VNC to iMac from iBook & windows

I'm looking to set up my iMac at my house so that I can VNC into it from my iBook while on the road, and also my windows box @ my work. I've already enabled screen sharing, remote login, and remote management on the iMac, and port forwarded 5900 on my home router to my iMacs internal IP, but still cant seem to connect.
The iMac has a staic internal IP, and I know my external IP address at home. I'm trying to use tightVNC @ work, and connect to server (apple + k) in finder and typing in: vnc://70.xxx.xxx.xxx:5900 from my iBook to initiate the screen sharing session, but neither of them work. iBook & iMac are running 10.5.8. I was wondering if there is something I should do differently.

I know that outgoing ports are not blocked as I can successfully Remote Desktop to my Windows 2008 Server I have at home from work, and our company's tech support uses nothing but TightVNC. As for the iBook to iMac VNC, i'm trying to use the Mac OS 10.5.8 built in VNC features without having to use any 3rd party software.

Similar Messages

I have recently changed to an iMac from a Windows PC. How do I delete files and format the memory card in my helmet cam?

I have recently changed to an iMac from a Windows PC. How do I delete files and reformat the memory card in my helmetcam?

If you return the memory card to the helmetcam, it may choose to reformat it before use; back to some FAT-16 or FAT-32 format many of these third-party cards and cameras use. Unless you were going to use it for Mac OS X and format it with HFS+ or in a partition map for Mac data, etc.
If not, the easiest way to reformat the card may have been in the camera itself. I've formatted several kinds of camera cards, drives, USB flash drive, and others. The means varies with the intended purpose. Sometimes the default is the best; since it is platform neutral if the device is seen by both players.
Good luck & happy computing!

Can't access my iMac from a Windows 98 PC

When I was prompted for password on the PC running Win 98, I simply clicked "OK" as I had not set any user password on my iMac. However, I got the "wrong password" message and therefore failed to access my iMac from that PC.
On the PC, I could ping the iMac without problems. I can also access the PC from my iMac. I have the username on the PC that is exactly the same as the one I have enable "Windows Sharing".
Any clues on this?

Thanks James.
I tried but without luck. The issue is, it prompts me for password and whatever I input, it says wrong password. In fact, I do not have any password set on my iMac and therefore I should be let through if I simply click the "OK" button on the password dialog without putting anything in the password field.

Stop iMac from seeing Windows machines on wireless network

Here's a conundrum!
Brand new iMacs from 10.5.8 - all see Windows XP machines in the shared panel on the finder windows. We need to turn this off as the new macs are on a school network. They need to be on the wireless for internet, but they can't see the office machines for obvious reasons. The sharing is turned off on the Macs and Bonjour is disabled on the windows machines so why can we still see and access the windows computers. Can anyone tell me how to stop our macs seeing the windows machines. The
windows machines still need to be on the network btw as the office needs to have the two windows machines connected to each other. The macs dont need to see any computers so how do i turn it off.

Our solution was to have a separate students' network with its own wireless hubs.
In our school we have a server configured to keep the office and the students' networks separate.
We then have wireless hubs for students and wireless hubs for staff.
In this way the computers are not on the same network, and this should also make it more difficult.
for students to hack into admin computers.
You should be thankful that this iMac made you realized how vulnerable your networked XP computers actually are, and that, at this point, they are still visible to hackers.
Regards

How to access an ext. drive connected to my iMac from a WIndows PC?

I have an iMac running 10.4.3 with an external Firewire hard drive. When I access my iMac through my home network (with a Windows PC if that matters), I haven't figured out how to get to the external hard drive attached to the iMac. I can only access the iMac internal hard drive.
Can someone please help me get to the external hard drive that is attached to my iMac from a networked Windows PC?
Thanks

Try using the free application SharePoints

Logging into an iMac from a Windows Vista Machine

I have set up both File Sharing and Printer Sharing on my iMac. My Windows box sees the iMac, but I can not figure out the format of the user id and password I need to use. I have tried differant versions of my Apple login wothout success. When I fill in my account name, I keep Login unsuccessful. I noticed that upon the return from the unsuccessful login, Windows has added my windows macine name to the front of my apple ID (machinename\applieid).
What format am I suppose to use?

Yes, according to the Services tab, I have Personal Fiel Sharing, windows Sharing and Printer Sharing all checked. When I look Accounts in system pref, My Name is first name space last name. Could the space be the problem?

