Screen sharing between Raspberry PI and Mac OSx [closed]

Question

I want to use the Screen Sharing OSx built-in App to manipulate the actual X session open in my Raspberry PI.

Just to be clear I want to see in my VNC session the same image the Raspberry is sending through the HDMI. So I can move the mouse in my computer and the cursor is also moving in the Raspberry screen.

I have tried several combinations of vnc-servers and configs but neither have worked.

Answer 1

As I have spent several hours solving this I so answer my self in case someone needs the instructions as I would wanted to find them.

First, the most popular vnc-server (tightvncserver) is not fullfilling my specification that the X-session has to be the same in my VNC client App and in the Raspberry screen.

The vnc-server that does the work is x11vnc

Install x11vnc

sudo apt-get install x11vnc 

Looks like it requires you to set up a password:

x11vnc -storepasswd 

Test installation and connection

You can already start the vnc-server:

x11vnc -forever -usepw -display :0 -ultrafilexfer 

Check the service is active and listening

$ sudo netstat -nlp | grep vnc tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:5900            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      2575/x11vnc   

And connect from your Mac just opening Screen Sharing and introducing the Raspberry's ip:

Make x11vnc to start on boot

Config:

# ~/.config/autostart/x11vnc.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application Name=X11VNC Comment= Exec=x11vnc -forever -usepw -display :0 -ultrafilexfer StartupNotify=false Terminal=false Hidden=false 

Be sure there is not problems to access to this file:

sudo chmod a+r ~/.config/autostart/x11vnc.desktop 

Make the Raspberry to be visible in the sharing network of the Mac

sudo apt-get install netatalk sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon sudo update-rc.d avahi-daemon defaults 

Config:

# /etc/avahi/services/afpd.service <?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*--> <!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd"> <service-group>    <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>    <service>       <type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type>       <port>548</port>    </service> </service-group> 

Config 2:

# /etc/avahi/services/rfb.service <?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?> <!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd"> <service-group>   <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>   <service>     <type>_rfb._tcp</type>     <port>5900</port>   </service> </service-group> 

Restart service:

sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon restart 

Finding the Raspberry from your Mac

Using Finder into the section Shared > All... should be your Raspberry. From there you can click in the button Share Screen...