RealVNC 4.0b4 and TightVNC compatibility?

2004-01-23 Thread Phil Budne
I've run into problems mixing RealVNC 4.0b4 and TightVNC. Running an (essentially) unmodified TightVNC Java viewer (built from sources fetched from their CVS repository on January 2nd), and the RealVNC 4.0b4 server (built from sources using Visual Studio .NET 2003) running on Windows XP. I can

Server uses wrong (internal LAN) IP

2004-01-23 Thread Tim Meador
No doubt this has been ansered before, but I've done a long search through the list archives and couldn't find an answer, so here goes... I'm new to VNC, trying to use it to replace pcAnyhwere to connect from my Linux box at home to my Win2000 Pro workstation at my job. I use Win4Lin on the

Xvnc as a X-server (optionally replacing the console Xserver)

2004-01-23 Thread Corné Beerse
This is a description on how to use Xvnc as the Xserver. It is jet an other way to create an always running vnc session on unix/linux. It is based on RedHat 9 but I think it can easy be moved to every unix that has a Xvnc binary. My goal was to create a linux server that has a text console (for

Re: RealVNC 4.0b4 and TightVNC compatibility?

2004-01-23 Thread Tristan Richardson
Running an (essentially) unmodified TightVNC Java viewer (built from sources fetched from their CVS repository on January 2nd), and the RealVNC 4.0b4 server (built from sources using Visual Studio .NET 2003) running on Windows XP. I can reliably crash the RealVNC server by going into view

RE: Controlling XP PC from Win 98 PC

2004-01-23 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
There's from time from problems about WinXP. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with WinXP's internal firewall. Have you tried to disable it momentarily? OTOH, you haven't told us the result about ping. -Message d'origine- De : Seak, Teng-Fong Envoyi : jeudi

RE: vnc viewer and winvnc on same machine

2004-01-23 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
What you're asking is quite hard to accomplish. Not only VNC can't do so, I don't think any other similar software (PCAnywhere, eg) could do that either. Actually, do you just want to share the application? If so, maybe you could try to share the directory containing the Excel

RE: Firewall...

2004-01-23 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
-Message d'origine- De : Peggy Wentworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyi : vendredi 23 janvier 2004 03:47 @ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Firewall... Hello, What is the best way to find out what port to use if you have a firewall? RTFM / RTFF. The standard port is

RE: Server uses wrong (internal LAN) IP

2004-01-23 Thread James Weatherall
By default, VNC 3.3.3 doesn't bind to a particular IP address, even though it only shows one of the machine's addresses in the try icon. Have you actually tried just connecting using the public address? Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. ___ VNC-List mailing

Re: vnc viewer and winvnc on same machine

2004-01-23 Thread David Colliver
I would have thought that it should be fairly easy to accomplish. Just get the bounds of the window that you want to share. Isn't this the way netmeeting does this? Netmeeting allows you to share individual apps. Regards, Dave Colliver. http://www.FOCUSPortals.com - Original Message -

RE: Server uses wrong (internal LAN) IP

2004-01-23 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Do you mean every machine inside your LAN has a corresponding public IP address? That means there is a NAT? Or at least, your machine has a corresponding public IP address? If that's the case, normally, you could just need to put 66.140.87.26 in the vncviewer, and the rest is done by

RE: problems using a trendnet dsl router

2004-01-23 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Because you forgot to declare a virtual server on port 5800 *as well*. PS: Please don't shout (using capital letters) on mailing-list. It's not by shouting that you could obtain help. -Message d'origine- De : Carlos Carrion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyi : jeudi 22

RE: vnc viewer and winvnc on same machine

2004-01-23 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
You have to read carefully and interpret what he's written, unless it's me who misunderstood what he meant. When he said share, he actually meant to let somebody see. VNC (or PCAnywhere) is supposed to redraw everything on the screen, whatever window you have. But he wants

determining when another vnc viewer is connecting - solaris

2004-01-23 Thread Reynolds, John
Hello, I've searched the archives and found items that were close but did not really answer this question. Is there a way to send a message to the vnc display everytime a client connects? I'm starting vncserver with the alwaysshared and dontdisconnect flags because I want to allow simultaneous

