Chicken of the VNC

Interesting. I've never heard of Jolly Fast VNC until you mentioned it. Have you tried copy the configurations from those clients to Chicken of the VNC like I suggested? ...

Compare the settings of the VNC viewer on your PC with that of Chicken of the VNC and see if there's a difference. Make sure you set everything similar to what you have in the VNC viewer on the PC and see if that works. ...

and clicked connect but I do not get the follow up window. ...

telnet into the server. I think it connects to the server. ...

Try and disable the BonJour option in Chicken of the VNC and see if it still maintains the connection. ...

then it will connect to the server.. but it seems to be sporadic.. ...

In the Vine Server application, there's a section where you can enable it to launch on system startup. Once you enable that, Vine Server will have its VNC daemon start on bootup so that it's always running even when a user is not logged into the desktop. ...

the only issue I'm having with Vine Server and Chicken of the VNC is that I lose the connection on User Account Logout. ...

I use Chicken of the VNC as a client on the Mac and Vine Server as a VNC server for my Mac. So far, both have been very stable for me. However, remember that VNC is insecure unless you tunnel it through SSH. ...

The type of software you need is called "VNC". In essence you need a VNC server on your mum's Mac, and a VNC viewer on your Mac. ...