10.5 ::: Leopards screen sharing over the internet
Posted by: fidel in mac, tags: 10.5, nat, networking, screen sharing, ssh://, tunnel, vncFound an article regarding screen sharing in 10.5 over the internet here
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There seems to be an odd bug in the Screen Sharing application. Since my iMac screen is much bigger than my iBook screen, Screen Sharing starts out with a scaled view of the iMac screen. Despite the reduced size of everything, I kind of like this view because I can see the whole iMac desktop without scrolling. Unfortunately, mouse clicks and keystrokes donâ t seem to registerâ the window doesnâ t update. The workaround Iâ ve discovered is to choose Turn Scaling Off from the View menu (which zooms in to a full-sized view of a portion of the iMac screen) and then immediately change back by choosing Turn Scaling On. Now everything works as it should.
Itâ s possible that SSH tunneling is unnecessary. My experience with VNC on Linux was that the VNC protocol was unencrypted, so all the data was passing through the internet in the clear. Running VNC through an SSH tunnel was more secure because it encrypted the data before passing it along the network. The Screen Sharing application has a preference setting for encrypting all data, which may be just as secure as running everything through a tunnel. If thatâ s the case, you could just apply port forwarding to port 5900 at the base computerâ s router and connect from the satellite to the routerâ s publicly-addressable IP number. But for now Iâ m going to stick with the security Iâ m familiar with. Also, I sometimes tunnel other ports through SSH, which can be very nice for things like directly accessing my work computerâ s web server.
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