MacOS – Screen Sharing in El Capitan – Gone

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When I upgraded from Yosemite to El Capitan, I got a warning about Apple’s Screen Sharing.app being not supported.

Sure enough, an alias to the app was moved to a folder named "Incompatible Software". When I run the app, it never connects to the server.

Is there some replacement for this functionality (VNC screen sharing) bundled into El Capitan? Or did Apple really just drop this important feature?

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It's under /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Screen\ Sharing.app here. You should still be able to call it directly (e.g. via Spotlight) or just use Cmd-K in Finder to initiate a VNC session (use vnc:NAME-OF-REMOTE-SYSTEM as address).

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ssh into the remote Mac and kill the screensharingd daemon.

$ ps ax | grep screen
1234   ??  Ss     0:00.02 /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/screensharingd.bundle/Contents/MacOS/screensharingd
$ sudo kill 1234

It works for me. I have Mac OS X Lion on both local and remote computers.

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Reconnect the monitor. On the Mac Pro, set the resolution to a lower setting (as a test to the lowest possible one). Then try again with the monitor disconnected.

If it works, you can then increase the resolution.

I've had similar problems happen several times over the years. Sometimes connecting a display adapter to the video card (even though it is not connected to anything) will fool the video hardware into working properly.

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