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VNC connection from Windows to Mac drops immediately

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Mar 15, 20264881 views
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This tutorial describes in detail how to setup a remote desktop from Windows to a Mac using putty tools and VNC. However, my connection is immediately dropped after authentication. (i.e. tunneling and login works, but somehow the VNC session cannot be properly established or displayed). Following o…

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I had the same issue using Remmina. After setting the Color depth to , the connection works fine. Full instructions: 1) Activate screen sharing on Mac OS X: 2) Connect with , using Mac username and password, and Color depth 3) Stop Screen Sharing wi…

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