RE: Connection closes

2004-01-07 Thread T. Valent
James, Thanks for your answer. What reasons can it have, if clients close the connection to the server, within 1-5 seconds after a successful password verification? Sometimes I can even move the mouse for a couple of seconds, then the client dies with no error message. Could be a dodgy

RE: How does RealVNC know when to make a screen capture

2004-01-07 Thread Castelier Serge (RBFM/ASQ1) *
Thank you for your response Corne. If you make screen captures of the entire screen at small intervalls ( say 50ms), you'll use a lot of processor time on a Win32 PC. VNC apparently doesn't need a lot of processor time. That's why I gather VNC only makes screen captures of the screen areas

Re: single desktop per user with vncserver through inetd

2004-01-07 Thread Corné Beerse
Mike Fedyk wrote: Hi, I like the feature where I can have my users login through one port and then login to their user with [xgk]dm, but last time I tried it I was able to make several instances of desktops, but not login to the same desktop again from another vncviewer (say, from another host).

Re: Installing VNC 3.3.7 on a Unix workstation

2004-01-07 Thread Corné Beerse
Sergio Rodriguez wrote: I have downloaded VNC 3.3.7 for Unix, and I have unzipped and untarred the files. But I can't understand the Unix installation instructions within the readme files. Could someone please send me some step by step instructions on how to install VNC 3.3.7 on a unix

Re: How does RealVNC know when to make a screen capture

2004-01-07 Thread Corné Beerse
Castelier Serge (RBFM/ASQ1) * wrote: Thank you for your response Corne. If you make screen captures of the entire screen at small intervalls ( say 50ms), you'll use a lot of processor time on a Win32 PC. I don't know. The major cpu usage is in the compression. VNC apparently doesn't need a lot

RE: Win2k to Win2k connection freezes/crashes

2004-01-07 Thread James Weatherall
Mike, This sounds like a problem with your network setup at the viewer end (assuming it is the viewer computer that is encountering problems?) Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. --- Is there anything I can do to stop the connection from crashing and from reseting the servers IP address? Thanks

RE: Connection closes

2004-01-07 Thread James Weatherall
When you say that this occurs with 2 out of 10 hosts only, do you mean that two machines have this behaviour when you run the viewer on them, or when you run the server on them? Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. --- Could be a dodgy firewall, dodgy network connection, or just that the VNC server has a very

RE: Windows 2003

2004-01-07 Thread James Weatherall
Ryan, I'd be very surprised if that was the cause, but it can sometimes be hard to tell with Windows. If possible, clearing the security log and then trying making some connections would be a helpful diagnostic. Do you get any WinVNC4 error messages logged in the Applications Event Log when it

RE: VNC 4.0b4 bugs..

2004-01-07 Thread James Weatherall
Jerry, Any further feedback on this? Did it turn out to be a window manager issue as previously suggested? Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry McBride Sent: 21 December 2003 00:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Problem with Right Shift and Terminal Server Client

2004-01-07 Thread James Weatherall
Greg, The uMapType change you suggest can't possibly work - uMapType=0 maps from virtual keycode to scancode, while uMapType=3 maps from scancode to virtual keycode. MapVirtualKey is used in the VNC 4 codebase purely to fake a scancode to associate with keyboard events, so that DOS prompts and

RE: Problems with VNC and USB mouse

2004-01-07 Thread James Weatherall
Guys, Are you running any special mouse-handling software on the problem machines? Do you see the problem if you take the same mouse and try it with a different machine? Is the mouse described at the viewer or server machine? Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Get user approval before taking control, for each connection

2004-01-07 Thread
Hi everyone, When I take control on a Win98/2000/NT PC using the VNC, I want that the user will give me his approval to do so, for each connection. I am a new user in VNC and I read the documentation carefully. I didn't see any details about such an option. Does any one know if it's possible

Re: Strange TT font problem with KDE

2004-01-07 Thread Mattias Dahlberg
Wed Dec 31 11:12:01 2003 Andrew Brown wrote: I am running VNCserver on a linux (Suse 8.2) box and controlling it with VNCviewer on windows 200. That works very well. There are truetype fonts on the linux box which display fine under KDE 3.1.1 in the normal X server. But they won't display

RE: Get user approval before taking control, for each connection

2004-01-07 Thread James Weatherall
David, That depends on which version you are using. VNC 3.3.7 includes the QueryConnect option, which allows the user to be prompted to accept connections. VNC 4.0 Beta 4 does not yet implement QueryConnect, but the next VNC 4.0 release will. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. -Original

