Re: Is there any Cocoa API (or other way) to determine if an application is running in a VNC or ARD session?
Re: Is there any Cocoa API (or other way) to determine if an application is running in a VNC or ARD session?
- Subject: Re: Is there any Cocoa API (or other way) to determine if an application is running in a VNC or ARD session?
- From: Jonathan Hendry <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:03:17 -0500
You might try checking for any telltale running processes, or checking the output of lsof -i for any open sockets that are indicative of a VNC or ARD connection. That might have to run sudo'd as root.
http://www.akadia.com/services/lsof_quickstart.txt
On Feb 26, 2010, at 18:53 PM, Joe Jones wrote:
> That's what I thought.
>
> Why? So we can limit certain functionality over a remote connection. We do this for Terminal Services connections on Windows and I was asked about doing it for Mac.
>
> Thanx,
> joe
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Matthew Lindfield Seager [email@hidden]
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 1:41 PM
> To: Joe Jones
> Cc: email@hidden
> Subject: Re: Is there any Cocoa API (or other way) to determine if an application is running in a VNC or ARD session?
>
> On Saturday, February 27, 2010, Joe Jones <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Thanx,
>> Joe
>
> Why? What are you trying to achieve?
>
> I doubt it though! AFAIK you can only have a remote console (i.e.
> screen sharing) so the app isn't running in the VNC session, it's
> running normally on the host computer.
>
> Your question only makes sense in the context of "Terminal Services"
> style connections which aren't available on Snow Leopard [Server]
> without third party software.
>
> Even if you could know if a user is currently connected via VNC/RDP
> and even if you could tell whether the remote or local session (or
> both at the same time) are currently controlling the computer that
> still wouldn't take into consideration other sharing solutions (e.g.
> LogMeIn).
>
> Matt
>
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