MacOS – Alternative for RealVNC

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I'm searching for a free alternative of RealVNC for Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11).

I have one "special need" for the program. I need to be able to change the port of the Mac I am currently using.

I couldn't find anything yet, at least nothing that works with El Capitan…
Any recommendations?

Best Answer

Chicken

If you are looking for a VNC client, the open source Chicken client supports connecting to specific ports.

Tiger VNC

You can install Tiger VNC via the brew project with:

brew install tiger-vnc

macOS Built-in Screen Sharing

Alternatively, you can use macOS's built in Screen Sharing application to connect to specific ports via a well formed URL, such as vnc://192.168.1.34:5901.

VNC Servers

For VNC servers, other than the built-in macOS VNC server, take a look at OSXvnc.

Tunneling

You could take a different approach and tunnel the existing VNC service through ssh or another tool. This would expose the VNC service through any port you desire without needing a special VNC server.

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