RE: REstart

2002-08-29 Thread Haan, de, Jan
Hi, I personally would manage it from the commandline (cmd/command) or from a batch-file (*.bat) with net start to view wether it is running at all, net stop VNC Server to stop it, and net start VNC Server to start it on Windows NT/2K/XP. Sincerely, Jan.

RE: Connecting NT4 Client to VNCserver running HP-UX 11.00 aft er reboot of server

2002-08-29 Thread Sam . Gigliuto
Thanks Corne' The idea to install VNC came from oracle support, to fix a problem with printing some reports which assume that you have a graphically capable system console. As we just have a plain old ascii terminal, Xvnc solves our problem It was installed by oracle to run as the oracle db

RE: Connection problem

2002-08-29 Thread Haan, de, Jan
Hi, as far as I can conclude from your e-amil, you are using the public infrastructure/internet (through an ISP) to connect from home to your work. Since you are using private addresses (192.168.X) this won't work by definition because this addresses are never transported over

VNC Mailing Lists - possible disruption

2002-08-29 Thread Andy Harter
We are about to move the vnc mailing lists to a new server. We think this should be transparent to most people, but there may be a slight disruption to your service as DNS entries propagate. Apologies for any inconvenience. Regards The VNC Team ___

X Server Connection

2002-08-29 Thread Ingo
Hi, every X application talks with the VNC server through the X protocol. So I thing it is right ! My question is now, where is the sourcecode to this part of the VNC server. I mean in what file ( *.c ) is it implemented that the VNCServer waits for X protocol messages ? I hope anybody can

RE: REstart :VSMail MX1

2002-08-29 Thread Ben . McBeen
It is if you are trying to do it through VNC :-) If you are working with a windows VNC server, you can do this at a CMD prompt: sc \\servername start winvnc -Original Message- From: Steve Palocz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Click the button that says start. Then choose the shutdown

Display number with inetd

2002-08-29 Thread Marc Mazas
Hi I'm on Solaris 8, with VNC 3.3.3R2 (Solaris 2.5 bundle). I've an application (ERP Oracle Applications through Apache JServ) that need to access the vnc server through a specific display number (as it is a fixed parameter, so I choosed 99). When I launch the vnc server through the command line,

RE: Connecting NT4 Client to VNCserver running HP-UX 11.00 af t er reboot of server

2002-08-29 Thread Beerse, Corné
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] The idea to install VNC came from oracle support, to fix a problem with printing some reports which assume that you have a graphically capable system console. As we just have a plain old ascii terminal, Xvnc

Re: [despammed] VNC is hackable (was VPN and VNC)

2002-08-29 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Mike, Yes, Wes Groleau's statement was incorrect. Having dealt with the way that VNC handles the password both in the registry and over the network datastream, I can assure you that it is not passed in clear text. Whether the VNC password security is sufficient or not depends greatly on your

Re: Re: VPN and VNC

2002-08-29 Thread John Creegan
Don't forget how Microsoft got hacked through their VPN... Your VPN can be compromised if the machine you use to connect through it is compromised. Message: 6 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Gillis) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: VPN and VNC Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:55:17 -0400

Re: VNC is hackable

2002-08-29 Thread Richard Harris
Am I wrong? Wouldn't they have to sniff packets and decrypt to get the password? suppose it can be done, but I don't know that anyone is doing it. I don't know about packet sniffing, but the password can be comprised. You can read the WinVNC password from the registry and there is a

Re: VNC is hackable

2002-08-29 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:53:06 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: [despammed] VNC is hackable (was VPN and VNC) Unless you have added encryption to it, the passwords are not encrypted. But what the heck, neither are 90+% of the passwords on other services. Wes, I've read on various

VNC Mailing Lists - possible disruption

2002-08-29 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
From: Andy Harter To: Subject: VNC Mailing Lists - possible disruption Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:54:49 +0100 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are about to move the vnc mailing lists to a new server. Hope it has a search engine =) --- Fred Ma

Help

2002-08-29 Thread Bourguet, Jean-Pierre
Does anyone know a trick to obtain the '~' and '`' characters on an xterm client whan using a French keyboard of a PC ? Look like they are dead keys. On the French keyboard you normally press AltGR + 2 and Alt Gr + 7. This is working quiet well on all other Windows applications. Thanks

