Went to RealVNC website, and they stated that only RealVNC Enterprise edition 4.6.2 can handle Lion. So I downloaded that, installed it with a trial, and **once** it worked, I was able to type my password.
I leave my Mac on all the time. When I VNC, I would type in my password to log on as admin. Back with Snow Leopard, I just disconnect my VNC and I could reconnect no problem. Now I have to log off? That doesn't make sense.
With regard to 'logging out of the server being stupid'; if you read the thread I posted, it suggests that you log out of the CONSOLE first before you connect via VNC due to the new multi-user function in Lion. If you log out of the Mac console, then remote in via VNC, you will get the login screen (and not just the gray screen). Wait for the blinking cursor and then type in the password to log in.
1) I contacted RealVNC asking them why their RealVNC Enterprise doesn't work with OS Lion when it says so on their website. They state that there is a known issue with RealVNC and apple os lion screen share.
2) When I do use RealVNC viewer, I get the gray screen, cannot type anything. If I try again once or twice more, it seems to crash the whole screen sharing. I cannot make contact again with my mac. I know this because on my iphone "iteleport" works 100%, but if I try to use it after I attempt with RealVNC, it can't even make contact with the server. Seems like something is crashing the 'screen sharing'
I do have the RealVNC 4.6 personal client running on Win 7 x64 that I connect in to the Lion 10.7 builtin VNC server with. I gave you the recipe for it above. We have a Mac server farm and users can reserve time on a Mac running 10.7, so we use it a lot.
I have seen the 'crashing' on the console as you are seeing after you connect. I have experienced this too. The workaround is to reboot the Mac (unfortunately). Obvioulsy, some bugs need to be worked out. In my case, my 'test' Mac is a MBP laptop, so it was easy enough to just reboot it.
There is a difference of logging out at the Console rather than thru VNC. The console session is as if you are sitting at the screen and then logging out. Not sure why this is, but if you don't log out at the console, then your remote VNC session will not work (you will just get the gray screen)... I know it's not convenient, but this is all I have right now.
If you are sitting at the console, this means that you are sitting at the Screen and using the laptop keyboard. This is your console session. Now use VNC to connect in remotely. Open any apps you need, etc. Disconnect from your VNC connection. Connect back in via VNC. Your session is saved and you can continue working. If you log out via VNC, you are logging out of your remote session (not the console).
Connecting isnt a problem, but before I can enter any details into the multi user login screen it will freeze and become unresponsive to further keyboard input. Sometimes I can quickly type a few letters in, but it almost always freeze before I can finish typing my Mac username and password to log in.
I have read that some VNC clients (those on the iPad) have been updated so that you can login with the Mac's username and password instead of the VNC password, but none of the Windows VNC clients seems to be able to do this yet.
I am using Ultra VNC and occasionally have success. If you type fast enough, you can sometimes get in. Yesterday I was able to fine. Today I am not having not as good luck. I don't think that the encoding matters here, it seems to be more how quickly you can log in.
Please note however that connections cannot be established using the VNC Desktop Viewer to Screen Sharing built-in to Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion). For further information and release notes please visit: www.realvnc.com/products/enterprise
mariafrom_san_jose is right on! The Lion computer you're trying to connect to has to be logged off, which means the login screen is showing on the Lion computer. Only then, can you connect and type in your password to take over the screen. Basically, there is no "screen sharing" from the VNC family of products....yet.
I am using tightvnc to connect to a Lion Mac Book Pro, which is the same tightvnc i'm using from my PC to remote into other SL computers. I cannot type in my password unless the Lion computer is logged off. If the login screen is on the Lion computer, tightvnc will let me type in the password and take over the screen.
From the list of Browse Software, together with any of the Remote Desktop Software choose also one of Graphical Desktop environment. DietPi will install both of them, enabling you to use your keyboard and mouse to interact with a graphical desktop environment on your device.
The shared desktop mode is used to have more than one single VNC viewer connected to the same desktop session. To enable this mode, edit /boot/dietpi.txt, e.g. via nano /boot/dietpi.txt. Change to value 1 the following line:
By default DietPi will start a virtual VNC session on boot at screen :1 for user root.
The screen index can be changed via SOFTWARE_VNCSERVER_DISPLAY_INDEX in /boot/dietpi.txt. Logs can be viewed via journalctl -t Xvnc:1 -t vncserver and in /root/.vnc/. When you logout (instead of only closing the VNC Viewer window), the session will exit. Restart it via systemctl restart vncserver.
If you set SOFTWARE_VNCSERVER_SHARE_DESKTOP=1 in /boot/dietpi.txt or select desktop auto login via dietpi-autostart (index 2), RealVNC server will be started on boot in shared desktop mode, attaching to the first found local desktop session.
Check the service status via systemctl status vncserver-x11-serviced. Check all logs via journalctl -u vncserver-x11-serviced.
If you have an enterprise subscription on RealVNC, you can have virtual VNC sessions spawning automatically on demand per-client connection and closing once the client disconnects. That way no resource-intense X11/desktop session needs to be persistently active on the server to allow VNC connections.
To enable this, after adding your enterprise subscription credentials, do the following:
To connect to the desktop, open the remote desktop application in Windows (or any other XRDP compatible client).
Enter the IP address of your DietPi device, e.g. 192.168.0.100.
Click connect and enter the following details once connected:
It is sometimes reported that a Windows RDP session hangs on a black screen when trying to connect to an XRDP server.
This might be resolved using this instruction: How to Resolve Microsoft RDP Connection Black Screen
NoMachine is a remote desktop server with advanced features, such as screen recording. The client also scans for all available NoMachine servers on your network, allowing easy connection and maintenance of your remote desktops.
The base installation of this DietPi software package installs the VirtualHere server. Basically it starts as a trial version supporting only one single USB device. To overcome this, you need to buy a licence.
In some cases, the GUI client does not start an X11 window. This might be caused by a missing root permission to access X. In this case you need to execute xhost local:root in advance.
With this you need to execute (example 64 bit Intel machine where the VirtualHere client was copied to /usr/local/bin)
RealVNC has become popular not only for its appealing user interface, but also because of its faultless, swift and fast connection between the host and the client. There are notable contenders boasting the same powerful features and some of such software are UltraVNC, TightVNC, TridiaVNC, just to name a few. However, in my humble opinion, RealVNC seems to be most popular. I am still perplexed and confused how people tend to think that paid software is best. RealVNC is not free (at least, the Enterprise version), while the other software stated above are.
Now, coming to the crux of this article, how do you hide the tray icon. I understand that all the people viewing this piece of text use RealVNC to monitor other people. Lets be realist. If it were for you own purpose, a tray icon would not bother you at all, just like the time and the audio icon do not.
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Hey, you said that RealVNC 3 is completely stealth and that it doesnt have mouse flickering, but till wich version exactly? Also it would be great if you could if a link to that last working RealVNC 3 version and your exe for it. ? Thanks in advance.
The server will not automatically accept connections. Is there anyway around this because i have unchecked the box in settings, prompt local user to accept connections so it should do it automatically. Any ideas?
Unfortunately, the modified executable belongs to the RealVNC Enterprise version. Indubitably, when you overwrite the free version of the executable, you will be asked for a license. My advice is to google for a free license if you see what I mean.
I put all your files over to the realvnc directory, and it works fine on the server computer. But when I try to connect to the server from a viewer on my other computer it says that the server license key is missing, invalid, or expaired.
I bumped into your site while looking for a tweak on hiding vnc tray icons. I was hoping if you could a crack for version 4.5.1. This one i believe is better than the other version with IP filter and stuff added. hope you could make one. Thanks and keep up the good work.
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