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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / October 2006OSXvnc --- unknown message type
dear mac experts: I am trying to control my brand new mini via vnc from a remote linux machine. the first time it worked. (linux VNC Viewer 4.1.2) now I am getting the password, then the first interlaced draw of the screensaver, and then an abort with an "unknown message type". for more detail, it says "unknown message type 5" on my X vnc client. does this ring a bell? is OSXvnc fully compatible with other vncviewers? sincerely, /iaw In article <1160349135.602217.85750@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, > dear mac experts: I am trying to control my brand new mini via vnc > from a remote linux machine. the first time it worked. (linux VNC [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > X vnc client. does this ring a bell? is OSXvnc fully compatible with > other vncviewers? sincerely, /iaw It should be. But just to give you another point of comparison, and maybe a work around, you can enable Apple Remote Desktop. System Preferences -> Sharing -> Apple Remote Desktop Access Privileges... VNC viewers may control screen with password This should give you a different VNC server to try and if it works, you have a work around, and it also says you can control a Mac. Bob Harris this is how it was running all along... :-( is OSXvnc different from the apple remote desktop? [if they are different, can I stop the ADS service from the command line so as to try out simply OSXvnc?] [interestingly, now it gives me an unknown message type 242.] it would really be unfortunate if apple could not support this nowadays pretty basic protocol for remote graphical access. regards, /iaw > In article > <1160349135.602217.85750@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Bob Harris In article <1160519163.378131.214670@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, > this is how it was running all along... :-( is OSXvnc different from > the apple remote desktop? [if they are different, can I stop the ADS > service from the command line so as to try out simply OSXvnc?] Yes. OSXvnc is freeware from Redstone Software you download and install: <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16699> It would most likely be easier if someone local did the install, and configured OSXvnc. If you want to stop the Apple Remote Desktop from the command line you could try using launchctl man launchctl I have not played with launchctl, so I would have to figure it out myself :-) I did try a "sudo killall -9 AppleVNCServer", but a new version just starts up, which is why I suspect 'launchctl' is involved. Again, it might be easier if someone just turned Apple Remote Desktop off. You DO NOT want both running, as they will both most likely be looking to get control of port 5900. > [interestingly, now it gives me an unknown message type 242.] > > it would really be unfortunate if apple could not support this nowadays > pretty basic protocol for remote graphical access. Apple did not install Apple Remote Desktop for VNC users. Its primary purpose was to allow administrators (especially teachers) to maintain lots of Macs from a central location. And to that end, they sell the Apple Remote Desktop client software (at a hefty price) to work with the servers on individual Macs. The Apple Remote Desktop Admin guide has more information about configuring VNCviewer to be used with ARD. <http://images.apple.com/remotedesktop/pdf/ARD3_AdminGuide.pdf> Configuring an Apple Remote Desktop Client to be Controlled by a VNC Viewer, Chapter 7, page 85. There may be other useful VNC related information in there as well. I just searched for VNC. Do you have the Firewall enabled? On either system? Do you have a hardware firewall, or NAT router between the 2 systems? If you have a NAT router, did you arrange to forward port 5900 to the Mac mini, or if a firewall, open port 5900. Or are you attempting to tunnel VNC over an ssh tunnel? Are you trying to use VNC options that perhaps ARD doesn't support (for example, I don't think ARD supports the TightVNC compression protocols, and I think Linux vncviewer is a TightVNC implementation). NOTE: OSXvnc does support TightVNC compression. Bob Harris > regards, > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > > > Bob Harris > In article > Are you trying to use VNC options that perhaps ARD doesn't support [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Bob Harris hi bob: indeed, tightvnc seems to understand ARD, whereas the standard vnc implementation (http://www.realvnc.com/) does not. so, at last, one of my Mac problems is solved. thank you very much. regards, /iaw |
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