Re: VNC Plugins

2002-08-29 Thread Richard Harris
I haven't seen anymore posts on this. Is this idea dead in the water? Personally, I like this idea a lot I makes a lot of sense. The idea that you can have a basic VNC server and then a series of plugins. But it's down to the programmers at the end of the day isn't it? ;-) Would you need

RE: VNC Plugins

2002-08-29 Thread Ben . McBeen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The API would be the same, but the pluggin binary would have to be platform/CPU specific. You could use a language like Java, but speed intensive things like encoders wouldn't work well (maybe). I would consider working on it, but it would be better

Re: Tightvnc...

2002-08-29 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
The upcoming release of VNC includes significantly improved compression of updates and can automatically select the best client settings for your network connection, so you may want to just wait for that. (Should be out very soon!) :) Cheers, -- --- James Wez Weatherall

Mac client crashy

2002-08-29 Thread Andrew Farmer
While using the Macintosh version of the ATT client with the Linux 3.3.3r2 server (both unmodified), I have found that, under Mac OS 9.2.2, the client seems to crash quite often when transferring large detailed areas. Other Mac clients seem to handle this situation better, but either run more

VNC Service cannot start automatically

2002-08-29 Thread Bernhard Georg Enders
Dear all, I'm running Win2000 Pro SP3 on several machines and can't get VNC service automatically started at boot time. I've been reading this list to find a solution for this problem but I didn't. The service seemed to be correctly installed, in the Startup Type column (in mmc) we have

starting Xvnc at boot time as non root user

2002-08-29 Thread Norris Pouhovitch
Hi Everybody, I was writing this email hoping to catch an eye of the FAQ maintainer for the VNC. I had been looking for a way of starting a vnc server at boot time under linux (*nix) automatically. And while I could find only information on how to do this with the Xvnc started as a root user

RE: VNC Plugins

2002-08-29 Thread William Hooper
Rudi De Vos said: [snip] GPL: plugins are not part of vnc, they are just .dlls or .so that are loaded by vnc. Plugins DON'T have to be gpl because they are not a part of vnc. Rudi [snip] Since a re-compile is going to be needed anyway, you might as well have the different

Re: Tightvnc...

2002-08-29 Thread Francis VIVAT
Hi, please, don't let us in the fog ... Very soon means ... days or weeks ? CU . \)|(/ . (o o) . /-ooO(_)Ooo-\ .(_| Francis VIVAT | . |CETP-CNRS

RE: Tightvnc...

2002-08-29 Thread Thompson, Dale W.
And will this upcoming release include all the good things that have been added with the development of TightVNC/TridiaVNC? -Original Message- From: Francis VIVAT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tightvnc... Hi,

RE: VNC is hackable

2002-08-29 Thread Steve Bostedor
Also, be weary about saving your passwords in config files. This has been a common topic among our VNCScan users. Network Administrators have found their co-workers saving them to hard drives that where not protected very well. No need to sniff if you can pull them from a network

Xvnc dies everytime on Solaris.

2002-08-29 Thread Nagakiran Rajashekar
Hi, My Xvnc dies on a regular basis when I launch netscape on my Solaris CDE. Lot of other X applications make the server crash too. One of the stack traces I have for server crash is, === Stack 1: SIGSEGV: Segmentation Fault (address not mapped

Inactive VNC sessions timeout

2002-08-29 Thread Jeffery Myers
I seem to remember an earlier discussion about this but can't seem to locate in my archives. I would like to be able to disconnect sessions with no activity after a period of time. Is there an easy way? I'm using Linux on the server side and Win32 on the viewer. j

Preventing 2nd user starting a VNC session

2002-08-29 Thread Chris Val Bamber
Dear All, Does anyone know how I can stop another user running VNC to a workstation that I am already connected to via VNC. In normal operation my session gets disconnected and they are then connected. No warning messages or anything. Seems hardly fair! Thanks Chris

Re: Preventing 2nd user starting a VNC session

2002-08-29 Thread Andrew Farmer
At 29 August, 2002 Chris Val Bamber wrote: Does anyone know how I can stop another user running VNC to a workstation that I am already connected to via VNC. In normal operation my session gets disconnected and they are then connected. No warning messages or anything. Seems hardly fair! If

