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I got stuck!

The Apple remote desktop license we had in the office expired Dec. 31, 2006. 

Good thing the Xserve allows vnc connections.  All you need to do is enable it.  You do this by going to system preference, sharing and then set the vnc password under the Apple Remote Desktop setting.  But you do this via the GUI. But what do you do when you don't have a GUI to work with?

I googled for a way to enable VNC via the terminal and found this link:

http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/cli/setting_remote_desktops_vnc_password_in_terminal

I did try out the script but was still unable to login to the server using chicken of the vnc.  The error I kept getting was a noauth error saying that I should enable VNC on the server.

The trick was using kickstart to control ARD and set the vnc password.  There was an issue on how the password is to be encoded.  But still... no luck for me getting in via vnc.

Another tip was to just copy the plist file of the VNCsettings from another machine. 

I was just about to do this option after trying out different command options for kickstart when I was able to get an updated license for ARD.  I made sure to enable vnc connections this time around.

So, what lesson did I learn?  Make sure that you are not dependent on software that expire.

If you know of the right way to enable vnc via the terminal, please post a comment.  Thanks!