Ports To Open For Macos Screen Sharing

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  1. Aug 03, 2011  Screen sharing has been working fine remotely via port forwarding on my router on 10.6. I updated computers on both ends with Lion yesterday and now the screen sharing no longer works. I receive a similar behavior when I am using IPSECURITAS to connect to a remote network.
  2. Option A: Open a port for Screen Sharing (VNC) For the purpose of this example, we will open a public port set to 59107, but you could use any port allowed by your router. Note that some phone carriers are known to block non-standard ports, so if you experience connectivity issues, try using a commonly used port such as 80, 443, 22, or 8080.
  3. The open command in Terminal will, when given a vnc://1.2.3.4 (or vnc://hostname) protocol argument, open the Screen Sharing app and connect to IP address 1.2.3.4 (or hostname). robg adds: I was certain we'd covered this tip somewhere before, but all I can find is a brief mention in this comment to this hint about dict:// URLs.
  4. Oct 10, 2012 For VNC you would need to open ports 5900 & 5800 on the router and forward requests received on that port to the laptop and then when connecting with screen sharing use the IP address of the router. Or place the laptop in a DMZ on the router where all incoming traffic is directed to that computer.

Screen window. When you have the Screen Sharing app open, you'll see that it features just a single window that displays the desktop of another Mac computer. Jan 03, 2018  Since the client had a second Mac available, I decided to enable Screen Sharing on the MacBook Pro via Terminal, which allowed access to the faulty laptop over.

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Definitely useful, these vnc: URLs.
I keep vnc: URLs in my Safari bookmarks for each of the machines I need to connect to. This makes them available via Safari and Launchbar for quick access. If only it worked with Mocha VNC on my iPhone too..
In order to create a vnc: bookmark, I found I had to create a placeholder bookmark, then use 'Show All Bookmarks' and edit the URL.

Hey, I'll share an even easier way: type in vnc://ip.add.re.ss in firefox and skip this step. Another trick I use: I keep a subdomain vnc.domain.com to forward to my computer's external IP address. then all I need to do is tack on the vnc:// once I'm redirected.

Same works with Connect to Server int he Finder.

You can also add them as bookmarks and use utilities like LaunchBar to access them.

If you're using CoRD you can do the same thing for rdp sessions using rdp:// URLs. More details here

For those of us using Quicksilver, there’s an awesome* plug-in that indexes remote hosts and allows VNC, SSH, Telnet and many other types of connections.

* Yeah, OK, so I wrote it. :)

Ports To Open For Macos Screen Sharing Software

This very useful on our Kace KBox system to use as a managed action. Saves having to cut and paste. As Rob pointed out, other things like ssh://1.2.3.4 work as well.

Macos Screen Sharing Port

is there a way to specify which port to use?
will something like
open vnc://1.2.3.4:7900
work? what about specifying usernames and passwords?

I've been using Quickeys to create shortcuts to vnc connections; but I had to script key commands to open Go/Connect to Server then type. It sometimes actually crashed (and relaunched) the finder. Using a shell script is much cleaner.

Macos Screen Sharing Vnc

In 10.5 I remember doing something like this:
open vnc://USER:PASSWORD@myremote.com:port
Royal tsx for macos. Please be cautious when when your user name or password contains special characters.