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From: Jolly Roger on 24 Apr 2010 12:35
In article <bob-0964DB.07144624042010(a)5ad64b5e.bb.sky.com>,
Robert Peirce <bob(a)peirce-family.com> wrote:

> In article <jollyroger-25E543.17263923042010(a)news.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > In article <bob-0E079B.18044823042010(a)5ad64b5e.bb.sky.com>,
> > Robert Peirce <bob(a)peirce-family.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In article <jollyroger-3C2137.15045423042010(a)news.individual.net>,
> > > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote:
> > >
> > Why bother, when so many other apps that do work are available?
> >
> > Try reading the article I mention above. ; )
>
> Oh, I see where you are going. Thanks, but that isn't the issue.
>
> I have LogMeIn, which won't turn the computer on or wake it if it is
> asleep but will do everything else, including restart it. However, I
> thought it might have done something to cause a login problem. It turns
> out LogMeIn most likely was not the culprit.
>
> In the meantime, you had suggested getting a VNC client. I checked
> around and RemoteTap, which runs on the iPod, was getting rave reviews.
> The only problem was a small number of people said they could not get it
> to log them in. I figured they probably just had it set up wrong.
>
> It turns out I had forgotten something because it had been so many years
> since I got my first Mac. Out of the box, as I recall, you don't get a
> login screen. You have to set it up to do that. Apparently a
> relatively small number of the people who use RemoteTap have their Macs
> set up that way and those people, of whom I am one, cannot use RemoteTap
> to log on.
>
> I thought the solution might be relatively simple. Have RemoteTap run
> its server as long as the computer is running or have it watch port
> 5902. However, since it only cost $5, I was not terribly interested in
> spending more money to try additional solutions, especially when LogMeIn
> works fine.

You seem to be really confused. Mac OS X comes with a VNC server built
in. There's no need to run any server. All you need to do is go to
System Preferences > Sharing and enable Screen Sharing. Then you can use
any VNC client, free or not, to connect to your Mac from anywhere else.
And you can do that regardless of whether your Mac is set to
automatically log you in or not.

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