![]() This is honestly what I would recommend - just give the mac it's own monitor. I use synergy to share one keyboard/mouse between the PC/Mac. I finally broke down and just bought an inexpensive 24" 1080p HDMI monitor for the mac & a vertical monitor stand so it didn't take up any more desktop space. None of those solutions would let you log in from a reboot though, so it still made it impossible to run headless. I also tried using splashtop for awhile - it actually handled the animations and other stuff in lion the best, but at the expensive of very high cpu usage. There's a 4.0 version of VINE which also works as a more PC compatible VNC server. I used a trial of RealVNC Enterprise as a Lion VNC server (since screen sharing was terrible when connecting from a PC), and it performed acceptably - but I wasn't going to pay for it. ![]() Performance (over a 1Gig Ethernet connection) was also pretty terrible, bordering on unusable (much, much, much worse than snow lion). I did have some luck getting RealVNC, TightVNC, and UltraVNC all to connect to screen sharing *after* I had logged in to the local console, but this made running headless awkward at best. The problem seems to be the user login screen - Apple changed how it interacts with screen sharing - so you will not be able to VNC into the mac after a reboot - without logging first at the local console. you end up installing both the server and the viewer. So I played that game to after picking up a new mac mini (from an old SL iMac). Download UltraVNC for Windows to access multiple PCs remotely from one machine. Doesn't really matter, they all work fine. exe le to install UltraVNC Server on the host. UltraVNC View topic - ChunkVNC Downloads and. Just turn on screen sharing and use TightVNC, RealVNC, UltraVNC, etc. Instructions Manuals Ultravnc The latest version 2014.12.16 now deploys Ultra-VNC 1.2.0.4 to computers Within the next day or so, you will see a bog post with instructions and a link to try. ![]() Edit: Reading OP fail - just caught you were still on 10.5.8 - everything below applies to lion, but before that just about any windows VNC client works fine. ![]()
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