Is it possible to connect to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's built in vnc server at a low color depth from Windows?

Question

If I attempt to connect to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's built in vnc server at a low color depth from Windows, the client bombs after connecting. It only works when I set it to the highest color depth. I've tried with at least 3 windows VNC clients. Any ideas? There some setting I can set in Mac OS X?

It takes about 20 seconds to repaint the screen with my current connection and high bit depth setting.

Answer 1

In my experience you can't lower the color depth with the default vnc server. I won't assert it, because maybe that behaviour could be changed using a console command.

I'd recommend installing another VNC server in mac, like http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxvnc/

Answer 2

The built-in vnc seems to have very little configurability that I can see.

As an alternative, you can try using osxvnc which I believe allows different bit depths

Answer 3

Not with the builtin VNC server. Vine Server allows you to change the bit depth that clients connect at though.