Mac OS screen sharing is compatible with VNC, so the viewer can use any VNC client with a view-only mode (e.g. Chicken of the VNC (I think) or TightVNC from MacPorts). (Screen Sharing’s superior proprietary compression will be lost, though.)
Sadly, that is no longer true of the version of OS X released after that was written. Specifically, neither Lion’s built-in “screen sharing” server nor Vine Server on Lion works with any of the Windows VNC clients we tried.
When someone used Windows remotely to monitor my OS X Lion desktop in 2012, it was through “captures” (still images) of my screen saved to a shared folder of Dropbox. Specifically, I wrote some code to fork and exec ”/usr/sbin/screencapture -C” every 3 minutes.
Mac OS screen sharing is compatible with VNC, so the viewer can use any VNC client with a view-only mode (e.g. Chicken of the VNC (I think) or TightVNC from MacPorts). (Screen Sharing’s superior proprietary compression will be lost, though.)
FWIW, we couldn’t get OS X screen sharing to work with RealVNC on Windows, but installing Vine Server on OS X fixed all our problems.
Sadly, that is no longer true of the version of OS X released after that was written. Specifically, neither Lion’s built-in “screen sharing” server nor Vine Server on Lion works with any of the Windows VNC clients we tried.
When someone used Windows remotely to monitor my OS X Lion desktop in 2012, it was through “captures” (still images) of my screen saved to a shared folder of Dropbox. Specifically, I wrote some code to fork and exec ”/usr/sbin/screencapture -C” every 3 minutes.