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Any remote desktop from anywhere. Use other desktops remotely, from a tiny screen or large monitors. Microsoft Remote Desktop App For OS X. With the Microsoft Remote Desktop app, you can connect.
Ubuntu can control an OS X machine remotely, using the default Remmina Remote Desktop Client application.
On the Mac:
- Open System Preferences (it's in the Apple menu)
- Open the Sharing panel
- Check the box Apple Remote Desktop
- Click Access Privileges
- Check the box VNC viewers may control screen with password, and enter a password
- Click OK
On Ubuntu:
- Launch Remmina Remote Desktop Client
- Select Connection > New from menu
- Select VNC - Virtual Network Computing as Protocol
- Fill Server field with either IP address or hostname of the Mac
- Optionally fill both User name and Password to make Remmina remember Your credentials Free animated wallpaper for mac computers.
- IMPORTANT: Set Color depth to High color (15 bit) or better, otherwise connection will fail
- Click Connect (or Save to reuse it later)
Your Mac's desktop should appear on your screen.
- xtightvncviewer: asks two times for authentization – first time in local terminal, the second one is on remote OS X login screen; some special applications (e.g. VirtualBox) running on the remote host can capture keyboard and thus make entering the credetials impossible.
- gnome-rdp: with xtightvncviewer installed and set as default vncviewer (run sudo update-alternatives --set vncviewer /usr/bin/xtightvncviewer in terminal)
- Mac os for vmware 11. xvnc4viewer: only with -FullColour, but very slow: xvnc4viewer -FullColour macserver
To work around authentication issues like 'Unknown authentication scheme' or such, it may help to enter this in Terminal (or over SSH):
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -verbose -activate -restart -agent -allowAccessFor -allUsers -privs -all -clientopts -setvnclegacy -vnclegacy yes -setvncpw -vncpw passwordYouWantToUse
Mac Os Download
- tsclient (Terminal Server Client)
- Vinagre (Remote Desktop Viewer)
- VNC
- tsclient
- Vinagre
Download Remmina
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