The first item required for a Tiger system to view the screen of another Mac is a VNC-compatible client. There are several options users can install in Tiger to enable screen sharing. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger can achieve screen sharing, but it is not installed by default, and as such users will not see options to set up screen sharing in Tiger's Sharing system preferences.
It may seem that if a computer has Mac OS X 10.5 installed that it should be able to view the screen of another computer, but as with File Sharing and other network services, the screen sharing requires a client as well as a server to send the information. I can log in as an account through thnetwork on my emac, but there is no option available for screen sharing.' When the ibook shows up in finder, it tries to auto connect, but then disappears. I want to use screen sharing to access the ibook. 'I have 10.5.5 on my eMac, and i have 10.4 on my ibook. This is a convenient feature that was introduced in Mac OS X 10.5, but users who still have 10.4 installed on one of their computers have experience issues when trying to connect.Īpple Discussions poster writes: ima_ipod: Many users with two computers take advantage of the screen sharing features in Mac OS X to manage both computers.
