obvious name, perhaps 'screen', which they 'fixed' a few releases ago to only work if the VNC server was itself from Apple, running on a Mac. Perhaps they have since unfixed it.
I once used 'chicken of the vnc', which was flaky on whatever OS X release I had 2 years ago. I also used another non-apple client from that Mac, which was flaky in different ways. (The built in app was unusable.)
IIRC, I was using 'Tightvnc' or 'Realvnc' on my servers at that time, which had worked fine with the first random windows-based VNC client I tried.
All I've heard about so far are
- 'screen sharing app' from apple, possibly pre-installed on the mac,name and location unknown
- a client from realvnc that runs in the chrome browser (ugh!)
When referring to OS X releases, please use release numbers in your answers, not just names of cats - or else link to a page that translates the cat names to release numbers. I don't have Apple's release code names memorized.
[Update, after first answer received: alternativeto.net is a great source for finding software of this type. I now have tigervnc running on one server and on the Mac client. No flakiness so far, but the Mac client for tigervnc seems unwilling to let me connect to multiple servers at the same time, and Mac's GUI interface seems unwilling to let me launch multiple copies of the client program. So still looking for alternatives, but making progress.
Still trying to figure out how to invoke the client built into OSX - it's not at the path I found on the net, /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications Looks like I need to know the right invocation to feed to Finder, which doesn't have anything like a button labelled 'screen sharing'. I did find a menu item labelled 'connect to server', but that just gives me connection failures, perhaps because it's defaulting a URI type of afp:// which probably has nothing to do with vnc - or perhaps because the tool is unrelated to vnc.]
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The built-in VNC client with OS X works just great with most VNC servers I've tried on FreeBSD. I've mostly been using TigerVNC from ports (seems to be the fastest with OS X's VNC client), and the only issue I have is when I restart the VNC server while connected to it. The OS X VNC client will reconnect (great!) but it sizes the window oddly, and I can't resize it. Since scaling is turned on, this usually results in a small screen that cannot be read. Just restart the VNC client (or close the window and open a new connection, if you've got multiple connections open), and it's all OK again.
Since I have xterms open all the time on my mac, I generally do it like so:
where <port> is the TCP port on which the server is running.
E.g. if it's :1, you'd use 5901 as <port>. You can even install the avahi port, and set up a service, so the VNC session shows up in Finder (although there's a Finder preference to change to make them show up since OS X 10.8, IIRC), just like a Mac that has 'screen sharing' enabled (i.e. it's running a VNC server).
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You can connect to remote Linux machines with your Mac's built-in vnc client.
Setup the vnc server on the remote Linux machine.
On your Mac, go to Finder. Press
cmd+Kor Go > Connect to Server.In the Server Address, enter
vnc://{HOST}:{PORT}. For examplevnc://linux.myhost.com:5901.
A VNC session will be connected to the remote Linux machine with the Screen Sharing application.
What you are looking for is the built in Screen Sharing app which resides in System/Library/CoreServices. It can connect to most VNC servers and is slightly faster than other options such as RealVNC.
Real VNC or VNC Viewer are the same client (aside from platform) as used on Windows PCs for decades. OS X is designed to work with VNC protocol out of the box.
As an added bonus, Real VNC is available as a free iOS app.
The only real concerns you should have in using it are security hardening, ie restricting access to specific IP addresses or users.
I don't have a lot of recent experience with VNC on the Mac but if you look at this (on stackexchange.com) it will explain how to connect to another client via the O/S X VNC server.
Apple's version is called Remote Desktop, the commercial version is just Apple Remote Desktop and really designed to manage Macs. I've used the latter but never tried to connect to a strictly VNC client. Not sure if it is possible.
If you go to the RealVNC website and choose 'Download > Viewer' you get a native OSX app that works nicely for me. I'm not exactly sure about the licensing terms, but going through 'Products > Product Selector' on the homepage seems to indicate that the Viewer is free (while the Server is licensed).
The built-in Apple Screen Sharing works nicely too, although I experienced hangs with xterm on the remote (tracked as 'linux xterm problem' in Apple Support Communities). The built-in is accessible from Safari through vnc://hostname in the address bar. If launched once, you can right-click on the icon in the dock and choose Options > Keep in Dock for easy access.
The 'Chicken' VNC did not work for me at all.
The best explanation I've seen for how to use apple's 'screen' as a vnc client is at http://www.davidtheexpert.com/post.php?id=5
He seems unaware of the period when apple had broken compatibility with non-apple VNC servers, but other than that his instructions seem great, and work beautifully on OS X El Capitan Version 10.11.6. (I'm no longer on 10.9.5)
Arlie Stephens