RealVNC "Free" 4.1.2 client to MacOS 10.5.1 ARD server

[James Weatherall]

Hi Richard,

Although Apple Remote Desktop is based on VNC, it is not VNC-compatible,
although you may get it to interoperate with VNC if you configure it in the
right way.

The release notes for VNC Enterprise Edition refer to Mac OS X Leopard
compatibility because VNC Server Enterprise Edition is now
Leopard-compatible, allowing you to replace Leopard's ARD server with a
standard, fully-compatible VNC server.

Cheers,

--
Wez @ RealVNC Ltd
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Richard Michael
> Sent: 21 January 2008 01:24
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RealVNC "Free" 4.1.2 client to MacOS 10.5.1 ARD server
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm having trouble connecting from my Fedora 7 box running 
> the RealVNC vncviewer, 4.1.2 Free Edition (that "ships with" 
> Fedora), to a recently installed MacOS 10.5.1 Leopard server. 
>  (On the Mac side, I've enabled "Screen sharing" and test a 
> password to allow VNC clients to control the
> Mac.)
> 
> I read something about ARD supporting only hextile encoding, 
> so I tried that (and explicitly disabled autoselect).
> 
> I'm prompted for the password, and provide it, but then the 
> connection is dropped.  It looks like the password is OK.
> 
> Does anyone have this working?  The release notes for VNC Enterprise
> 4.3.3 list "support Mac OS 10.5 Leopard" -- what does that 
> mean, fixes in the client?  Server? Are they coming to Free 4.1.2?
> 
> Log output with maximum debug (100 is max, correct?) follows.
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> [user "at" host ~]$ vncviewer -PreferredEncoding hextile 
> -AutoSelect 0 -log *:stderr:100 192.168.0.100
> 
> VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.2 for X - built Oct 24 2007 
> 08:00:06 Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
> See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
> 
> Sun Jan 20 20:13:31 2008
>  CConn:       connected to host 192.168.0.100 port 5900
>  CConnection: reading protocol version
>  CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.889
>  CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8
>  CConnection: processing security types message
>  CConnection: Server offers security type [unknown secType](30)
>  CConnection: Server offers security type VncAuth(2)
>  CConnection: Server offers security type [unknown secType](35)
>  CConnection: Choosing security type VncAuth(2)
>  CConnection: processing security message
> 
> Sun Jan 20 20:13:34 2008
>  CConnection: processing security result message
>  CConnection: processing security result message
>  CConnection: Authentication success!
>  CConnection: reading server initialisation
>  CConnection: initialisation done
>  TXImage:     Using shared memory XImage
>  TXImage:     Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 24.
>  CConn:       Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222
>  CConn:       Using hextile encoding
>  DesktopWindow: selection (1) time is 0, later 0
>  DesktopWindow: no selection (272)
>  TXImage:     Freeing shared memory XImage
>  main:        End of stream
> [user "at" host ~]$
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