Windows ultra vnc connecting to iMac

I am trying to do remote screen sharing from my Windows XP laptop to my iMac. I have screen sharing set up on my iMac. I try and connect to it with Ultra VNC, it prompts me for the password I set up on my iMac and then for an instant shows up on my screen and then closes with no error. Any ideas as to why this is not working?

I am able to get the VNC connection from XP (UltraVNC) to the Mac (with Screen Sharing enabled). The connection only works at the highest screen quality (select AUTO settings under the Quick Options in ultra).
My problem is that I'm trying to connect with a lower resolution to improve speed/refresh, since I'm connecting through the ether and not on a LAN. Anyone figured out how to connect with 16, 64, or 256 colors from UltraVNC?

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Hello stiannac
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Hi guys,
I am having dificulties connecting from iMac to Windows Home Server 2011 shares.
First of all it takes so long time to discover the share in iMac, which it's called "mediaserver". After finding it i cannot connect and gives "Connection Failed: message. If i choose "Connect As.." option i wait some time and then pops out with an error: "There was a problem connecting to the server "mediaserver". The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again."
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Welcome to the Apple DIscussions!
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A stable, fast reliable VNC connection to Lion or Lion server

I hope this post help people with VNC setup from non Mac machines to a Mac running Lion or Lion Server 10.7.4.
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http://www.realvnc.com/download/vnc/latest/
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Single User Host setup
==================
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+Change the default port from 5900 to 5901 and serve Java viewer on Port from 5800 to 5801
+ Change Authetication to "Mac password"
+ Select Encryption "always on"
- Selct the expert tab
+scroll down to the bottom of the list and change "StopUserModeOnSwitchOut" to "no"
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- select "Apply"
(now if you open the Information Center" again, the port conflict problem should be solved.
- select "open" from the VNC server menu:
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- In addition you will find the address that the client user will need to connect to the VNC server on the host
it will say something like "VNC viewer user can connect using the address 192.168.x.y:1"
Note: If you start several VNC servers, each session will need a dedicated port (like 5902, 5903 etc)
Router/Firewall Settings:
===================
Depending on the router/firewall you use your ports may have been automatically configured for you (airPort extreme for example).
You need to open port 5901 and 5801 and forward these ports to the IP address of the host. If ARD was alredy working in your setup, you can copy the port coniguration for ports 5900, 3283 and 3306 that are used by ARD and implement the same rules for the new port used by VNC 5901.
Review the settings of your firewall/router.
VNC client
========
- download the VNC client for your OS from
http://www.realvnc.com/download/viewer/
and follow the install instructions.
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- Encryption : "Let VNC Server choose"
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=================
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- repeat the configuration outlined above for each user (eg. "StopUserModeOnSwitchOut" to "no")
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Final notes:
=========
I spent hours trying to get a variety of VNC viewers to work with the new screen sharing/VNC implementation in Lion and finally gave up. I called Apple Enterprise support and they confirmed that "a majority of the existing VNC products are not compatible with the new VNC implementation in Lion yet and that Apple recommends ARD". The discussion on what other non Mac users (Windows, Linux) should do did not go anywhere....
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http://www.realvnc.com/products/vnc/
I personally installed the enterprise edition after I verified that the free editions worked stable and reliably as I needed them to work.
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The main Options... window shows the Connections tab and I just changed my port to something other than 5900 and the port conflict went away.
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This has been an ongoing annoyance for some time now.
I cannot get my G4 iMac running the latest updated Tiger to connect to a PC running Win2K (home network) through a basic router and junction box.
Both are connected to the internet (DSL) via a router, then one of those "splitter" or junction boxes (what's the right term for this thing?) -- the connection goes from the DSL outlet on the wall, to the router, then into this junction box, which then connects the iMac and the PC to the net.
No problems with the net connection for both machines.
Way back when I first had a different PC connected to this configuration, I COULD see the PC from the iMac, and vice versa. File sharing worked seamlessly.
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Clicking on the "Computers Near Me" icon (nothing but the PC itself shows up)
Clicking on the "Add Network Place" icon (cannot find the iMac no matter what I type into the window, or when I click "Browse")
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I know I can go out and buy "Dave" to possibly get this working ... but I shouldn't have to, Tiger has been touted as the most amazing networking thing yet. And, it worked before.
Is there a way to run a diagnostic on the networking function of Tiger? Could it have possibly been damaged?
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This has been an ongoing annoyance for some time
now.
I cannot get my G4 iMac running the latest updated
Tiger to connect to a PC running Win2K (home network)
through a basic router and junction box.
Both are connected to the internet (DSL) via a
router, then one of those "splitter" or junction
boxes (what's the right term for this thing?)
you could mean a hub or a switch, but how many ports does your router have?
the connection goes from the DSL outlet on the wall, to
the router, then into this junction box, which then
connects the iMac and the PC to the net.
No problems with the net connection for both
machines.
Way back when I first had a different PC connected to
this configuration, I COULD see the PC from the iMac,
and vice versa. File sharing worked seamlessly.
Then one day, for no good reason, the Mac could no
longer "see" the PC ... but the PC could see the
iMac. So I resigned myself to swapping files to and
from the PC.
Just recently, I changed internet providers for my
DSL, resulting in an entirely new IP address setup
for each machine. Both machines now get the net. But
now NEITHER machine can see the other.
This is not normal your internal ip addresses would remain the same even if when you change your ISP.
From the Mac, I have tried:
Clicking on the Network icon in the Finder
Typing various different things into the window that
results when I click "GO" then "Connect To Server" --
the IP address of PC, the name of the PC, etc.
Ensuring "Windows file sharing" is engaged in the
"Sharing" window of the System Preferences
Ensuring "Appleshare" is on
Ensuring the firewall allows traffic with windows
file sharing
From the PC I have tried:
Ensuring the main drive is shared
Installed every network sharing device I could
(TCP/IP, etc)
From the "My Network Places" window, tried "adding a
new network place" (iMac doesn't show up)
Clicking on the "Computers Near Me" icon (nothing but
the PC itself shows up)
Clicking on the "Add Network Place" icon (cannot find
the iMac no matter what I type into the window, or
when I click "Browse")
Why is this so difficult? Why won't it work now when
it did before? Why has the machine-to-machine
capability of seeing each other steadily degenerated
over time?
It sounds to me your network needs to be troubleshooted before we can answer that.
I know I can go out and buy "Dave" to possibly get
this working ... but I shouldn't have to, Tiger has
been touted as the most amazing networking thing yet.
And, it worked before.
You don't need Dave at all. Samba is the pc filesharing protocol and that is built into Tiger.
Is there a way to run a diagnostic on the networking
function of Tiger? Could it have possibly been
damaged?
Yes there is away to diagnose your problem we can work on that.
Any suggestions?
What is the make and model of your dsl modem?
What is the make and model of your router? What is the make and model of the box your refer to as splitter.
Also goto the network preferces of your mac and post back what your ip address is and what router ip address you have.
On your pc goto the start menu, click run, enter the work 'command' press enter.
In the dos window type
ipconfig
press enter
and post back the results.

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I try to enable screen sharing from Mac OS X as VNC server and we would like to use a Windows client as VNC client.
I try to anable it from system pref., set the password, ecc.
When I insert VNC password from Windows, VNC send me this message.
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Thank you
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