Apple, why do you insist on taking away useful functionality? Case in point, Screen Sharing? MacWorld had this really nice tip on adding more power to screen sharing which was so simple to do. Now, with the latest update, you take it away. What gives? What, you think we want to be on a 13″ [...]
Took me a few minutes, but I was able to get OS X new Screen Sharing (dressed up VNC) to tunnel over SSH. Here’s what I did:
In Terminal:
Tunnel to the machine you want to connect to: ssh -L 2200:localhost:5900 myuser@mymachine.com
In Firefox (or Safari, etc.): vnc://localhost:2200
That command will launch the Screen Sharing app. Enter your password, [...]
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