{"id":172,"date":"2012-03-28T23:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T06:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2017-02-27T21:42:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T05:42:28","slug":"vnc-to-os-x-lion-gratuitous-passwords-and-empty-grey-linen-desktops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/28\/vnc-to-os-x-lion-gratuitous-passwords-and-empty-grey-linen-desktops\/","title":{"rendered":"VNC to OS X Lion: Gratuitous Passwords and Empty Grey Linen Desktops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two tricks to using VNC from a non Mac to connect to a Mac running OS X Lion.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Turn on the VNC server by enabling <tt>System Preferences<\/tt> -&gt; <tt>Sharing<\/tt> -&gt;\u00a0 <tt>Screen Sharing<\/tt>. Even though it provides little security, a VNC password must be set so that OS X will present an authentication scheme that makes sense to a standard VNC client. Enable &#8220;<tt>VNC viewers may control screen with password<\/tt>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-175\" title=\"OS X Lion Screen Sharing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/Screen-Shot-2012-03-28-at-10.57.51-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/Screen-Shot-2012-03-28-at-10.57.51-PM.png 782w, https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/Screen-Shot-2012-03-28-at-10.57.51-PM-300x253.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>After connecting, you will see a grey linen-backgrounded desktop with nothing in it. Type your user name and password. After logging in, your desktop contents will display!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-179\" title=\"Screenshot at 2012-03-28 23:13:35\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/Screenshot-at-2012-03-28-2313351.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"807\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/Screenshot-at-2012-03-28-2313351.png 1682w, https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/Screenshot-at-2012-03-28-2313351-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2012\/03\/Screenshot-at-2012-03-28-2313351-1024x657.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two tricks to using VNC from a non Mac to connect to a Mac running OS X Lion. Turn on the VNC server by enabling System Preferences -&gt; Sharing -&gt;\u00a0 Screen Sharing. Even though it provides little security, a VNC password must be set so that OS X will present an authentication scheme <a href='https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/28\/vnc-to-os-x-lion-gratuitous-passwords-and-empty-grey-linen-desktops\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[91,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}