Re: Server uses wrong (internal LAN) IP

2004-01-23 Thread Tim Meador
* Seak, Teng-Fong [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-23 07:10]: Do you mean every machine inside your LAN has a corresponding public IP address? That means there is a NAT? Or at least, your machine has a corresponding public IP address? Yes, each workstation is assinged a public IP, as 66.140.87.26,

Re: Server uses wrong (internal LAN) IP

2004-01-23 Thread Tim Meador
* James Weatherall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-23 06:03]: By default, VNC 3.3.3 doesn't bind to a particular IP address, even though it only shows one of the machine's addresses in the try icon. Have you actually tried just connecting using the public address? Sure, no go. Running it from a

RE: Server uses wrong (internal LAN) IP

2004-01-23 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
And of course an obvious question: is there any port filter on the cisco router? Or in other words, is at least the port 5900 is allowed? -Message d'origine- De : Tim Meador [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyi : vendredi 23 janvier 2004 14:11 @ : James Weatherall Cc : [EMAIL

RE: Server uses wrong (internal LAN) IP

2004-01-23 Thread James Weatherall
Tim, Have you checked that the VNC port (5900 in this case) is not being blocked for the external IP by any firewall settings? I assume that the external IP is the IP of a network card in that machine, rather than the IP of a NAT router or cable modem? Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.

Re: Server uses wrong (internal LAN) IP

2004-01-23 Thread Tim Meador
* James Weatherall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-23 07:42]: Have you checked that the VNC port (5900 in this case) is not being blocked for the external IP by any firewall settings? I assume that the external IP is the IP of a network card in that machine, rather than the IP of a NAT router or

re:Subject: problems using a trendnet dsl router

2004-01-23 Thread support
I had the same problem until I realised I needed to use 5801 and 5901 for the first machine, 5802 and 5902 for the second machine, etc, and to set up the servers to display 1 and display 2 etc instead of automatic. Then everything worked. You log on to your public ip address with :1 or :2 behind

4.0b4 Registry Keys

2004-01-23 Thread Adam Erica
I was wondering if there has been any new registry keys added/dropped/changed from the 3 version? I looked through the documentation but it doesn't specifically say any registry keys. Thanks in advance for any help. Adam - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder

Unable to connect to a VNC Server

2004-01-23 Thread Ron Lavery
I am running VNC on a Windows XP PC and continually get a Connection Rejected Error or an Authentication Failed Error. We originally installed VNC3.3.6. We check setting on it, we tried uninstalling and reinstalling, we tried upgrading to VNC 3.3.7, still no resolution. I have VNC installed and

RE: Xvnc as a X-server (optionally replacing the console Xserver)

2004-01-23 Thread Bennett, Chris
If I can find some time, I might put this description on a website some time. If others want to do so, please do. If I come acros any other system (HP-UX might be the first) I might mail an update. Be free to test it on any other system. Most likely you only need to update the Xservers file

Re: VNC Server On Linux

2004-01-23 Thread R. S. Patil
Thanks Zach, Not that this reply necessarily helps, but I get just the opposite. My Linux box boots to runlevel 3, but when I connect using vnc viewer on windows xp my vnc viewer gets the kde desktop. =) Want to trade? Well, let us trade on barter system. I will tell how did what I got

Re: Xvnc as a X-server (optionally replacing the console Xserver)

2004-01-23 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:48:42AM -0500, Bennett, Chris wrote: Thanks for that, been looking for the -dontdisconnect option, which is undocumented! I configured an Xvnc as the Xserver by doing the following :- Instead of -dontdisconnect you should use -DisconnectClients=false for version

