I did find a menu item labelled 'connect to server', but that just gives me connection failures, perhaps because it's defaulting a URI type of afp:// which probably has nothing to do with vnc - or perhaps because the tool is unrelated to vnc.] Still trying to figure out how to invoke the client built into OSX - it's not at the path I found on the net, /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications Looks like I need to know the right invocation to feed to Finder, which doesn't have anything like a button labelled 'screen sharing'. So still looking for alternatives, but making progress. No flakiness so far, but the Mac client for tigervnc seems unwilling to let me connect to multiple servers at the same time, and Mac's GUI interface seems unwilling to let me launch multiple copies of the client program. I now have tigervnc running on one server and on the Mac client.

[Update, after first answer received: is a great source for finding software of this type. I don't have Apple's release code names memorized. When referring to OS X releases, please use release numbers in your answers, not just names of cats - or else link to a page that translates the cat names to release numbers.

a client from realvnc that runs in the chrome browser (ugh!).

'screen sharing app' from apple, possibly pre-installed on the mac,.

IIRC, I was using 'Tightvnc' or 'Realvnc' on my servers at that time, which had worked fine with the first random windows-based VNC client I tried. I also used another non-apple client from that Mac, which was flaky in different ways. I once used 'chicken of the vnc', which was flaky on whatever OS X release I had 2 years ago. My memory is that Apple had a built in client with a non-obvious name, perhaps 'screen', which they 'fixed' a few releases ago to only work if the VNC server was itself from Apple, running on a Mac. I really don't want to have to access them from a virtual windows machine running on the MAC :-(Ī web search for 'mac vnc client' produces zero useful hits. I have a number of FreeBSD servers, and I'd like to put VNC server software on them, then access them from a Mac running OS X 10.9.5.

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