I regularly need to connect from a Windows box to an OSX box over VNC.
Try TeamViewer. It has an ID for your computer that's tied to your account and can be used to control your computer from anywhere. I've used it to control OSX from Windows 10 and vice versa.
OSX has VNC built-in as part of its 'Screen Sharing' tool, but for some reason, it's much faster to connect from OSX to OSX or from OSX to Windows than it is to connect from Windows to OSX. (I use UltraVNC on Windows.) Windows to OSX connectivity is almost unusably slow, even when the two boxes are sitting right next to each other, plugged into the same router.
How can I improve performance in this case? Should I explore alternate Windows clients? Alternate OSX VNC servers? Should I use some other screen-sharing tool instead of VNC? (If so, what?)
(Note that this question is more specific than other more general questions.)
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OS X Leopard with its own ScreenSharing client, connecting to another OS X native screen sharing server, does some negotiation on colour depth, etc., so it's transferring less data.
(You can see this effect exaggerated if you connect to an OS X system from Windows using the RealVNC client over a higher latency connection. It will take a long time to build up the screen output.)
I couldn't find a way to make RealVNC request a lower colour depth so what I did, to work around this, was run a copy of VineServer on OS X with the '-maxdepth 8' option (and '-rfbport 5901' to run it as an alternate server), and connect to that when I connect long distance (which I always do through an SSH tunnel, before anyone states the obvious.)
I've switched from UltraVNC (back) to RealVNC, primarily because UltraVNC was not handling my multi-monitor server right.
Stijn SandersStijn SandersI found switching to Vine Server rather than the default Apple one made a huge difference to performance.
I experienced the same thing, but could not get UltraVNC or TightVNC to match the performance I expected. I was tipped of TeamViewer and it worked like a charm. The setup configured the computers for access and after letting them accept connections over LAN I got speedy remote control with full colours.
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I want to control my Windows box from my Mac. I installed RealVNC on Windows but it's impossible to connect from Mac. (Finder, Command+K) What should I do to do this?
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What is happening - are there any error messages? - Can you ping your windows machine from your mac?
A pretty easy alternative would be TeamViewer.
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1) Install...a good VNC server on Windows (UltraVNC probably the best on WXP)(TightVNC works well with W7)2) Check... if the Mac can 'see' the Windows PC (use the ping command inside the terminal app)3) Install 'Chicken of the VNC' on the Mac
Start 'Chicken..', write the Windows'IP number in the 'host' field, and connect... (good luck)
also, good starting points are:- don't use wireless, but use a 'cross cable' between the Mac and the PC (ask the cable to your computer dealer)- if the VNC client or the ping command shows 'timeout', then check and perhaps disable the firewalls on Windows (the embedded one and the one included with your antivirus) and disable the firewalls on the Mac (the embedded one and the commercial one if any (I use Intego))
be sure not to be connected to internet when disabling the firewalls
success? ok, now do the same with firewalls 'on' and wireless 'on' (may be a little harder...)
Notes:- RDP is not VNC, it opens a Windows remote session (usually not the same shown on the Windows monitor)- Ctrl-K is not VNC, it connects to SMB/CIFS shared directories
Hope this helps