[patch] RealVNC 4.0b4 (Xvnc): fix vncconfig -connect

2004-01-23 Thread Tim Waugh
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114063 While attempting a reverse connection from the VNC module in the XFree86 server to the vncviewer client, it is very likely that a SIGALRM will interrupt the connect() system call. Unfortunately, the existing code treats this as a

4.0b4

2004-01-23 Thread Travis Griggs
We've downloaded and are using VNC 4. We really like it. Thank you to any/all who have worked on it. It's faster and has more features. We're using it on a Linux system. The date for the release was September or something like that... we've been seeing some crashes and the like, should I be

RE: 4.0b4 Registry Keys

2004-01-23 Thread James Weatherall
Server keys live under [HKLM|HKCU]/Software/RealVNC/WinVNC4. Viewer keys live under HKCU/Software/RealVNC/VNCViewer4. The available options that can be set are described at http://www.realvnc.com/v4/winvnc.html and http://www.realvnc.com/v4/winvncviewer.html. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.

RE: Unable to connect to a VNC Server

2004-01-23 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
The other 29 are non-XP? -Message d'origine- De : Ron Lavery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyi : vendredi 23 janvier 2004 17:23 @ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Unable to connect to a VNC Server I am running VNC on a Windows XP PC and continually get a Connection Rejected

Re: problems using a trendnet dsl router

2004-01-23 Thread Scott C. Best
Carlos: Hola. What you are trying to do does not work with most DSL routers. That is, from a PC behind the router, you will not be able to access a VNC Server that's also behind the router using the router's external IP address. That sort of looping just isn't supported by most DSL

Re: Firewall...

2004-01-23 Thread Scott C. Best
Peggy: Hello! The Fine FAQ that Teng-Fong mentions in his email is here: http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/63.html That should have all the info you need regarding VNC and firewalls. Please let me know if it doesn't. :) -Scott Hello, What is the best way to

licensing?

2004-01-23 Thread cutter
Hello, a quick question: Some people at the company I work for think that you need to buy a CAL if you want to connect a Windows workstation to ANY server, even a non-MS server such as a linux box with Xvnc running on it. I think this is not true. I'm not about to ask MS since I'm sure they'll

Silent install to Win2K

2004-01-23 Thread Ray . Cruz
How to install vnc and service thru Logon scripts? In addition, can I also place default pasword during silent install? Ray Cruz IT Analyst Middlesex Vicinage (732) 981-3281 ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the

failed connection with vnc 3.3.7

2004-01-23 Thread Vlad Vasilianu
Hi all, I installed vnc 3.3.7 on a machine and I am running the vnc server as a service. At anytime when a user is logged on this machine I cannot take control, I get an error message saying either 'connection refused' or 'failed authentication' . No problems to connect if the user is logged off,

Fw: Sound in vnc howto

2004-01-23 Thread Tom Lemcke
I guess this is a re-submission of the original newsgroup email. - Original Message - From: Christian Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Sound in vnc howto I read in several mails on the mailinglist that

Xvnc questions

2004-01-23 Thread Travis Griggs
The Xvnc X-Server is a virtual Xserver... in what ways does it differ from the display xfree86-4? In particular I'm curious about: 1) dpi. For a normal desktop x server, I startx -dpi 100 to get my 100 dpi fonts to have preference over the 75 ones. How does Xvnc decide between 100 and 75 dpi

RE: licensing?

2004-01-23 Thread Rick Cooper
Have those people read this : http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/server/howtobuy/pricing/mode l.asp Which describes the windows 2000 client access model. It's pretty much the same as their other service CAL models. The key point is a CAL is required for clients that connect to MS services,

Re: failed connection with vnc 3.3.7

2004-01-23 Thread William Hooper
Vlad Vasilianu said: Hi all, I installed vnc 3.3.7 on a machine and I am running the vnc server as a service. At anytime when a user is logged on this machine I cannot take control, I get an error message saying either 'connection refused' or 'failed authentication' . No problems to connect