RE: Firefox + VNC links

2009-05-18 Thread James Weatherall
Andrew, It sounds like Firefox is passing the entire URI to vncviewer.exe, so that it will then try to connect to a host called vnc://whatever, rather than just to whatever. Regards, -- Wez @ RealVNC Ltd -Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-

RE: Indirect connection works better

2009-05-18 Thread Philip Herlihy
Thanks to John, and James, for very interesting pointers. I'll experiment on the affected systems and see what I can demonstrate, but I'd like some feedback on these ideas first, if anyone has any! As I understand it, MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) describes the size of the largest packet to

RE: Indirect connection works better

2009-05-18 Thread Philip Herlihy
Something else I found: Try this in a command prompt (XP SP1+): Netsh firewall show icmpsetting Netsh firewall set icmpsetting, REM doesn't change anything, just shows options. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875357 Philip Herlihy -Original Message- From: Philip Herlihy