New iMac from Crashed windows

What I have is a 5th generation IPOD with 5118 songs on it. I had a Dell computer that totally crashed and now I have an iMac.....1st one.
1. Is there a way to get the songs from my ipod to the new itunes in my iMac?
2. I do have some song (CD"S) purchased from iTunes that have not been uploaded to my ipod, can these be retrieved?
Any help will be apppreciated.
Thank You

Try Senuti.
It's a program that transfers music from iPod to iTunes on a Mac.
As is Music Rescue.
Both of these should work with a Windows formatted iPod because Macs can read and write to FAT32 formatted drives.
All your music can be rescued using programs such as these.
I do have some song (CD"S) purchased from iTunes that have not been uploaded to my ipod, can these be retrieved?
No other back up?
Every time you download music from the iTunes store Apple have to pay the artist royalties, so the official stance from Apple is that purchases from the iTunes music store can only be downloaded one time. Then, you must pay again.
This is why you are prompted to back this music up to a cd or dvd.
Some people say that they've been allowed a re-download for various reasons when they've contacted Apple.
You can only ask but please be aware that Apple are not obligated to do this for you.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/lostmusic/#form

Start-up script to access public folder on iMac from iBook

I have a public folder on my iMac (running Leopard) that I can access from my iBook (running Tiger) by routing through with Finder each time I start up my iBook. I would like to have a script automatically run at start up on my iBook to connect to the public folder on my iMac. If the iMac is powered on, the connection is to be made; if the iMac is off, obviously the connection is not made, but the iBook does not hang-up, it continues without the public folder connection.

Well this can be done with some caveats. Here is what I did(on Tiger iBook G3( I didn't try on my Panther ibook G4), but it should work on that too. Forgive me. This G3 is a tester so....) and some explanations about it.
I made a unix executable with pico in Terminal. Ran chmod u+x on it. Called it contoamac.
#!/bin/bash
open afp://192.168.0.6/
The 0.6 is my other machine(your iMac per se) with Leopard. I put the executable in my iBook(your iBook also as reference) in Sys.Pref., Accounts,LoginItems. Only turned on sharing on Leopard machine. But you either have to catch the Leopard machine awake or set it in energy savings to never sleep. Possibly you could have both machines never go to sleep and that would work unless there is a time out on server uptime. Rebooted ibook and it autoed to login password(to do with no pass is another story involving visudo, etc.) on Connect to server menu. I know I have forgotten something to explain.
I'm going to run this reboot and try and get a quick screen shot of boot/connect process next. Right back. Whew!

IMac 2013 and Windows 8.1 Connectivity

Up until I installed Yosemite, I could connect my new Windows 8.1 computer to my iMac external hard drives. ( I have 5 of them hooked up to the iMac) and could access all of my files.) without a problem. Now I can't access not 1 one of them. I can get into the iMac from the Windows computer and see the hard drives, but as soon as I click the hard drives the green line runs across the screen and none of my files appear. I have gone into the settings to make sure I have sharing turned on and everything seems to look ok. I have searched the boards and haven't found an answer or maybe I have over looked one. Is there anyone out there who has some insight to my problem? Thanks in advance. Dave.

Hi,
What error did you exactly get? What does "it won't work" mean?
If you can't setup the account, let me know in which step you have the problem.
If you can setup the account successfully, is the issue that you can't send/receive emails?
I need to know the details above in order to provide further assistance.
We can use Remote Connectivity Analyzer to test if there's any connection issue:
https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/
If you are sure that your account has been configured correctly, we can create a new profile to have a try:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918/en-us
Let me know if I misunderstood anything.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

Ssh to iMac from my PC with graphic applications

How can I ssh to my iMac from my window PC?
I am using SecureCRT + Xming to ssh to my iMac, but I could not open the graphic applications (e.g. xv) through ssh. (I can do it when ssh to a Linux machine though).
Do I have to setup something in my iMac machine?
Is there any window software (other than SecureCRT + Xming) that can help me to do that?
Thanks.

Generally speaking, you tunnel your X11 X-Windows session by starting the ssh session using the -X (capital X) or -Y (capital Y) ssh command line option. This establishes an X11 tunnel, and on the remote system associates your DISPLAY environment variable with the remote end of the ssh tunnel. Typically DISPLAY looks something like localhost:14.0
I do not know how to tell your SecureCRT + Xming setup to export your X11 display server's DISPLAY environment to Mac OS X.
I also assume you have an X11 display server running on your Windows PC.
Note: Terminal, Unix, command line (such as ssh) questions are best asked in the Mac OS X Technologies > Unix Forum
<http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735>

Have a 1st generation Apple TV, which is not showing as a device in iTunes. Had no problems with Apple TV until I changed from a Windows PC to an iMac. I have changed my IP address, sub mask address and router address in the Apple TV, Can anyone help?

I have a 1st generation apple TV, which was working perfectly until I changed from a Windows PC to a Imac. The Apple TV will not show in Itunes. I have changed the IP address, sub mask and Router IP address. Since changing I have switched everything of and on again. Can anyone help?

I have a new router and computer. I have just remembered that just before my old PC died on me, I transferred my iTunes library to a hard drive. I can't remember exactly just how I got my library back, but there are definately things in my library now that were in my library on my old PC! Hope this makes sense. What do you mean by same location? Do you mean in the same place in the house?
Another difference I have just thought of was my old router was connected directly to the computer bu I have not been able to do this with Sky as my PC is not near a phone socket! Will this make a difference?

Is there a way to export an iTunes playlist from a windows XP pc and import on an iMac?

