VNC from Windows to Yosemite

bledd · 17 Mar 2015 at 09:13

Hi,

I have very little Mac experience. When VNCing to our Mac in work, I'm presented with the Mac login screen and not the current user's screen.

Being VNC, I'd expect to see the current screen.

Anything I need to change on the Mac to get this working?

I'm sure in the previous OS (Snow Leopard?) we could VNC into the current desktop.

shiver · 17 Mar 2015 at 11:50

Yup, on the Mac, perform this command :

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.RemoteManagement VNCAlwaysStartOnConsole -bool true

Edit: if you don't know how to do that, you might want to ask someone who does to do it

bledd · 4 Apr 2015 at 00:56

I probably touch it about once every 6 months

Open a Terminal as admin and then type that in?

bledd · 27 Apr 2015 at 16:55

Just got round to applying this.

Worked a treat.

Thanks

bledd · 8 May 2019 at 10:18

Just googled how to do this and found my own thread

Thanks again @shiver

Also, it needs a reboot after doing so.

shiver · 13 May 2019 at 16:30

Excellent!