Screen sharing on Mac OS X Server using VNC

Chicken of the VNC is a free open-source Mac application that allows you to view a remote desktop on another networked machine.

Here's how I set it up on my Mac running 10.6, and our Mac Server (10.6 too).

• Run Server Admin on your local machine
• Open up the server you want to connect to
• Select Firewall.
• Go to Settings / Services tab
• If 'Allow traffic only to these ports' is selected we need to add the ports that VNC will use.
• Click the little + button at the bottom-left of the list of services
• Add a new service called VNC 1, using port 5800, TCP + UDP
• Add a second service, VNC 2, using port 5900, TCP + UDP
• Stop and restart the firewall

• Download Chicken of the VNC and install it.
• Run the app
• Go to Connection / New Connection
• Enter the IP address or name of your server
• Leave 'display' as 0 (if you choose 1 you'd have needed to open ports 5801/5901 above for example)
• Leave 'profile' as 'default profile'
• Check the 'save server' box.
• Hit connect.

If all goes well you should have a window pop up displaying the screen of the server.