Enable Screen Sharing (Remote Control) on a Mac

(imported topic written by NoahSalzman)

Thought I would throw this into the memory hole: How to Enable Screen Sharing (Remote Control) on a Mac

Mac OS X 10.7:

Change to unload to turn it off. Can be run unmodified if run using the “shell” Action Script variant.

launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.screensharing.plist

Mac OS X 10.6.2:

/bin/sh -c 
"/bin/echo -n enabled > /Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenSharing.launchd"

Mac OS X 10.6.3:

/bin/sh -c 
"/bin/echo -n enabled > /private/etc/ScreenSharing.launchd"

I’ve verified 10.7 works… not sure about the 10.6 variants.

Chicken of the VNC

is a Mac remote control utility that can connect to the Mac once Screen Sharing is turned on. I presume if you are on Windows you can just use vanilla VNC to control the target Mac.