Re: Get user approval before taking control, for each connection

2004-01-07 Thread William Hooper
cec bcrepi said: Hi everyone, When I take control on a Win98/2000/NT PC using the VNC, I want that the user will give me his approval to do so, for each connection. http://www.realvnc.com/winvnc.html#11 Look at QuerySetting and AuthHosts specifically. -- William Hooper

Re: single desktop per user with vncserver through inetd

2004-01-07 Thread William Hooper
Corni Beerse said: Mike Fedyk wrote: Hi, I like the feature where I can have my users login through one port and then login to their user with [xgk]dm, but last time I tried it I was able to make several instances of desktops, but not login to the same desktop again from another

RE: Connection closes

2004-01-07 Thread James Weatherall
Are you sure that you are running service-mode servers on the two problem machines, rather than connecting to app-mode instances? Have you restarted the problem machines and seen the problem continue? Does either machine have a screen-saver enabled? Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. -Original

RE: Connection closes

2004-01-07 Thread T. Valent
When you say that this occurs with 2 out of 10 hosts only, do you mean that two machines have this behaviour when you run the viewer on them, or when you run the server on them? When I run the server on them. All 10 hosts have the VNC-server started as service. On two of them, the problem (the

RE: Connection closes

2004-01-07 Thread T. Valent
Are you sure that you are running service-mode servers on the two problem machines, rather than connecting to app-mode instances? Yes. Have you restarted the problem machines and seen the problem continue? Sure. The problem occurs since I first installed the service on these machines and

RE Dialup Internet VNC Use

2004-01-07 Thread Higgins, Jim
Can the VNC application be used for dial-up internet access to a remote PC with the Server loaded on the remote? Jim Higgins Senior Systems Engineer ADC-Broadband Infrastructure and Access Group

RE: RE Dialup Internet VNC Use

2004-01-07 Thread James Weatherall
The current VNC releases are designed to operate over TCP/IP. If you can set up a TCP/IP connection between the two machines, via dial-up (perhaps using PPP, for example) then you should be able to use VNC over the resulting connection. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. -Original Message-

Microsoft L2TP/IPSec VPN Client

2004-01-07 Thread Pugrox
Hi, Me again. I am also trying to install this software to try and help my Mom. If anyone knows how to explain the installation in plain English I'd sure appreciate it. Thanks allot. Sharon ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself

RE: Microsoft L2TP/IPSec VPN Client

2004-01-07 Thread Lange, Bob (Tax Office)
What I just sent you should help you quite a bit. A link to get the software and print screen images in Microsoft Word you can print out that takes you step by step. Bob -Original Message- From: Pugrox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 12:14 PM To: [EMAIL

HELP INSTALLING REALNVC SOFTWARE

2004-01-07 Thread Pugrox
Hi, I'm an at home personal computer user trying to help my almost blind mother with her computer problems and she is in a city 50 miles away. I was hoping to install this software and be able to help her from my home computer because I can't always get to her place when she needs help. Can

vnc internet login problems

2004-01-07 Thread Coho, Chris
I have just installed vncServer on my home pc and i'm trying to access it from my laptop at work but i'm having some problems, hopefully someone can give me some insight. I've tried connecting with the web page and with the viewer but neither have been successfull. I can connect fine when I'm

RE: HELP INSTALLING REALNVC SOFTWARE

2004-01-07 Thread James Weatherall
Sharon, You need to install VNC Server on her machine, and VNC Viewer on yours. You then need to find her IP address (it will be displayed by the VNC Server tray icon) and specify that to the VNC Viewer in order to connect to her machine. You will also need to specify a password for the VNC

Optimizing VNC framerate?

2004-01-07 Thread Tom Lemcke
Hello, I would like to introduce myself, I am Tom, I'm a college student and I'm looking into VNC as a possible remote access program to use on my new server project in which my server will be running Linux and the viewers will be running some kind of Windows. Anyways, I am trying to figure out

Can't Restart or Shutdown Windows Using VNC - Was Working Earlier

2004-01-07 Thread CORUM, M E [AG/1000]
I originally had VNC 3.3.3 and it worked perfectly for almost a year. My server machine is a Windows/2000 machine and my client machine is a Windows/XP Pro machine. In the past I have been able to do the ctrl/alt/del from the menu and then do a restart of the Windows/2000 machine from my XP

Re: Can't Restart or Shutdown Windows Using VNC - Was Working Earlier

2004-01-07 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:35:59PM -0600, CORUM, M E [AG/1000] wrote: Very suddenly (and as far as I know, without any change occurring on the machine) this feature stopped working. Now, when I try to do a restart or even a logoff so that I could re-logon as a different user, my VNC client

RE: Can't Restart or Shutdown Windows Using VNC - Was Working Ear lier

2004-01-07 Thread CORUM, M E [AG/1000]
I'm not sure what running chkdsk would do for me. I can log on or off or restart or shutdown at the keyboard when I am physically there. ReadlVNC is indeed running as a service. That is the way I install it. I can't get the logout to work either. So, what is the next thing I should try.

