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Another way to create a screen sharing shortcut
Authored by: xrayspx on Feb 13, '11 01:23:17PM

One thing I've found is that if you use this method to create a .vncloc, it won't let you connect to localhost. So for instance if you us SSH TCP Forwarding to connect to a remote host through a firewall, the destination may be: vnc://127.0.0.1:5985. This works fine when launching Screen Sharing and entering 127.0.0.1:5985 into the connection dialog, but not as a saved .vncloc. Screen Sharing complains about not being able to VNC to Localhost.

If you use the Safari method to create a .inetloc file, you can use that .inetloc to launch the screen sharing session, no problems.

I mention this for anyone else who is scripting the process of setting up the ssh tunnel and then launching Screen Sharing from the command line.



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