enabling OS X screen sharing remotely in Terminal

Thursday, October 8. 2009

enabling OS X screen sharing remotely in Terminal

short and simple for 10.5 (Leopard)

sudo sh -c "/bin/echo -n enabled > /Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenSharing.launchd"

slightly different for 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

sudo sh -c "/bin/echo -n enabled > /private/etc/ScreenSharing.launchd"

rm the file to disable it. launchd polls regularyly, so after you "enable" the service, it'll be loaded by the time you check for the open port with netstat -an

Posted by Khanh in Apple/Mac, Softwarez at 19:40 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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