Recently, I read a hint about how to use Automator to execute a shell script to open a screen sharing session to another machine. It turns out that there is a much simpler (and faster) way to accomplish this.
[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. This is an addition to this hint which talks about finding the .vncloc files in ~/Library/Application Support/Screen Sharing. Today's hint creates an alias to the corresponding file there.
This previous hint shows how to make a .inetloc file for vnc in Safari which accomplishes the same thing. There are a lot of different ways to make shortcuts fot screen sharing, and this is another addition to that list.]
- Open a screen sharing session to the desired host.
- Notice the small icon in the middle of the title bar of the screen sharing session.
- Click on the icon and drag a copy to your desktop.
- Close the screen sharing session.
- Click on the icon you dragged to the desktop. It should open a connection to the desired host.
- You can rename the icon or add graphics to the icon as desired.
[crarko adds: I tested this, and it works as described. This is an addition to this hint which talks about finding the .vncloc files in ~/Library/Application Support/Screen Sharing. Today's hint creates an alias to the corresponding file there.
This previous hint shows how to make a .inetloc file for vnc in Safari which accomplishes the same thing. There are a lot of different ways to make shortcuts fot screen sharing, and this is another addition to that list.]
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