First try was a success (DOS) and the 'fix' for 9.0 work just fine. Thanks
for the tip.
-ken
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Christopher Schulte wrote:
> At 09:35 AM 4/9/00 +0000, you wrote:
> >i found a funny thing about pcANYWHERE.
> >when we use pcANYWHERE remote control client to connect the
> >host running pcANYWHERE, at first the statu bar appears
> >"pcANYWHERE connecting..." ,then the login window will
> >appear;
> >but if we press "Cancel" before the login window appears,
> >the pcANYWHERE service will be crashed. We can't connect
> >the host via pcANYWHERE client any longer.
>
> I had to repeat the 'connect, cancel, wait, reconnect, cancel, wait,
> reconnect' process a few times to successfully crash the service. The
> first time I waited a few seconds to see if it would restart itself.... and
> it did! I was able to connect again. But when I did the same DoS again,
> it never came back.
>
> >if host running pcANYWHERE 9.0, We can restore the service
> >by the following steps:
> >telnet host 5631
> >appers:
> >}
> >Please press <Enter>...
> >
> >then press Enter
> >We can connect pcANYWHERE now :)
>
> Not on my end:
>
> [schulte@unix-box schulte]$ telnet win.box.with.pca9 5631
> Trying win.box.with.pca9...
> Connected to win.box.with.pca9.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> I was unable to restart the service via this method. Since this machine
> was local to me, it's not an issue. However, this could present some
> obvious problems with my various co-located boxes.......
>
> I assume symantec has been contacted?
>
>
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