Remote Desktop Madness

Heh, just yesterday I was looking for newer VNC clients and was trying them with Tiger's built-in VNC server. I didn't go that nuts, but I did get around to controlling the G5 in the basement from the G5 in the den from the Mac Pro at my desk. And it wasn't even that slow. :)

You can't to this easily on Windows XP with its Remote Desktop. It tries to be smart about it. However, I once managed to port forward with SSH and connect my PC to itself. The result? Hardware text screen, all black, with a blinking text cursor in the top left. Stylin'. Had to turn the PC off to fix it.

What ever it is, it's wonderful :-)
I like the comment "This must be the first real 3D-Desktop." Absolutyl priceless.

Thanks, everybody for starting me off with a smile today.

I got ARD to observe my computer using the built-in VNC client. It didn't lock up either. I was able to do everything at normal speed. The windowed machines just took a while to update.

"Mr. Sulu, all ahead warp factor 9."

The reason this occured was because I was trying to connect from mac A to mac B over SSH - I'd just forgotten to setup the port forward and disable my local ARD service.

Therefore when I connected to localhost it connected to itself.

I was having a senior moment :-)

-Chris-

@Ted & ossiejnr, Apple doesn't expect dumba$$es to do this…

Actually any VNC client will do the same thing. I did this on a windows machine several months ago.

I agree - I had to SSH in as well to kill off the ARD process.

-Chris-

It's kind of pathetic that the UI locks up when you do this, and a direct result of OS X having only one UI thread for every running application to share. I actually tried this a few weeks ago with Chicken of the VNC and had to ssh in from another machine to kill the process before I could use my computer again. Bad design from the hacks at Apple.