Screen sharing on startup ?

Question

Hi all,
Is it possible to start a screen sharing connection to another Mac upon booting up ? Like, a script that is added to the startup items ?
Thanks !

Answer 1

#1 Can you use the Terminal? #2 Here goes
On my Desktop I made a file with Pico:
#!/bin/bash
open vnc://USERnamegoshere:password@ip of the othermac
Save as whatever name you want file and then chmod u+x whatever name you want file
Ok here is the plist that I used to open screen sharing from Leo to Tiger:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.dougp.userstartup</string>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/dougp/Desktop/testsc</string>
<string>open</string>
</array>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>
The Tiger machine has to have, at minimum AppRemDTop going. And if you are going Leo to Leo, then ScrSharing going on the other mac. I don't know how to turn that stuff all on in a script.The plist goes in /Users/yourname/Library/LaunchAgents
Run launchctl load com.dougp.userstartup.plist You should be able to restart your machine and you'll get a screen from the connect to server from toolbar asking usual. If you want to avoid the password item then, well that's another story with sudoers.
Obviously you have to change some names. Now what have I forgot to enter here?
This I forgot. testsc is the Desktop executable(the Pico file)
Message was edited by: doug pennington