RE: Preventing 2nd user starting a VNC session

2002-08-29 Thread David Bozarth
Chris, There is a way to prevent the second user from disconnecting your session. You will need to create a new key in the registry of the VNC server machine. In the registry location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\WinVNC3 create a new DWORD key named ConnectPriority with a value of 2. This

Re: VNC opens GUI on the server

2002-08-29 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
I don't understand exactly what your problem is. What do you mean the GUI windows is opened on the server but not on the display? If the windows opens on the VNC server, that it should appear on your vncviewer. It will, of course, not open on your local machine since your local machine (I

Re: X Server Connection

2002-08-29 Thread Preetham
- Original Message - From: Ingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:19 PM Subject: X Server Connection Hi, every X application talks with the VNC server through the X protocol. So I thing it is right ! Every X Application talks to the Xserver

Re: IP Range und Windows NT - Please help

2002-08-29 Thread William Hooper
- Original Message - From: Lagemann Christoph MT-D (Exchange) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: VNC List (E-Mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 6:52 AM Subject: IP Range und Windows NT - Please help I finally found the Place, where the AuthHost is set. Unfortunately this

Re: Multiple Servers on a Win Machine...

2002-08-29 Thread Wayne Throop
: Here is my goal: One user in Chicago must control one PC in St Louis. : Five users in New York, L.A., and Seattle must be able to view, but : not control the same PC. : 1) Two VNC Servers running on the same Windows machine: one for the : Controller and one for Viewers Or 2) Two passwords

Re: VNC opens GUI on the server

2002-08-29 Thread Wayne Throop
: I've got a problem with the displaying of the GUI : during the VNC session. If I run any program which : opens the GUI window the window is opened on the : server, but not on my display :( The VNC server is : installed on Sun Solaris and the client is on Windows. : I thought it should be

Re: Mac client crashy

2002-08-29 Thread Andrew Farmer
At 29 August, 2002 Andrew Farmer wrote: While using the Macintosh version of the ATT client with the Linux 3.3.3r2 server (both unmodified), I have found that, under Mac OS 9.2.2, the client seems to crash quite often when transferring large detailed areas. Other Mac clients seem to handle

Re: Multiple Servers on a Win Machine...

2002-08-29 Thread William Hooper
- Original Message - From: Chad LaFarge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: VNC List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:04 PM Subject: Multiple Servers on a Win Machine... [snip] In other words, I need to give a demo to five remote users on a PC that I can't access physically. In

Re: VNC Service cannot start automatically

2002-08-29 Thread William Hooper
- Original Message - From: Thompson, Dale W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:05 PM Subject: RE: VNC Service cannot start automatically Did you configure VNC after installing using Start\Programs\VNC\Administration\Show Default Settings? If

Re: Inactive VNC sessions timeout

2002-08-29 Thread William Hooper
- Original Message - From: Jeffery Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 3:05 PM Subject: Inactive VNC sessions timeout I seem to remember an earlier discussion about this but can't seem to locate in my archives. I would like to be able to

Re: VNC is hackable (was VPN and VNC)

2002-08-29 Thread Wes Groleau
Unless you have added encryption to it, the passwords are not encrypted. Please explain the discrepancy between the claim above and FAQ #55: I will freely admit that I have not studied the source code thoroughly. I can think of three possible explanations for the discrepancy. There may be

Re: VNC Plugins

2002-08-29 Thread Ian Simcock
I once suggested that it might be good to go one step further and have the client and server programs changed to be soly able to load other libraries and then handle the communication between them. Thus you'd run the client, tell it what network protocal you want to use and which server you want

Re: Man pages - command options?

2002-08-29 Thread Akira Hatakeyama
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:53:24PM +0700, Constantin Kaplinsky wrote: Also, TightVNC man pages are available on the Web, see: http://www.tightvnc.com/docs.html#unix Is there any WinVNC Advanced Setting equivalent for TightVNC ? -- Akira HatakeyamaE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VNC Service cannot start automatically

2002-08-29 Thread Bernhard Georg Enders
You wrote: I would say it sounds like you are settings the vnc current user password not the default (system password). Check the title of the window for the properties you are setting. Yes, I do this. And afterward I merged regfile into the registry. The service only works with the vnc