![]() ![]() I ended up uninstalling Teamviewer on both workstations, enabled sharing on the Mac and using TightVNC ( ). I came to the conclusion that Teamviewer uses something in the backend that prevents older unlicensed version from working. I say might, as I did my research on why Teamviewer was not working, some licensed users where posting in the Teamviewer forum why their licensed software is now no longer compatible. With the “free” version, the software becomes obsolete, while if a license was purchased for that version, the software might continue to work. So I searched why having the same versions I would still receive the same message… Came to licensing. teamviewer and Teamviewer launched as expected! GREAT I thought, that is until I tried to connect and only received the same message. Just as the article stated, I opened a command line, typed in. I had compatibility issues with some modules missing, which I resolved after following this post: So uninstalled Teamviewer on my Ubuntu 20.04 workstation and installed the same version as the Mac, which is Teamviewer 11. ![]() Well since I would not update the Teamviewer on the Mac, as that is no longer supported, I thought, Hmmm… I will just downgrade the Teamviewer I installed. Man this is nice… Boy was I wrong!Īfter downloading the latest version of Teamviewer (15.18.5), installed and tried to access the Mac, I received a message that stated that the Teamviewer that I am trying to access is older that the Teamviewer I am using and to update the Teamviewer I am trying to access. Great I thought to myself… that is done, now to install Teamviewer on my workstation and access the Mac. WOW, perfect solution, as I wanted to remove the Mac from my KVM and use those resource for another device.Īfter a few a few hours trying to find the version of Teamviewer that is compatible with the Mac, I finally found the version and downloaded the Host version, which allows the Teamviewer software to run in the background and to auto start on boot up. ![]() ![]() I came across a software called Teamviewer, which lets a user access another computer remotely. I have an old Mac OS X (OS 10.7.5 (Lion)) which I have on a shared Keyboard, Video and Monitor (KVM). In Short, requires a license to use an older version. ![]()
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