Comments on: Set up Screen Sharing (VNC) via command line on Mac OS X remotely using SSH

By: mikeo

mikeo — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:13:49 +0000

Hey Brewer – good write-up. My mac’s graphics card appears to be dead, and I searched around looking for exactly this. How cool that it turned out to be your article. talk at ya on FB soon – Orstead

By: Don Tirrell

Don Tirrell — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:57:12 +0000

For some reason my kickstart (ARD) & associated files got hosed – so the Apple method was useless. This method works fine except no “>” required
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sudo bash -c ‘echo enabled /Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenSharing.launchd’
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allowed me to use Chicken of the VNC and correct the ARD issues

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Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:50:47 +0000

[...] you need it, and then turn it off when you’re done. Also, the write-ups of Tim Boland and Chris Brewer were very helpful in figuring this [...]

By: David Jones

David Jones — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:53:05 +0000

Activate Remote Desktop Sharing, enable access privileges for all users, restart ARD Agent:

$ sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -restart -agent -privs -all

Read: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2370

By: Tim Hunter

Tim Hunter — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:27:48 +0000

Thanks so much for this. Worked a treat. I didn’t want to reboot my Mac, though, so a bit more searching on the net (and a bit of extrapolation) produced this command:

sudo /bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.ScreenSharing.plist

…which started up the VNC server without rebooting. I’m in via TightVNC from my windows box at work. Pain in the rear fighting with the screen saver to log in though. Eventually got it.

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the blogging » It’s tough to use a computer with no display — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:08:01 +0000

[...] the meantime, I jumped through some hoops to enable Screen Sharing via the command line. Chris Brewer’s instructions were the most thorough, but after following them I had to try a couple of different [...]

By: Chris Brewer

Chris Brewer — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:21:56 +0000

@Mark: Good catch. Thanks for sharing. I’ve modified the original article to reflect your comment.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:49:08 +0000

This worked for me.

The only thing that’s wrong is the use of the sudo echo enabled > “” command – sudo will run the echo as root but bash won’t have permission to rewrite the file. Change to tee like the above examples.