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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Screen Sharing VNC Mac Post 302651039 by Tyler_92 on Monday 4th of June 2012 11:10:36 PM
Old 06-05-2012
Screen Sharing VNC Mac

Hello,
I am having some trouble using screen sharing with my Mac. There is a Mac Pro in the lab at my school, and I need to access it via screen sharing from my Macbook Pro from home. Each has Lion. The screen sharing works when I am in the lab and the Mac Pro is on the WiFi network, it also works using vnc when the Mac Pro is not connected to WiFi. The method I am using is go to "Go" in the Finder menu and then "Connect to server." Then I simply type vnc://(ip address or hostname). After doing this, it attempts to connect to the server and then pops up with

"Please make sure that Screen Sharing (in the Sharing section of System Preferences) is enabled on the computer to which you are attempting to connect. Also make sure your network connection is working properly."

I should point out that I made sure that Screen Sharing is enabled (as I said, it works when I am there) and also that the ssh remote connection through the terminal works. Does anyone have any thoughts on what the problem could be?
Thanks
Tyler

---------- Post updated at 11:10 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:55 PM ----------

Hmm.. It seems that the VNC software only connects computers that are on the same network. Is there some sort of application that works around this? I really need to work from my home.
 

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PERLMACOS(1)						 Perl Programmers Reference Guide					      PERLMACOS(1)

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README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic) SYNOPSIS
This document briefly describes perl under Mac OS (Classic). If you are running perl under Mac OS X, you don't want to be here (unless you are in the Classic environment under Mac OS X). When we say "Mac OS" below, we mean Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and not Mac OS X. DESCRIPTION
The latest perl source itself builds on Mac OS, with some additional pieces. Support for Mac OS is now in the perl core, and MacPerl is kept in close sync with regular perl releases. To build perl for Mac OS (as an MPW tool), you will need the addition of the macos subdirectory, distributed separately. It includes extra source files, config files, and make files. It also includes extra Mac-specific modules. To build the MacPerl application, you will also need the macperl directory, which includes the source files for creating the application itself. All of this is available from the development site, via HTTP (in the MacPerl Installer, which includes all the source and binaries) and anonymous CVS. http://dev.macperl.org/ The source is also in the main perl repository in the macperl branch (the 5.6 source is in the maint-5.6/macperl branch). You will also need compilers and libraries, all of them freely available. These are linked to from the SourceForge site. Go that site for all things having to do with MacPerl development. MacPerl 5.6.1 and later are supported on Mac OS 8.1 and later, for 68040 and PowerPC architectures. The MPW tool may be used on Mac OS 7.5.5 and 68030 computers. MacPerl 5.2.0r4 is also available, on the CPAN and on SourceForge. It is based on perl 5.004, and works with Mac OS 7.5.5 and 68030 com- puters. AUTHOR
perl was ported to Mac OS by Matthias Neeracher <neeracher@mac.com>. It is currently maintained by Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>. DATE
Last modified 2002.05.02. perl v5.8.9 2007-11-17 PERLMACOS(1)
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