RE: Colourmaps (was Re: No write access to /tmp/.x11-unix )

2003-01-22 Thread Beerse, Corné
-Original Message- From: Damian Skeeles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Thanks! I'd read a bit about colormaps and pixelmaps, and was starting to think that it was a problem with the pixel maps (as the error implies). I decided to try out all the colormap settings again though, and

Re: backdoor?

2003-01-22 Thread Tim Waugh
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:52:28PM -0500, Ted Toporkov wrote: is anyone aware of a backdoor in realvnc? i believe my vnc server was breached, but im not sure why or how. There is no backdoor, as you can verify yourself (check the source code). But the fact that there is very little

Binaries Solaris x86 available

2003-01-22 Thread Andreas Schmidt
Hello, I just compiled the actual release of XVNC on Solaris x86. It is compiled on Sokaris 2.8, but should also run on the other releases. I will test it on 2.9 the next days. It is available for download on http://www.schmiddis-flieger.de, together with some hints about installation - enjoy.

VNC and PowerPoint

2003-01-22 Thread Graham Naylor-Smith
I found out about this program yesterday and it is impressive. I would like to use it to share a PowerPoint screen to multiple sites, yet it seems much slower in getting PowerPoint images to another end than if the same full screen graphic image was being sent from another application. Is there

Stumped by loopback with SSH

2003-01-22 Thread Alex Morris
Yesterday I managed to get VNC working over SSH. At least, I think I did. Many thanks to the various pieces of documentation found on the ATT VNC site. I installed TightVNC 1.2.7 and OpenSSH for Windows 3.4.3 on two Windows machines, PC1 (Windows XP) and PC2 (Windows 2000). PC2 is the PC

RE: Stumped by loopback with SSH

2003-01-22 Thread LUPTAK,MIROSLAV (HP-Slovakia,ex1)
Alex, I believe the soultion is to use ssh -l administrator -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 -C PC2 with OpenSSH. Best regards, Miro -Original Message- From: Alex Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed, Jan 22, 2003 11:32 To: VNC List Subject: Stumped by loopback with SSH

Re: Stumped by loopback with SSH

2003-01-22 Thread Alex Morris
I believe the soultion is to use ssh -l administrator -L 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 -C PC2 with OpenSSH. Best regards, Miro That did the trick. Many thanks. I could have sworn I tried that yesterday, but I guess I hadn't. Thanks once again. -- Alex Morris

Re: Java vncviewer with 32bits color support

2003-01-22 Thread Constantin Kaplinsky
Hello Kun, KW == Kun Wei [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KW Hello, Is the Java vncviewer available with 32bits color depth? KW Otherwise I would like to contribute. TightVNC Java viewer does support 24-bit colors (and includes many other improvements): http://www.tightvnc.com/ -- With Best

Re: Best VNC?

2003-01-22 Thread Alex Morris
We also have some laptops, that our reps user, so I've been installing tight vnc 1.2.6 on them, 1.2.7 is available. Is there a version that is both secure, and gives better compression? According to all the documentation I've been reading over the past few days, VNC itself isn't secure, nor

VNC IPv6 RE: VNC-Tight-list digest, Vol 1 #422 - 13 msgs (fwd)

2003-01-22 Thread Diego Andres Acosta Ortiz
Hi, We have a VNC IPv6 implementation and I would like to make it part of the VNC. Thanks -- *** Diego Andris Acosta[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dep. Sistemas e Ingenierma Telematica Tel: 913367366 ext 442 Univ.

tight encoding in realvnc?

2003-01-22 Thread Jerry Asher
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 16:55, James ''Wez'' Weatherall wrote: You have missed out the encoding that VNC would actually use over a 56K line - ZRLE. ZRLE performs at least as well as Tight over slow connections, and was introduced in VNC 3.3.4, which is why there's been no need to add the Tight

xinerama expose-events bug with vncviewer

2003-01-22 Thread Bryan Levin
anyone run dualhead X with xinerama and vncviewer? it generally runs fine but when dragging windows opaquely from one head to another, you get partial window refreshes. whole rectangles are left 'white' and only when you force a refresh (like hiding and then unhiding them) do they repaint. this

vnc on solaris 2.8 not starting CDE dtwm window manager

2003-01-22 Thread Stephen Mitchell
VNC 3.3.4 Solaris 2.8 I have configured vnc to run with the twm window manager. I now wish to use the dtwm window manager. the $HOME/.dt/errorlog reports the following when dtwm starts. Wed Jan 22 15:18:49 2003 Workspace Manager: failed to load font: }a:~uU}pBh I checked the vncserver script

Re: backdoor?

2003-01-22 Thread Jeff Towarnicki
I wouldn't trust VNC without a decent firewall backing it up. You should know all the IP's or locations of which you will be using VNC from, and set up the firewall to allow only packets to the ports VNC are on to trickle through from these known ip's, virtualy eliminating any attempt for your VNC

Re: Java vncviewer with 32bits color support

2003-01-22 Thread Kun Wei
Thanks. Is the TightVNC is best performance considering network transmission? I used some VNC to view PowerPoint from remote site, the refresh is really slow and sometimes unacceptable. Kun Constantin Kaplinsky wrote: Hello Kun, KW == Kun Wei [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KW Hello, Is the

Re: Fw: linksys router and dynamic ip's

2003-01-22 Thread Scott C. Best
Kenny: Heya. If you're testing using www.GoToMyVNC.com from the work PC that's running a VNC server, and it's *not* reporting success...then something is either blocking the packets, or your VNC server isn't setup right. Please double-check that the LinkSys router is setup correctly, and

Starting VNC server: 2:myusername [Failed] || Could not open network socket

2003-01-22 Thread bhensley
When Redhat 7.3 is booting and loading the services, I get this for vcnserver: Starting vncserver: Starting VNC server: 2:myusername [Failed] [Failed] Also, when it was working, the client and server both had the following error: Could not open network socket Any help asap would be greatly

Re: backdoor?

2003-01-22 Thread Ted Toporkov
to block certain ip's from accessing the server, do i have... registry entry for that myself? if so would would it look ... AuthHosts REG_SZ -68.100 (to block the entire 68.100.0.0 network)? i just gave it a try and its not working, someone from 68.100.220.143 was able to connect, i must have

Re: Starting VNC server: 2:myusername [Failed] || Could not open network socket

2003-01-22 Thread William Hooper
- Original Message - From: bhensley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vnclist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 3:36 PM Subject: Starting VNC server: 2:myusername [Failed] || Could not open network socket When Redhat 7.3 is booting and loading the services, I get this for

Re: backdoor?

2003-01-22 Thread William Hooper
- Original Message - From: Ted Toporkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:09 PM Subject: Re: backdoor? to block certain ip's from accessing the server, do i have... registry entry for that myself? if so would would it look ... AuthHosts REG_SZ

Re: vnc and ssh

2003-01-22 Thread William Hooper
- Original Message - From: Reinhard Eisberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:12 AM Subject: vnc and ssh I am quite new to vnc and not so much experienced with firewall topics. Is there a simple description on how to setup VNC for use in an