VNC viewer ignores -truecolor

2003-06-20 Thread Fred Ma
Hello, I am using TightVNC connect from sunbox to sunbox. The remote VNC server is 24-bit true color, while the local machine's display has 6 visuals, one of which is 24-bit true color. When I try to start the vncviewer with -truecolor, it always says that it is using 8-bit pseudocolor. I

Call-back feature

2003-06-20 Thread Lucien Wells
Hi All, I was wondering if anyone knew if the following is currently possible either with VNC as is, or via a seperate addon/program: What I am after is a call back feature of sorts. My company does software support and we have quite a number of small clients. Often these clients ring us for

Re: Call-back feature

2003-06-20 Thread Dave Warren
Lucien Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However -- and here comes the problem -- most of these small clients have a variety of different internet connections, and almost none of them have a static IP address. So to help, we have to work out what the IP address of client's machine on which VNC

VNC over different subnet mask

2003-06-20 Thread ben . blackmore
Hi, We've just run out of IP addresses on our network, so we're moving to a different scope, current IPs are running 192.168.60.1 - 255 the new scope is 192.168.61.1 - 255. and subnet mask 255.255.248.0 When I try to connect with VNC from my PC (old scope) to a new PC (new scope) it fails. I've

Re: VNC over different subnet mask

2003-06-20 Thread Dave Warren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We've just run out of IP addresses on our network, so we're moving to a different scope, current IPs are running 192.168.60.1 - 255 the new scope is 192.168.61.1 - 255. and subnet mask 255.255.248.0 When I try to connect with VNC from my PC (old scope) to a new

Re: VNC over different subnet mask

2003-06-20 Thread Kae Verens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We've just run out of IP addresses on our network, so we're moving to a different scope, current IPs are running 192.168.60.1 - 255 the new scope is 192.168.61.1 - 255. and subnet mask 255.255.248.0 When I try to connect with VNC from my PC (old scope) to a new PC

RE: VNC over different subnet mask

2003-06-20 Thread Beerse, Corné
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, We've just run out of IP addresses on our network, so we're moving to a different scope, Should be a totally different scope, not just an other netmask, also an other network. Then the routers can do a lot for you, now you only have

RE: VNC over different subnet mask

2003-06-20 Thread Beerse, Corné
-Original Message- From: Beerse, Corni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 20 juni 2003 14:22 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: VNC over different subnet mask -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, We've just run out of IP

RE: VNC over different subnet mask

2003-06-20 Thread Beerse, Corné
-Original Message- From: William Hooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: vrijdag 20 juni 2003 14:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: VNC over different subnet mask Beerse, Corni said: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] When I try to connect with VNC

RE: VNC over different subnet mask

2003-06-20 Thread William Hooper
Beerse, Corni said: -Original Message- From: William Hooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] Agreed. There is still the question of why it doesn't work after changing the subnet mask to be the same. It is really a TCP/IP problem, not a VNC one. Waiting on the results of the ping

Re: Call-back feature

2003-06-20 Thread Jonathan Maton
I know exactly what you mean. On your side, (assuming you're using Windows) run vncviewer -listen You'll have a red vnc icon in the system tray, you probably want to go ahead and right-click this, choose properties, set it to 8-bit. (I can't seem to get it to do it from command line,

Server startup error

2003-06-20 Thread Clawson, Simon
Hi! I guess this is a pretty common error, but I am new so go easy on me ;-) We have a group of users who have set up a script to start several VNC servers on a Sunblade. When the system, starts a number of these servers start OK, and a number don't. If you then try to start the failed servers

Re: VNC through a NAT box

2003-06-20 Thread Chad LaFarge
Jim, What I do is set up each machine (server) as a different display number: 1, 2, 3 Then I set port forwarding to the appropriate machine (assumes you're using the browser... exclude the 58xx if not): display 1 needs 5801 and 5901 display 2 needs 5802 and 5902 display 3 needs 5803 and 5903

Re: Call-back feature

2003-06-20 Thread Jonathan Maton
Yes, if you have a static IP (or at least a static dns-resolvable name) you could give them a batch file with: winvnc -connect yourip (following is from the WinVNC documentation) -connect host Tells a running copy of WinVNC to initiate an outgoing connection to a listening viewer running

Re: Linksys router config issue

2003-06-20 Thread stuart taylor
Make sure that you have fowarded the correct prots. When i did my fowarding I could remeber if VNC used 1 port up or down so.. My fowarding setting is 5899 to 5901 try that. _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN

RE: Call-back feature

2003-06-20 Thread ViNCe
why not put all vnc related files (duh, just 3 files) in the %systemroot% ? start, run and there we go! i'm using something like that, with my DNS already in the 'outgoing' connection window, some parts disabled, my own icon on the tray, and translated it on the fly to Dutch... want something

Re: Call-back feature

2003-06-20 Thread Jonathan Maton
hehe, no but that is cool. :) I had to rewrite a few parts for use here at work, but it never occured to me to go ahead and put my ip address in the Connect new client box so the customer has less to type. Or hell just add a menu item to the right-click menu that says Connect to Support.

Error on aix

2003-06-20 Thread Steve Palocz
Hey all, I am running vnc 3.3 on AIX 4.3. I have it running on a few of these without problem using the -query localhost option. I have just tried it on another aix server and get this error message. Fatal server error: XDMCP fatal error: Session declined No valid address I have searched

bandwidth needed?

2003-06-20 Thread Mike Eggleston
Having a problem with remote viewers watching one of my internal win2k boxes. The win2k box has a screen resolution of 1280x1024x8 (just dropped screen depth from 32-8). I have five people that watch the screen during the day (business hours). On the screen is a graphics intensive program, so

automate multiple vncservers on startup

2003-06-20 Thread carey.uselman
I have a linux server that I'm running three vncservers on. Each vncserver is for a different user's desktop. Currently, I login as each user and start the vncserver from a terminal window, exit out of terminal window and logout of the desktop. Now I can go to a remote machine and use either a

Re: automate multiple vncservers on startup

2003-06-20 Thread William Hooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have a linux server that I'm running three vncservers on. Each vncserver is for a different user's desktop. [snip] What I need to do is to automate this process, in case of a long term power failure. (I have an UPS on the linux server.) So when the linux server

Re: automate multiple vncservers on startup

2003-06-20 Thread Tony Whitmore
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 9:39 PM Subject: automate multiple vncservers on startup I have a linux server that I'm running three vncservers on. Each vncserver is for a different user's desktop. Currently, I login as