Screen sharing

Tue Oct 29 12:53:57 EDT 2013

The monitor isa working that is how I know screen sharing is turned on.  I originally thought that the glitch some how turned it off.  I have turned it on and off several times but I still cannot connect the screens.

Henk

On Oct 29, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Chuck wrote:

> In order to get the screen to work you have to restart the computer. Mac's will not recognize a screen if it is plugged in while the machine is on.
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> Chuck
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> On Oct 29, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Hendrik van Eeden <hvaneeden at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> I seem to have bigger problems than I thought.  I hooked up a monitor and the screen sharing is turned on, but it will not connect.I can access the hard drive  and the files on the mini so the connection must be Ok.
>> What am I missing?  This has worked for years this way.
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>> 
>> Henk
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>> On Oct 29, 2013, at 12:02 PM, James Sentman wrote:
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>>> On Oct 29, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Hendrik van Eeden <hvaneeden at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>>> Isn't there some terminal commands that I can put in a 'do shell script'?
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>>> Every so often mine will refuse several connection attempts in a row so first just try again and see. Do you have SSH enabled? You can do a “sudo reboot” from the terminal if you can log in that way and give it a clean restart and see if that gets it back going again.
>>> 
>>> there are some examples here for how to enable screen sharing from the command line if it’s turned off but otherwise working OK:
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>>> http://pivotallabs.com/enabling-os-x-screen-sharing-from-the-command-line/
>>> 
>>> but I wouldn’t want to try to set that up via a do shell script command, only via SSH at the terminal. The reboot you could do through XTension’s do shell script command though, but you’d need to redirect the password like:
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>>> do shell script “echo YourPassword | sudo -S /sbin/reboot"
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 	James
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