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caseyo

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Jan 8, 2008
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I've been using the semi-secret, or at least buried Screen Sharing feature in Leopard.(System>Library>CoreServices>Screen Sharing) I'm having a very strange problem. I have one iMac and I want it to control another iMac remotely. Both have Leopard, and all the latest updates, and it works if you ask permission. It's just not very convenient to run back and forth to okay it every time. But here is the weird thing.

I've tested the screen sharing on a MacBook Pro, and it works perfectly. So I went to the iMac and set up the EXACT same settings as the MacBook. No Luck. I have Remote Management enabled in the preferences on the machine I want to control. I've tried multiple passwords, even just "1" to make sure I wasn't typing it in wrong. I've even tried using enabling the Screen Sharing preference and all the Remote Login and Remote Apple Events.

It's just really a mystery to me because the MacBook works seamlessly, but the iMac just won't cooperate. :p

I've tried restarting a million times and quadruple checked that all the latest updates were set up.

Is there like a setting somewhere thats not in the sharing preferences that I'm missing, I looked in Security to see if it was a Firewall problem, but you can't really edit and it says ARD is enabled.

This is a pretty obscure problem I know, but there is not really any documentation on this. I would really appreciate any help! Thanks!
 
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