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]