#TIGHT VNC FOR MAC OS X HOW TO#
#TIGHT VNC FOR MAC OS X INSTALL#
#TIGHT VNC FOR MAC OS X SOFTWARE#

#TIGHT VNC FOR MAC OS X INSTALL#

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. Where is the TCP port on which the server is running.Į.g. Since I have xterms open all the time on my mac, I generally do it like so: open vnc://: 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 scaling is turned on, this usually results in a small screen that cannot be read. The OS X VNC client will reconnect (great!) but it sizes the window oddly, and I can't resize it. 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 built-in VNC client with OS X works just great with most VNC servers I've tried on FreeBSD. 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.]

#TIGHT VNC FOR MAC OS X HOW TO#

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'. So still looking for alternatives, but making progress. 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. I now have tigervnc running on one server and on the Mac client.

#TIGHT VNC FOR MAC OS X SOFTWARE#

[Update, after first answer received: is a great source for finding software of this type. I don't have Apple's release code names memorized. 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.

a client from realvnc that runs in the chrome browser (ugh!).

'screen sharing app' from apple, possibly pre-installed on the mac,.

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. I also used another non-apple client from that Mac, which was flaky in different ways. I once used 'chicken of the vnc', which was flaky on whatever OS X release I had 2 years ago. 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. I really don't want to have to access them from a virtual windows machine running on the MAC :-(Ī web search for 'mac vnc client' produces zero useful hits. 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.

Tight vnc for mac os x