Screen Sharing with Leopard Extends to Tiger

Moshe asks...

> Can one use screen sharing in any meaningful way? Ideally, can I
> access my office machine from home?
>
> Both machines are Tiger at the moment. One falls below the upgrade
> requirements.

I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that the screen sharing
feature of Leopard lets me observe and control my home desktop
machine, running Tiger, without incident. I just had to set the
Remote Desktop preferences on the Tiger machine. I suspect the other
way around doesn't work unless you've bought Apple Remote Desktop for
the machine that will still be running Tiger; the Remote Desktop
client software that's built into Tiger doesn't let you control other
machines.

  Mark H. Anbinder | mhatidbits.com
  Contributing Editor, TidBITS | http://www.tidbits.com/

On Nov 2, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Mark H. Anbinder wrote:

> Moshe asks...
>
>> Can one use screen sharing in any meaningful way? Ideally, can I
>> access my office machine from home?
>>
>> Both machines are Tiger at the moment. One falls below the upgrade
>> requirements.
>
> I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that the screen sharing
> feature of Leopard lets me observe and control my home desktop
> machine, running Tiger, without incident. I just had to set the
> Remote Desktop preferences on the Tiger machine. I suspect the other
> way around doesn't work unless you've bought Apple Remote Desktop for
> the machine that will still be running Tiger; the Remote Desktop
> client software that's built into Tiger doesn't let you control other
> machines.

To control a Leopard from a Tiger, you could use ARD or you could
configure Leopard to allow other VNC clients to work with it. They
may have changed the wording but this configuration option in Tiger
says "VNC viewers may control screen with password." You check a box
and set a password which is system-wide and independent of any
account login. One of Leopard's improvements over Tiger is supposed
to be better compatibility with non-ARD VNC clients like Chicken of
the VNC.

On or about 11/2/07 5:13 AM, thus spake "Mark H. Anbinder"
<mhatidbits.com>:

> Moshe asks...
>
>> Can one use screen sharing in any meaningful way? Ideally, can I
>> access my office machine from home?
>>
>> Both machines are Tiger at the moment. One falls below the upgrade
>> requirements.
>
> I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that the screen sharing
> feature of Leopard lets me observe and control my home desktop
> machine, running Tiger, without incident. I just had to set the
> Remote Desktop preferences on the Tiger machine. I suspect the other
> way around doesn't work unless you've bought Apple Remote Desktop for
> the machine that will still be running Tiger; the Remote Desktop
> client software that's built into Tiger doesn't let you control other
> machines.

But Chicken of the VNC does. I wrote the whole Spotlight article sitting at
my Tiger machine, looking at my Leopard machine through Chicken of the VNC.
Not perfect, but it did work. m.