Screening share Qs

[irishgrizzly]

I want to access my home mac from work. Both have leopard. I have enabled screen sharing on both and got a vnc address.

I go to "connect to server" and enter the vnc code. Screen sharing boots up and tries to connect, but I get an error saying can't connect; check screen sharing is on.

Could the problem be that my home mac is behind the router firewall? Or do I need to accept the connect from the home machine?

 

[irishgrizzly]

Looking at the address it's something like XXX.XXX.X.1 and my home address is something like XXX.XXX.X.16, so I'm thinking that these are only good for a local network?

 

[MacBoobsPro]

If you have .mac/mobileme you can use 'Back To My Mac' to it. I'm not sure how else you would do it as Im not a 'network' guy. It's definitely possible though.

EDIT: I'm not sure why you need a VNC address when you are on your local network as you should just be able to select the device in the sidebar and click sharescreen/connect then just type in your password.

 

[irishgrizzly]

If you have .mac/mobileme you can use 'Back To My Mac' to it. I'm not sure how else you would do it as Im not a 'network' guy. It's definitely possible though.

EDIT: I'm not sure why you need a VNC address when you are on your local network as you should just be able to select the device in the sidebar and click sharescreen/connect then just type in your password.

I don't really want to pay for mobileme just to do this (I'd have little use for it otherwise).

Just to clarify – I have a machine in work and one at home at the other side of the city that I want to screen share with.

 

[edesignuk]

You will need to forward port 3283 on your router to the LAN IP of your home Mac.

 

[bpasker]

You would need to know your internet IP addess and setup port forwarding on your router.

You can visit a website like http://www.ip-adress.com/. This will tell you your external ip address. The next step would be to setup your router to port forword to your laptop.