Is it possible to connect to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, built into a vnc server, with a low color depth from Windows?

Question

If I try to connect to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, which is built into the vnc server with a low color depth from Windows, client bombs after connecting. It only works when I set it to the highest color depth. I tried with at least 3 windows of VNC clients. Any ideas? Got some settings I can set in Mac OS X?

It takes about 20 seconds to redraw the screen with my current connection and setting the bit depth.

Answer 1

Not with a built-in VNC server. Vine Server allows you to change the bit depth to which clients connect, though.

Answer 2

In my experience, you cannot lower the color depth with the default vnc server. I will not argue, because perhaps this behavior could be changed using the console command.

I would recommend installing another VNC server on a Mac, for example http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxvnc/

Answer 3

The built-in vnc seems to have a very small configuration that I see.

Alternatively, you can try using osxvnc , which, in my opinion, allows different bit depths

Answer 4

You can switch on the client side to high color (16 bit), but not low color (8 bit). You can also enable JPEG compression. With both of these options in sessions, the speed for me is from completely unusable (~ 45 seconds for the initial drawing of the screen and ~ 5 seconds lagging when you click on the menu) to completely usable (<5s for the initial drawing of the screen and <1s lag when pressing the menu) .

Please note that this is the time to connect from a remote computer to my home iMac on a cable modem. In addition, it works with two screens that are sent, although I use only the main VNC channel. I have yet to figure out a way to disable the secondary screen in VNC and its problem in order to disable it.

Answer 5

I use both. I believe that the built-in VNC server in OS X provides maximum keystroke compatibility. I use it when I am on the local network. When using a VPN (much slower), I install the Vine Server (“System Server”) on the non-standard port # (say 5905) with a much lower color resolution, so the screen doesn’t take 30 seconds to redraw I press something.

Then I just ask my client to connect through the appropriate port: 5900 calls the built-in VNC server (for high-performance use on the local network), and 5905 calls the Vine Server (for the speed of updating the screen via VPN). The best of both worlds.

Answer 6

I gave up and started using the free version of LogMeIn.