Sharing Desktop

When I am at my home on the wireless network my room mate can access my desktop. How can I turn this off so this does not happen.

oh, I totally misunderstood you. yes, there are several options for screen sharing in leopard. you can do it via ichat (that might be the easiest).
I strongly suggest you try that first.
you can also use leopard's built in screen sharing. you and your friend need to enable screen sharing in system preferences. if you are both on the same local network that's all you need to do. you'll see each other's computers in the sidebar and when you click on it there will be a button to share screen.
if you are not on the same network then you (and your friend) will most likely need to enable port forwarding on your routers and forward port 5900 from the router to the computer. then to screen share you'll have to use Go menu in Finder->connect to server and in the resulting popup you'll have to enter
vnc://ip.address.of.your.friend
you'll have to put the ip address of your friend's computer in the above.
The above procedure might be challenging for a novice so I would highly recommend you try ichat first. screen sharing via ichat is completely straightforward.

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After updating to the latest video drivers from the ThinkVantage Update Retriever, our Lync clients crash when sharing desktop on our T440P series and X240 series. I noticed when I uninstall the video driver I am able to screen share without incident. Also, if I update the driver from Windows Update I am able to share successfully. We use the update retriever and thininstaller to install our drivers in our environment. I have tried uninstalling the Lync updates all the way down to the base version and experience the same issue at every level. It crashes 100% of the time when sharing desktop. I have tested it on T440p machines in our environment that do not have the latest display driver, and no crashes occurred. Here are the specifics:
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Just as an updated to this:
I'm still waiting on updated drivers to fix the issue, however, there is a workaround. If you disable Desktop Composition screen sharing will work.
Control Panel -> Performance and Information Tools -> Adjust Visual Effects -> Uncheck “Enable desktop composition
John

Sharing desktop with Leopard

Hi there everybody.
Not sure if this is the right place to post my question so my apologies if it has been done already somewhere else.
Question is simple:
is it possible to share a Tiger desktop remotely from Leopard OSX?
Leopard to Leopard desktop sharing works just great with the built in ARD features however, in the Leopard finder "server" section, also my shared Tiger machines appear to be available.
Unfortunately, if I try to access remotely one of this desktops, the "contacting" window pops up but stays on forever without actually creating the connection.
I have enabled everything on the server-side (Tiger computer) such as ARD, file sharing, remote login, visitor access...
Is there anything I am still missing here or sharing desktop Leopard to Tiger is simply not possible without suitable Client s/w running on the Leopard side?
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If you're referring to the screen sharing built into Leopard, I'd suggest you ask in the Networking Leopard forum (or perhaps the Using Leopard forum). You'll be more likely to get an answer there, since (at least in theory) everyone posting here is using or asking about the Apple Remote Desktop application.
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How to detect real desktop and remotely accessed(screen shared) desktop?

Hi All,
On Mac Os the Screen Sharing feature is similar to Remote Desktop Service. Is there a way to determine whether the terminal where we are starting the application(our own application) is real desktop or remotely accessed (screen shared) desktop?
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I have booted(logged in) the Mac A sytem with user1 account. From another Mac B machine, i will login to user2 account of Mac A sytem using Screen sharing feature. My application has to run only on real desktop, not on remotely accessed desktop(screen shared). So Is there a way(programmatically) to determine whether the terminal where I am starting the application is real desktop or remotely accessed (screen shared) desktop?
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Thanks & Regards,
Vinay

Have a look at the 'Son Of Grab' sample code, it shows you how to grab elements of the screen individually.

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When others control your desktop, it is unavoidable to see the flashing mouse pointer.
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Flashing Mouse pointer when sharing desktop

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Hello, I have a macbook pro 13 "core i5, 4GB with Intel graphics card, which Iupdated with OS X lion and want to share the desk with a monitor 22" DELLbrand yet I activated the option to desktop sharing, but plug the same monitoron another mac book 13 "but with NVIDIA graphics card and if he worksnormally, that can happen? the video card is not ready for desktop sharing?there is a share command to force desktop and / or auto-detect the second monitor? I could lend a hand?
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Window may be in the Full Screen mode.
Move the cursor to the top of the window and click the blue double arrow icon at the top right corner.
That will make the window revert back to the normal size.
You can press "esc" key to exit the Full Screen mode.
Best.

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I would not recommend this and keep the package cache and the client on the same non-persistent drive and enable the Shared Content Store. If you separate the cache and the App-V client they could get out of sync and strange behaviour can occur.
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You can use the Shared Content Store so packages will stream over the network. When the user logs on there is a publishing phase where shortcuts etc are created for the user, this will take some time.
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I have a 64bit Arch setup on my media center.
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It works for me just fine. (server: x86_64, client Lubuntu arm).
I am not sure I fully understand your first post, this is how I tested it:
Let's have users foo and bar, both have user account on the server.
The server's /etc/group lists _both_ foo and bar as users of group "x2godesktopsharing".
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User bar can choose "View Only" after highligting the single item of "foo on DISPLAY :0".
User foo is asked if he agrees with the incoming connection and can "grant" the user bar to access his desktop also in the future.
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