As the developer toolbox grows, you’ll start to have “fun times” connecting to all the test machines. Of course there are times when you just want to use one keyboard and mouse. My desk would be a nasty place to hang out without SSH and VNC.
Imagine, if you will, a debian based gnome desktop. Nice, they have remote desktop built-in. Hey, lets connect to our nice OSX box which also has VNC client/server built-in. Oops. Doesn’t work.
Just make sure you setup your OSX Leopard preferences as follows in this screenshot:
On your Linux desktop you’ll need to install the apt package version of xtightvncviewer:
box$ sudo apt-get install xtightvncviewer
You’re good to go. Connect to your OSX box now.
box$ xtightvncviewer [ip address]
#1 by Govindaya on March 16th, 2009
This may not be revelant but i figured i’d post this anyway. If you’re using ubuntu 8.10 you may be in for some issues with the network manager. For some unknown reason it stops functioning. You will need to manually set you’re resolv.conf with your ISP’s DNS servers. That file is located in /etc/network/resolv.conf