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![]() All suggestions proved unsuccessful for me, however, I was able to do the following: Even after upgrading to the latest version of 10.7.1, nothing. I too was having problems with the Screen Sharing feature after upgrading to Lion. If you want to have double login for multi-user reasons, simply don't setup/save your password, or save the password for the account you do want to login with. ![]() By configuring the Screen Sharing and Mocha apps to use OS X authentication, we bypass this annoyance. For most people, it's annoying to login twice. If you run a multiuser machine, this is a great feature. I don't believe that downgrading to ARD 3.4 is necessary, but instructions are here from Reubania (towards the bottom). Once rebooted, they should work correctly. You can find info here:, We did this manually by turning them on and then off. Viola, you can now VNC without logging in twice.Configure Mocha but enter not just the VNC password, but also the Mac OS X user and password.Download Mocha VNC Lite from the Apple store for free.You could download Screens from the Apple store or. Let's access the Lion computer from an iPhone or iPad: You will now have to re-login with your OS X user password (unless you get a Windows client that supports direct login, but I don't know of one at the moment).Let's access the Lion computer from a Windows PC: You can also connect by going to the Finder and hitting Apple-K or going to the Finder menubar Go > Connect to Server and finding the correct server. You can also connect to Windows computers running VNC with it. Viola, now you can use this to connect to your Lion computer, without having to login twice. Type in the Bonjour name or IP address of your computer.Now open the alias (or click the Dock icon).Make an alias of it (click and drag while holding Apple and Option) in the Applications folder. There is an application called Screen Sharing.From the other Mac, open /System/Library/Core Services/.Let's access the Lion computer from another Mac: If it still doesn't work, then you should try downgrading to ARD 3.4, but I don't think this is necessary. If you don't know what that last sentence means, leave Remote Management and remote Apple Events off. If you administer a bunch of computers with ARD, then turn Remote Managment on. If you want Windows computers to access it, go to Screen Sharing > Computer Settings, click the VNC checkbox, and enter a VNC password.If you just want to access your computer through VNC or screen sharing, just turn on Screen Sharing. We have just "kickstarted" those services. Now turn ON Screen Sharing, Remote Login, Remote Management, and Remote Apple Events.Turn OFF Screen Sharing, Remote Login, Remote Management, and Remote Apple Events (just turn everything off).You can skip all the other threads and just read this. How to fix VNC, Apple Remote Desktop (ARD), and screen sharing in OS X 10.7 Lion.
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