KerbyServer

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 The unfortunate part is that all VNC clients on Mac OS X are out of date.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!