up vote 2 down vote favorite
share [g+] share [fb]

I've recently been testing OSX Lion and I've been trying to use the multiuser VNC functionality. However, when I try logging in the TightVNC or COTVNC, I'm presented with a list of users (including the currently locally logged in user) but I'm unable to select a user to log in as (i.e. click on the user icon/name) has no effect. Are Apple forcing us to use ARD or must we be running Lion on the remote machine to log in too?

link|improve this question
feedback

2 Answers

up vote 1 down vote

It looks like a bug in their new implementation of features into VNC. I just tried with RealVNC viewer and Chicken of the VNC. Since it claims to be implementing VNC, I submitted a Radar, mirrored on OpenRadar.

http://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=1204406

(I don't believe this is a violation of the NDA as I'm not revealing any new features.)

Also, you should check out AskDifferent.com, the Apple StackExchange. There's a lot more of "us" there than here.

link|improve this answer
Thanks for the input. I'm hoping they'll fix this soon because it really puts a downer on the OS for me. – Chris Robinson May 25 '11 at 8:14
feedback
up vote 1 down vote

This is a new feature of the ARD protocol, as implemented in Screen Sharing.app. I'm not sure that it's going to work in other VNC clients unless they use the ARD protocol (which I thought was proprietary.)

link|improve this answer
feedback

Your Answer

 
or
required, but never shown
discard

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.