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I wonder if anyone here has tried this. I would like to connect to the Mini at home from my work machine (Linux). Apple Remote Desktop is just VNC, but the server gives the following error:

Code: 
VNC server supports protocol version 3.889 (viewer 3.3)
VNC connection failed: Incompatible Version.

From what I could find online this is wrong - the is no 3.889 protocol and it uses stock protocols.

What I can't figure out is how to get the VNC clients to ignore this error and connect anyway?
 
koffiejunkie said:
I wonder if anyone here has tried this. I would like to connect to the Mini at home from my work machine (Linux). Apple Remote Desktop is just VNC, but the server gives the following error:

Code: 
VNC server supports protocol version 3.889 (viewer 3.3)
VNC connection failed: Incompatible Version.

From what I could find online this is wrong - the is no 3.889 protocol and it uses stock protocols.

What I can't figure out is how to get the VNC clients to ignore this error and connect anyway?
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What VNC viewer are you using and what options are you using?
 
Hi,
You can have a look at the following website; www.logmein.com
They have a client for Mac Tiger and Leopard as the machine being controlled and the machine that is doing the controlling only needs a web browser (Firefox works well)
The tool is free and works really well.
 
I haven't used a linux desktop in ages, but isn't there an option for any of those vnc clients to tell it to ignore protocol mismatches?

If not, your best then is to use a different vnc server on your mac.
 
That's what I thought too but I cannot find such an option anywhere. Can't find a solution in google either, which means it's probably not possible :)
 
Actually, I take that back - I saw a screenshot of an Ubuntu desktop with and OSX desktop in a window. But I'm guessing that may have been an older version of either.
 
OK, I figured it out. The configuration in OSX is a bit misleading. In the Sharing --> Remote Desktop secion there's a box that says "Enable VNC client with this password" or something such. Which I didn't think was necessary since I already had a valid user with password set up. Turns out if you enable this, it works after restarting the Mac.

Only problem is leaving the session open for a while makes the session hang at some point, and after that you can't connect again. Have to restart the Mac again (thank you ssh...).
 
koffiejunkie said:
OK, I figured it out. The configuration in OSX is a bit misleading. In the Sharing --> Remote Desktop secion there's a box that says "Enable VNC client with this password" or something such. Which I didn't think was necessary since I already had a valid user with password set up. Turns out if you enable this, it works after restarting the Mac.

Only problem is leaving the session open for a while makes the session hang at some point, and after that you can't connect again. Have to restart the Mac again (thank you ssh...).
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There is also the "Screen Sharing" (as opposed to "Remote Management" option which also uses VNC.
 
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