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Old 02-03-2007, 11:15 PM
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I'm trying to use a Mac Mini as a headless server. It works fine, except for VNC. If I have a monitor plugged in VNC works fine. If I don't, then once I log into the mini the viewed screen becomes very distorted. I suspect this issue is the resolution of the log in session being undefined in some way. Does anyone have any experience in getting VNC to work on MacOS X without a monitor plugged in? The client itself doesn't appear to matter, all the VNC clients I've tried experience the same problem.
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Old 02-03-2007, 11:23 PM
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chicken of the VNC, works fine but i never tried without a screen
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Old 02-03-2007, 11:37 PM
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What client are you trying to use?

I have had Chicken or even RealVNC on Windows connect to a Sawtooth running Tiger and OSXvnc run fine headlessly.

I do know that the inbuilt VNC client in OS X sucks, but it can be done...
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Old 03-03-2007, 01:06 AM
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Try using the supplied DVI->VGA adapter plugged into the mini.
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Old 03-03-2007, 05:36 AM
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This is something I'd like to see fixed, as well ... when I had the G4 Mini, I couldn't run it headless via VNC (even with the dongle hooked up). Recently, I tried to set up a G4/500 to run headless, and even using two different cards and a variety of adaptor dongles, I couldn't get it to respond via any VNC viewer app, either on MacOS or on Windows.
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Old 03-03-2007, 06:27 AM
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It will work with Apple Remote Desktop. That's what I'm using to access my G4 Mac mini running OS X Server.
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Old 03-03-2007, 08:24 AM
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I'm pretty sure Edge has the right answer. I don't think I can VNC to my Mini without an adapter plugged in.
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Old 03-03-2007, 09:18 AM
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My server is a Mac Mini. I've always VNC'd or ARD'd into it since I bought it. It only ever had a monitor hooked up to it on the day I got it. So I could configure it to work remotely.

Not sure what's going on with yours. I've never seen that issue.

Though, when I had a monitor connected to the machine. VNC or ARD makes the resolution the same as the monitor. When there is no monitor it defaults to 800X600.

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Old 03-03-2007, 10:00 AM
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My server is a Mac Mini. I've always VNC'd or ARD'd into it since I bought it. It only ever had a monitor hooked up to it on the day I got it. So I could configure it to work remotely.

Not sure what's going on with yours. I've never seen that issue.

Though, when I had a monitor connected to the machine. VNC or ARD makes the resolution the same as the monitor. When there is no monitor it defaults to 800X600.

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I don't use my mini as a headless mac, its plugged into my TV, but I do use my G4 400mhz server, and it works fine. It's even minus a video card, due to some issue with the fan, so I only put it in and plug in my ext. monitor when I'm installing a new OS or if a hard drive dies etc etc
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Old 03-03-2007, 10:10 AM
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i had that problem, i got around it by plugging my monitor in on boot, then unplugging it when it had loaded. After a few system software update it went away though. I might point ot here that i'm using 10.4 server now too.
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