[MacTUG] Lion and screen sharing

Donald Duff-McCracken dsmccrac at uwaterloo.ca
Tue Aug 2 11:42:19 EDT 2011


So Ed, you think this is related? I have heard there is an AD auth issue,
but it has not bit me yet as I have no Lion Macs authenticating with AD.




On 11-08-02 11:25 AM, "Edward Chrzanowski CSCF"
<echrzano at cscf.cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>> Hi there
>> I screen share a few machines and I had noticed that I could not
>>connect to=
>>  my lion macs using 'connect to server' > vnc://servername.stuff.stuff
>> 
>> It kept on saying that connection failed. I read a few places on line
>>that =
>> turning off "Remote Management" (Sys Prefs>Sharing) or turning off the
>>user=
>>  under this setting and then re-enabling things can resolve it.
>> 
>> I did this and it works. I did not do this in a reproducible-enough
>>manner,=
>>  as I cannot remember the order I did things in but I turned off remote
>>man=
>> agement and then turned it back on again, I deleted the user (me) and
>>then =
>> re-added me again, and stuff like that and things are now fine!
>> 
>> don
>
>Don there is a know problem with authentication and AD and lion.  A fix is
>coming soon in 10.7.1 The problem is global and Apple is working on it.
>




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