Another VNC viewer alternative

Oct 11, '07 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: jocamero

I thought I'd share what I feel to be the best VNC viewer for the Mac. It's not mentioned in many reviews, but I've been happily using the Windows version for many years. The viewer is VNCViewer from RealVNC, from the Enterprise Edition of their product. The server that runs on the Mac does require a paid license key, however the viewer is free!

The viewer has lots of goodies, such as file transfers (via copy/paste), desktop scaling, and of course, encryption when paired with the RealVNC Enterprise Server. It also has a 'listener' mode, so you can accept incoming viewing requests from the machines you support to traverse firewalls, etc.

[robg adds: To get the viewer, you'll need to download the ">Enterprise Edition demo, then run the installer. Inside the installer, you can do a custom install that installs only the viewer. This worked reasonably well for me on machines running Vine Server, though some features didn't work. I also had occasional issues getting mouse clicks to be recognized -- I suspect that I'd get better results with the RealVNC server, but haven't had a chance to test it yet.]

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