[Macpartners] [Mac-managers] 10.6.8 & Remote Desktop

Andrew Munchbach amunch at MIT.EDU
Wed Jul 20 13:31:54 EDT 2011


Just as an FYIŠ Apple officially released Apple Remote Desktop 3.5 today.
Hopefully, this solves some of the issues mentioned below.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1424

Andrew

On 7/6/11 11:08 AM, "Aran M Parillo" <aran at MIT.EDU> wrote:

>I've not seen that specific behavior but have a few machines that only let
>me remote desktop/screen share if I use an ALL CAPS version of the user
>name during authentication.  Lower case user name returns "authentication
>failed" upper case user name (and same password) let's me through.
>
>I can't recall what is specific about these machines that brought on the
>behavior... Guessing though either a TC restore or an major os update.
>
>My 2 cents of ARD wonkery.
>
>Aran
>
>On 7/6/11 8:26 AM, "Helen Rose" <hrose at MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>>Since applying the 10.6.8 (combo) updater, a number of our machines have
>>lost their ability to be viewed via Remote Desktop. They appear as
>>"Screen Sharing Available" (so they are controllable), but the only fix
>>is to remote all signs of ARD (including Preferences) and reinstall.
>>
>>Has anyone else seen this behavior?
>>
>>--Helen
>>
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