The number after the colon is the port through which the communication takes place. The ‘vnc’ at the start sets the protocol you’ll use to connect to your remote Pi, which is identified here by its Bonjour (mDNS) name: its hostname (typically set using raspi-config followed by. Over the years, it has gained support for a variety of remote access technologies, including VNC.ĪRD doesn’t live in the Applications folder - it’s actually buried deep in the System folder - but it can be launched via finder: just hit Command-K to invoke the standard Mac ‘Connect to Server’ dialog. There is and it comes free with your Mac, though you might never have seen it before.Īpple has long provided Apple Remote Desktop (ARD), a tool for remotely accessing Mac desktops. I’m not a fan of cross-platform tools - you tend to lose the benefits of your preferred OS - so I wondered if there was a native Mac OS X VNC client. TightVNC doesn’t supply a client for Mac OS X, though it does offer a client for Windows and a cross-platform client that runs under Java. The server is now running and, if you set it up using SSH, you can log out of the Pi if you wish. This is optional I just entered ‘n’ for no. You’ll also be asked if you’d like to enter a password for view-only access. You will be asked to set up an remote access control password and to enter it a second time, as verification. When the software has downloaded and installed, it’s ready to run: The Raspberry Pi Foundation recommends a specific VNC server, tightvncserver, written by TightVNC Software. The client relays your mouse and keyboard input back to the remote computer. You need a suitable server running on the machine that will be sharing its desktop, and a client app to present that desktop on the computer you’re accessing the remote machine from. VNC is a standard, widely supported way of securely presenting a GUI remotely over a network connection. It turns out that you can, using VNC (Virtual Network Computing). My Pi Zero’s desktop within my Mac desktop

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