VNC to Mac OS 10.5 from Windows

April 17th, 2009

I’ve been trying for a while to get the Mac “Screen Sharing” to work.? I want to control the Mac from a Windows Vista machine.? Even though Screen Sharing is just a VNC server, my RealVNC client would seem to connect for a split second and then the connection would go away.

I finally found the solution: in the VNC client (vncviewer) options, set the encoding to “Hextile” and the color level to “Full”.? Now it connects fine!

vncviewer settings

Posted by karl.kranich Filed in cool tools, tips&tricks
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One Response to “VNC to Mac OS 10.5 from Windows”

  1. Kent on April 17th, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    Very nice Karl!

    Of course I haven’t had to do this yet. (Our Bomgar appliance is my friend.)

    But nice to see this in case I need to do this soon.

One Response to “VNC to Mac OS 10.5 from Windows”

  1. Kent Says:
    April 17th, 2009 at 7:04 pm

    Very nice Karl!

    Of course I haven’t had to do this yet. (Our Bomgar appliance is my friend.)

    But nice to see this in case I need to do this soon.

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