Teamviewer on OS X

glenimp617 · 26 Feb 2014 at 12:59

I've been a VERY happy Logmein user, but I'm a tight git so when they started charging for it, I jumped ship

If whatsapp can become a $19 Billion company whilst charging nothing, I ain't paying £20 or whatever to use logmein

anyway, I've installed team viewer and well.....it's a bit rubbish

I know my mac is on, it's on the network and team viewer is working....or it was an hour ago at least. When I try now, it says that my machine is not online :confused:

Power saving is on AC and disabled so I'm pretty sure it hasn't gone to sleep

should I just pay the £20

ChocolateStarfishRammer · 26 Feb 2014 at 13:00

I've switched to Teamviewer since Logmein.. runs on all my equipment and haven't had an issue with the mac!

glenimp617 · 26 Feb 2014 at 13:07

ChocolateStarfishRammer said:
I've switched to Teamviewer since Logmein.. runs on all my equipment and haven't had an issue with the mac!

Must be a setting somewhere on mine :confused:

how come it worked this morning, but not now. Sounds like power savings, but I think they are off

ChocolateStarfishRammer · 26 Feb 2014 at 13:34

Something like that maybe. Didn't change anything on mine in particular that wasn't already set.

Give it a google!

Memphis · 26 Feb 2014 at 16:06

All I can add is that I've used TeamViewer across all my platforms and it works perfectly, and always has.

memyselfandi · 26 Feb 2014 at 21:40

I have had the same issue as the OP at random with TeamViewer under OSX with it randomly appearing to be offline (particularly after you connected and disconnected from it previously).

No power saving (the box in question is my Plex server so is on all the time) and I have no idea why it does it.

glenimp617 · 13 Mar 2014 at 10:48

memyselfandi said:
I have had the same issue as the OP at random with TeamViewer under OSX with it randomly appearing to be offline (particularly after you connected and disconnected from it previously).

No power saving (the box in question is my Plex server so is on all the time) and I have no idea why it does it.

Yes, it does seem to happen after I have disconnected. If I come back to it a little later, it thinks it's offline :confused:

Housey · 14 Mar 2014 at 21:31

I run team viewer on my mac to support family pc's, works fine.

memyselfandi · 14 Mar 2014 at 21:52

I have a suspicion that it's related to the box which is put up after you disconnect (the one about staying honest and only using the free version for non-commercial use). If you are just using it to remote into family machines then they probably clear the box after you disconnect ... but if you are remoting into a headless box for instance then no one would be able to clear it ... and I wonder if nothing clears that box after a set time then it stops the software ...