Screen Sharing Broken

[sananda]

Screen Sharing hasn't worked the past couple of days for me. I think this is since there was a Remote Desktop update.

Any ideas what I should do?

Thanks.

 

[mlemonds]

works fine for me... details plz

 

[sananda]

When I click on "Share Screen ..." in Finder, Screen Sharing opens but does not open the window in which I would normally see the other computer's screen.

This is on my iBook G4. All works fine the other way around using my iMac G5.

 

[El Phantasmo]

have you tried turning it off and on again?


seriously, i sometimes fix screensharing issues by restarting both macs...

 

[sananda]

just restarted both of them. same deal as before regrettably.

 

[tbs007]

just restarted both of them. same deal as before regrettably.

I have the same problem as you, although my iMac can see my MBP screen but not the other way , unless I add a new account - then it works but that's not a preferred option as I'm sure a new account would require Time Machine backup to start all over again?

I have tried repairing permissions with no luck, it does however work over iChat, and I can connect to the iMac through normal finder file sharing just not Screen Sharing.

Anybody have any ideas?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[davak]

Same problem for me. Screen sharing no longer works since the last update.

Davak

Screen Sharing hasn't worked the past couple of days for me. I think this is since there was a Remote Desktop update.

Any ideas what I should do?

Thanks.

 

[sananda]

I've sent feedback to Apple alerting them to this problem.

 

[janph76]

Same thing here...hope a fix is coming soon

 

[wickerbone]

Me too

Screen Sharing works from my G5 to my MacBook, but not the other way. Very annoying. I got it to connect once by manually entering the G5's local IP, but only once.

Ironically, Jaadu still works fine from my iPhone...

 

[sananda]

hope a fix is coming soon

there don't seem to be very many of us experiencing this problem so it may not have even come to apple's attention in any major way.

 

[wickerbone]

Fixed!

Ok, by following these instructions:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2577?viewlocale=en_US

and downloading this:

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/appleremotedesktop32client.html

I have reverted back to Remote Desktop Client 3.2.1 and it seems to work as it should now. Be careful with Terminal if you're not used to it.

 

[janph76]

Thanks "wickerbone". I tried your suggestion and it worked!!
Now it's back to normal.

 

[websyndicate]

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1730539&tstart=0

I dont think its the remote desktop client. If you create a second account and test it though there you will see it works still. I a security issues that can be fixed in your Key Chain follow the link.