I have a PC running Windows XP that I've had for many years. I just got an iMac and want to make that my main music source for syncing iPods, playing,music in the house, etc. I have a lot of playlists on the old PC that I want to move over to the iMac and I don't have to rebuild them all by hand. Is there a way to export the original playlists from the Windows PC and import them to the iMac since the file systems are different? Thanks.

The problem really is that one person has InDesign and the other has Photoshop.
The workflow is images from photoshop are placed in Photoshop.
Not the layout from InDesign is placed in photoshop.
That's how the software is designed to work.
What people are saying is that Photoshop cannot work this way in dealing with layouts, it's a nightmare and will give you terrible results and cost you time and effort when updating things in Photoshop, it has all the makings of a Final Destination movie, particularly in the area of the later sequels.
But let's not get hung up on those franchises.
If the person needs to edit an Indesign file and can't afford the full cost of InDesign then there are other workarounds:
1. If it's just text
If all they are doing is updating text then you can use File>Export>Rich Text Format from a selection of text, this will make a Word version of the text that they can edit. You can then use File>Import and import the RTF that is edited.
2. You can use InCopy
This is a viable solution for editors that need to see the text in the Layout Format, but it hasn't got all the bells and whistles of InDesign, but it works in tangent with InDesign, it's not as pricey as InDesign and it also allows you to lock out editors from editing certain parts or moving things within the layout. And it can update your InDesign file on the fly.
3. You can use Rorohikos Story Tweaker
http://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/2009/03/25/storytweakertextedits/
There are workarounds that you can find for people that don't have InDesign. It's just that the Photoshop workflow isn't a viable solution in any sense.
For example, I have my layouts proofed in PDF format, where the proofreader adds Comments to the PDF. It works for our workflow as I'm the one editing the only file in existence.
But to go from InDesign to Photoshop is a complete waste of time and effort on everyone's part. There is no need to go that route, there's no reason, there's no point.

I have all of my photos on a seagate external hard drive from a windows based computer. Can I plug external hd into my iMac and download photos with no issues?

Can I just plug in my external harddrive to download the saved pictures from my windows computer to my Imac?

That should work. A box like icon will appear on the desktop. Double click on icon.
If for some reason a message asks you to format, do not format. Pull out the cable on the external hardrive. Ask for more advice here.
Robert

I want to dual boot Windows 8 on my 20-inch, Mid 2007 iMac, from an external USB drive.

I want to dual boot Windows 8 on my 20-inch, Mid 2007 iMac, from an external USB drive. The internal drive is completely dead, it doesn't even show up in Disk Utility. I'm running 10.8.2 from the external drive. When I start Boot Camp Assistant, at the Introduction page, when I press the continue button nothing happens. Do I have to have internal drive to run Boot Camp Assistant? Can anyone provide me with the steps to dual boot, with his setup? Thanks in advance!

Hi maczimillon,
Only follow these steps, it works for my:
Open "System Information" and note your "Boot ROM Version" (some like MBP51.007E.B06)
Navigate to "Utilities" in Finder and open the package contents of -BootCampAssistant.app- with right click. Duplicate the "Info.plist" file to the Desktop e.g. and open that with Text Editor.
You must locate the keys "DARequiredROMVersions"and "USBBootSupportedModels"
Add new strings with the information of your machine under booth keys (step 1), always respect the format, such as: <string>MBP51.007E.B06</string> for the frist key and <string>MBP51</string> for the second key.
Save changes and replace the original plist file (it may ask you to enter admin pass)
If you proceeded correctly you will see the checkbox "Create a Windows 7 USB install disk" enabled in Boot Camp Assistant.
Then you can follow the usual Boot Camp installation using your WIN8 DVD iso image . The assistant program will proceed resizing your disk partition and installing necessary drivers for your iMac.
I strongly recomends you to use thirld party's bootloaders like rEFInd (rEFIt) because of the Apple SMC versions of some old machines should not be able to boot properly from external devices like USB drives.

Cannot access shared external drive on iMac from Windows 7

Used to be able to access this drive with no problem from any of my PC's. Sent iMac in for repair and system drive was wiped so I'm starting from clean install of Leopard. Did all the updates first including 10.6.4 which wasn't on before the system drive died.
Firewall is off
SMB is on
Everyone as well as main user has read write access to external drive
iMac is in the same workgroup as machine, although it wasn't before and it worked fine.
PC can ping the IP of the iMac and get a response, can see the iMac in list of networked computers
but cannot access anything on it.
Windows 7 network diagnostics says "file and print sharing resource (JMGIMAC) is online but isn't responding to connection attempts" "The remote computer isn't responding to connections on port 445
I've tried everything, any ideas
Josh

I am familiar with the instructions for sharing files and have followed them (several times I might add).
My problem is that the information that I place in the WINS tab ( in the Network Preference Pane) disappears when the iMac is re-started. This information (especially the Workgroup name) must appear when the computer re-boots. It doesn't and I have to re-enter the information in the iMac before I can access its files from a Windows PC.
I have searched the internet for days trying to find an answer to this question. Although the problem seems to be fairly common, no solutions have been found.

VNC to iMac from iBook & windows

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for