Feb 09, '09 07:30:03AM • Contributed by: tatilsever
After following this write-up by robg (on how to restore the bonus screen sharing buttons) and enabling the Screen Sharing Bonjour Browser, I have started using Leopard's built-in Screen Sharing.app as a VNC client to connect to a Linux box at work.
However, the built-in VNC server I use on Linux does not support encryption, so Screen Sharing displays a warning message about it without an option to disable it. I guess it would be OK if I just had to click 'Continue' every time I had to initiate a connection, but the warning message keeps popping up after half of my mouse clicks during the connection, making it very impractical to use.
In the end, this did not turn out to be an insurmountable obstacle. Thanks to the method outlined in robg's article on how to find hidden preferences, I found one that turns off the warning message. In Terminal, enter this command:
defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing dontWarnOnVNCEncryption -bool TRUE
As expected, replacing TRUE in the above command with FALSE brings back the annoying warning messages.
