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Re: [AG-TECH] Any Mac VNC Server Recommendations?



OSXvnc works on Intel Macs in native mode. Suggestion: if you use it on computers that have high end visibility/access on networks - change the port for accessing it and disable it's feature for announcing itself to the network locally. That will help limit attempts to break into your VNC which, if that machine is already logged in at the desktop, gives a person potential admin access to your machine. I routinely make sure the screen saver uses a password for access so just in case someone does get in, they still have another layer to get through.

I've not seen OSXvnc broken into, but... I've seen RealVNC broken into all the time. I don't go begging for folks to try to get in another way... :-)

-John Q.

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On Mar 12, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Fred Dech wrote:

OSXvnc is the server the SharedDesktop shared app uses.  I ran a lot of tests
with non-intel Macs a few months ago and OSXvnc works well as a server.
I've not tried it with the Intel Macs.

--fred

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:21AM, Jeremy Mann said:
John, google for OSXVnc:



On 3/12/07, john langkals <langkals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:




Hello AG Tech,



I am trying to locate an Apple Mac VNC Server program.  I looked at Chicken
of the VNC but it looks to be only a client.  Are there any server
recommendations?



Thank you,



John




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