hanks for the response, sorry to hear about the downfall of the group. Yeah, we use 2000 here, so no remote desktop. I can understand the logic of keypresses being passed through the desktop control, but the thing is.. the intial state of the clients laptop has the numlock off, when I connect, I would expect it to stay off untill I push the numlock key, but that's not the case. It's a silly thing that just causes far more work than needed...
Thanks again for the response Cheers, Frank --- Brian Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - > > > > Good morning to everyone, hopefully this forum is > active enough to > > generate some sort of a response to my > situation/question. > > I work in a helpdesk for a large global > organization and we use > > Netmeeting on a very regular basis, particularly > the desktop sharing. > > The activity on this list is minimal these days > (other than spammers > attempting to use the list). I suspect it will go to > near zero as Vista > release approaches and NetMeeting's air is further > restricted. In fact I was > thinking that I would soon shut it down (but as the > effort to keep it going > with so little traffic is minimal that probably is > not justified at this > time). > > > > > > The problem I am having difficulty solving is that > when I (a desktop > > PC user) connects to my customer (99% laptop > users) my > > keyboard "status" is passed through netmeeting to > my clients > > machine. By that I mean that as soon as I take > control of their > > desktop, because I have my numlock key turned on, > their turns on as > > well. The problem with this is that on IBM > thinkpads, when you > > enable numlock, half of the keyboard turns into > numbers, which, when > > typing into a password field is pretty hard to > detect, the result is > > alot of locked domain accounts over something > really silly. > > > > I know I could turn my numlock off, but I use it, > often and turning > > it off is more of a pain in the ass than the > locked domain accounts. > > Is there a registry entry somewhere that will turn > this off? > > > > Look forward to any and all responses. > > > > > I wasn't aware of this before your posting but it > seems "logical" that this > would happen. I can't think of anything that you can > do to ensure that this > doesn't happen (other then than what you have > indicated -- turn numlock off > before connecting). I must admit that I have > abandoned Netmeeting as a > vehicle for remote desktop sharing/control (and > instead use "Remote > Desktop") -- not sure if that is an option in your > case or not. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/AyiolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/netmeeting-discussion/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
