title: how to connect to remote mac with xamarin/visual studio?
body: <p>Just installed Visual Studio Enterprise 2017, hoping to use Xamarin to develop iOS apps, which I have abandoned in the past due to connection issues with Xamarin.</p>
  
  <p>No matter what I do, Xamarin will not reliably connect to the Mac on the network.  It did connect once but, suspecting my old Mac is too slow to avoid timeout issues with Xamarin, I rented a cloud Mac from MacInCloud.com. Xamarin still won't connect to the remote, even though I can SSH to it via Putty.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have a system that works reliably, or know of a good way to troubleshoot this? Xamarin error reporting and logging does not seem to help in any way. </p>