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I've set up Screen sharing on my Ubuntu 18.04, and VPN'd into my network remotely from my Mac. However when entering the correct vnc://... from Screen Sharing on my Mac, I get a message saying that the software on the remote machine is incompatible with this version of Screen Sharing on Mojave. However I've read online that this works. I've had tons of issues with TightVNC, just couldn't get it to work, kept on getting grey screens no matter what I tried

Ramonster
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In the end I just had to disable encryption.

sudo gsettings set org.gnome.Vino require-encryption false

As a bonus note, you can check the value of require-encryption via the command:

gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.Vino | grep encrypt

To know more, this site is helpful: https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-remote-desktop-18-04-bionic-beaver-linux

Stefan Lasiewski
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Ramonster
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  • Unfortunately, disabling encryption didn't work for me using Ubuntu 18.04 and macOS Mojave. I still get the error The software on the remote computer appears to be incompatible with this version of Screen Sharing. – Stefan Lasiewski Mar 28 '20 at 19:45
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Quoting from somewhere.

  1. First make sure Desktop Sharing is set up properly.
  2. Download dconf-tools by typing in Terminal sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
  3. Run dconf-editor
  4. Expand org
  5. Expand gnome
  6. Expand desktop
  7. Select remote-access
  8. Uncheck require-encryption (don't click on Set to Default as it rechecks it)
  9. Exit dconf-editor
Ishant Dave
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  • Hello and welcome to AskUbuntu. "Quoting from somewhere" from somewhere is not what I would call a trusted source. Have you tried these step? Do they work? Why are the needed to fix that problem? – Simon Sudler Dec 02 '19 at 06:37
  • Highly underrated answer. Been searching for this for a long time! Fwiw, dconf-tools isn't available anymore, but this answer has a workaround. https://askubuntu.com/a/1296114/602762. Then run dconf-editor instead. – brandonscript Jan 15 '22 at 05:53