[geeks] Leopard Screen Sharing problems

[Michael Parson]

I have two machines, a G4 Digital Audio and a MacBook, both running
10.5.2. For a long while now, I've had Screen Sharing working between
the two, but for some reason, I can no longer view the screen on my G4
from my Macbook using the Apple Screen Share application. The other way
around works fine. I can connect via VNC using JollysFast VNC. Chicken
of the VNC connects and immediately disconnects with "Connection
Terminated - The server closed the connection".

This is with both boxes on the same network, plugged into the same
switch, even. There are no firewalls enabled on either host or on the
internal part of my network.

I have tried with BTTM enabled and disabled, both signed into my .mac
account and not.

I can connect to the host via the Finder browser which will let me
view/edit/copy files back and forth, but when I click on the 'Share
Screen' button, I get:

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"Connect failed to "g4hostname".

Please make sure that Screen Sharing (in the Sharing section of System
Preferences) is enabled on the computer you're attempting to connect
to. Also make sure your network connection is working properly.

It is enabled and my network otherwise works fine. I don't have any
other VNC server software (like Vine, etc) running on the G4.

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Running the screen sharing application by itself and putting in the IP
of the other system results in it just saying, "Contacting <hostname>"
(I guess it figures that much out from DNS?) and never connects.

Anyone have any ideas?

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org