On 04/29/2010 05:30 AM, Antoine Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using the -PasswordFile=somefile switch quite happily on *nix, but > when I try to use it on Windows: > winvnc4.exe -PasswordFile=password.txt > It simply will not work at all... > I had problems with the Windows client last year (before I found out > in the source that the password file had to be exactly 8 characters > long to work - unlike the *nix clients), so I've tried all sorts of > combinations... no go. > Before I delve into the source, can anyone confirm this is meant to > work as I expect it should? > ie: > echo "12345678" > password.txt ^echo^echo -n
DOH. Got bitten by this 8 character limit twice now. Just because you use the same file at both ends does not mean this is going to work! Even though you would think it should! Antoine > winvnc4.exe -PasswordFile=password.txt > vncviewer -PasswordFile=password.txt win32host:5900 > > Thanks > Antoine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
