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DeepIn2U

macrumors G5
Original poster
May 30, 2002
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hi everyone,

I'm hoping I can get a hand on how to fix this.

My Mac Mini running Snow Leopard 10.6.6 (previous issues to update from 10.6.5-10.6.6 resolved) is not allowing Screen Sharing on the same home network (WLAN/LAN) from my MB.

Setup: WLAN is MAC Filtered with Hidden SSID and WPA2 Personal = MB connects this way usually. Mac Mini is on LAN behind the WLAN router.
Initially installation of SL allowed connection, yet since various updates this has continually failed.

I am the "administrator" and yet changing the password is a bit screwed up. Going into System Preferences> Sharing> authenticated to make changes and Screen Sharing is enabled. Now Computer Name "MacMini" I click the EDIT button the "Use Dynamic global hostname" is checked, and hostname, username and pw is entered and unchecked for "Advertise services in this domain using Bonjour".

1. I cannot REMOVE the username or password nor can I disable this.
2. Screen Sharing=ON, selecting "Computer Settings": VNC users may control screen with password cannot be unchecked as well??

Is there anyway to fix this?

Thanks in advance.
 
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