Re: Can't Restart or Shutdown Windows Using VNC - Was Working Ear lier

2004-01-07 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:21:02PM -0600, CORUM, M E [AG/1000] wrote: I'm not sure what running chkdsk would do for me. I can log on or off or restart or shutdown at the keyboard when I am physically there. ReadlVNC is indeed running as a service. That is the way I install it. I can't

How to trasnport audio?

2004-01-07 Thread Arani Sinha
Hello, When I use VNC, I am wondering whether there is a way I can transport audio as well. Basically, I want to play a multi-media file on Real Player on the server and access it from the viewer. Thanks, Arani ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Can't Restart or Shutdown Windows Using VNC - Was Working Earlier

2004-01-07 Thread William Hooper
CORUM, M E [AG/1000] said: I thought I'd switch over to realVNC 3.3.7. After doing that on both machines, I still get the same bad result. I can't reboot or logoff/logon that remote machine no matter what I try. I went through the archives and saw some vague references to this problem but no

3.3.7 Xvnc MUCH SLOWER than 3.3.3 (SPARC/Solaris 7)

2004-01-07 Thread Tim Wood
VNC is great technology I've used over 3 years, so I was very surprised to discover that dropping in Xvnc 3.3.7 to replace 3.3.3 resulted in a major increase in latency to move windows (in outline mode). My client is Win2000 using the 3.3.7 viewer. Whereas the 3.3.3 server lets me drag

Various issues about copy/paste between Xvnc and Win2K vncviewer

2004-01-07 Thread Lionel Ulmer
Hi all, Just wondering if anyone had the same issues than me : - with Xvnc 3.3.x and either vncviewer 3.3.x or 4.0b4, copy paste works fine except for copy / paste from GTK 1.x / 2.x apps. Basically, if I select something in an xterm, I can 'Ctrl-V' it in Windows. If I do the same in

RE: Can't Restart or Shutdown Windows Using VNC - Was Working Ear lier

2004-01-07 Thread CORUM, M E [AG/1000]
Thanks, it must have been related to that issue. Even though I had been running 3.3.3 solely as a service for the last year successfully, it must have somehow gotten started manually as a process. I de-installed 3.3.3 and rebooted and everything seems fine now. Mike Corum -Original

RE: 3.3.7 Xvnc MUCH SLOWER than 3.3.3 (SPARC/Solaris 7)

2004-01-07 Thread CORUM, M E [AG/1000]
Interesting. For me, (on Windows) it was just the opposite. Version 3.3.3 was medium slow and I'm finding 3.3.7 to be pretty snappy, even fast at times. Mike Corum -Original Message- From: Tim Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:34 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: Various issues about copy/paste between Xvnc and Win2K vncviewer

2004-01-07 Thread James Weatherall
Lionel, You should use Xvnc 4b4 and remember to run vncconfig in the Xvnc session in order for the clipboard to work. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 22:49, Lionel Ulmer wrote: Hi all, Just wondering if anyone had the same issues than me : - with Xvnc 3.3.x and either

Re: i see windows apps but dos app black

2004-01-07 Thread Newunited1
In a message dated 1/4/2004 3:42:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, Newunited1 writes: I can see the other computer's desktop and can open windows files but cannot when I open or try to view an open dos program I get a black screen. I can see the curser moving on the screen of the computer I want to

Can't build TightVNC Server 1.2.9 - linker error

2004-01-07 Thread Andrey
Hello, I am trying to compile TightVNC 1.2.9 in MSVC++ 6.0 The project file winvnc.dsp didn't open(MSVC couldn't recognize the project file), so i've made an empty project and added all *.c, *.cpp and *.h and libraries: libjpeg.lib, zlib.lib and omnithread.lib It compiles fine but i get link

Re: Unable to build TightVnc - linker error

2004-01-07 Thread Andrey
Well, the roblem seems to be resolved, i finally found how to compile original winvnc.dsp - it was in unix format and that's why MSVC didn't recognize it as project file. -Original Message- From: Andrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 22:52:40 -0500