Re: Apple Remote Desktop - VNC Not Working Well

In article <110420062140511793%star@xxxxxxx>, Davoud <star@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have four 10.4.6 Macs with Apple Remote Desktop turned on and VNC
installed. I am unable to connect to two of them from any other machine
without disabling the firewall on those two machines, in spite of what
appears to the eye to be identical firewall settings on all four
machines in every regard.

This sounds to me like you need to match the port VNC uses on your two
renegade Macs. This may have nothing to do with your firewall setup.

The question is what port your VNC 'server' and 'client' applications
are using to communicate. Yes, the port should be open in your
firewalls, but it also needs to be set in your VNC apps.

I have OSXvnc on my target Macs using port 5900, which is what VNC
typically uses. My client of choice is VNCThing, all I need for my
purposes.

The documentation for your VNC applications should help you with proper
setup.

:-Derek

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Frederick Brooks: I happily use a Macintosh. It's not been equalled for ease
of use, and I want my computer to be a tool, not a challenge.
<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363107/>
[Frederick Brooks is the author of 'The Mythical Man Month'. He spearheaded
the movement to modernize computer software engineering in 1975]
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