Mac OS X VNC clients suck
EPKPhoto — 16 June 2007 - 4:22pm
With the recent upgrades to Fedora 7 I have done on several systems, I have become more aware of the terrible state of VNC clients on Mac OS X. The issue arose when I set up Remote Desktop (vino) preferences on the Fedora 7 systems. The VNC client on other Fedora 7 systems and the Tight VNC viewer on Windows have no problem connecting to Fedora 7's vino server. I have found that the VNC viewer in Fedora Core 6 and any VNC client on Mac OS X throw back an "Authentication failure" when connecting. After typing in the target computer's hostname, the password prompt appears as usual. After entering the correct password, however, the authentication failure occurs.
I must assume that this is due to VNC version differences in the Fedora Core 6, Fedora 7, and Mac OS X clients. The unfortunate part is that all VNC clients on Mac OS X are out of date. Arguably one of the most popular OS X VNC clients, Chicken of the VNC's latest release is a year and a half old. Compared to other operating systems, the state of VNC client support on Mac OS X is sad. I can only hope that changes in the future. I would really like to be able to access my Fedora systems from Mac OS X again!
Tried NX?
Anonymous (not verified) — 28 March 2010 - 12:23pmHave you given freenx a shot? You can install freenx server in fedora and the NoMachine NX client on the mac. It will probably give you better performance than straight vnc. And the client probably sucks less on the mac.
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