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When the machines are on the same wireless network (that is, when I bring my personal computer into the office to test my remote connection) I can get audio to stream from my work machine to my personal machine using Soundfly (and the Soundflower extension: ). I can get ports created for me if need be, but I can't significantly reconfigure the router(s) at my office. I'm not able to reconfigure the router settings at my office at-will, so solutions that involve reconfiguring a router are probably out.

I do connect using VPN before initiating the screen share, so I think it would be possible to trick my personal computer into thinking it is on the same network as my work machine, but I haven't been able to figure out how to do that. Unfortunately, I'm needing the audio to stream from one mac to another, connected to different wireless networks. Everything out there seems to support streaming audio from one mac to another through the SAME wireless network. I imagine others who work remotely are also facing this issue. In fact, I'm surprised I can't find more information about this problem. However, the inability to stream the audio from my remote machine over VNC has lately become a big problem.

I often connect remotely through VNC from my personal Macbook Pro to do video editing and motion graphics work on my more powerful work machine.

I will update the thread with the results of that trial.Hi - I'm a video producer with a late 2015 iMac at work. I'm stumped! My next test will be to try screen sharing with the Catalina Mac from a High Seirra Mac to rule out El Capitan causing the issue. We also checked System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy and made sure that wasn't restricting access, but neither Messages nor Screen Sharing show up in the list. We even tried with both of our firewalls turned completely off to see if that would make a difference.

When 'Screen Sharing' was checked (turned on) we made sure both of our firewalls were allowing connections for it. We tried connecting with 'Screen Sharing' checked in System Preferences > Sharing AND tried with it unchecked (on each machine). The El Capitan Mac is fully updated with no updates available. Is available and the firewall is not blocking screen sharing.' The request to screen share is received but then, after trying to connect for 10 seconds or so, the error still comes up, saying 'Unable to communicate with 'Her Name'. We even signed out and back in to be certain.ДЄfter encountering the connection issue when using the Screen Sharing app directly, we tried doing it through Messages, and encountered the exact same error. We checked to make sure both Apple IDs were fully signed in on their respective machines. We tried restarting both devices a few times. Thank you so much for your reply, jeremy_v! Is El Capitan no longer able to screen share with Catalina? We have tried it with the Screen Sharing option in System Preferences > Sharing both on AND off (previously it worked with this turned off/unchecked, so I first tried turning it on, but it made no difference so I turned it back off).ДЄnyone know why this stopped working and/or if there is a way to get it going again? The computer is connected to the internet and the firewall is not blocking screen sharing, I checked both of those. Make sure the remote computer is available and the firewall is not blocking screen sharing.' She sees and accepts the request when I send it, but I get an error that says: Today she updated to Catalina 10.15.4 and, via the same process, I cannot get Screen Sharing to connect. I am on El Capitan 10.11 and she was on High Sierra 10.13.

I open Screen Sharing, type in her Apple ID and have been connecting and working with no problems. I have been using Apple's built-in 'Screen Sharing' app to help a relative who lives in another town with her Mac.

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