Re: Blackberry vnc

2009-07-15 Thread Sean Kamath
On Jul 14, 2009, at 2:17 AM, jsethi...@gmail.com wrote: Where can I get the beta vnc enterprise viewer for blackberyy?? Heh. I saw the announcement about the iPhone/iPop Touch version, and I'd love to give that a go. . . Sean ___ VNC-List

Re: VNC keyboard/mouse problem

2008-12-23 Thread Sean Kamath
On Dec 23, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Levin, Gary Marc wrote: I have tried to reproduce the problem with Eclipse running with the cygwin X server as my display and the problem does not manifest itself. This suggests that while Eclipse is tripping the problem, there is some fault in Xvnc. Is

Re: Shortcut switch to add listening client?

2008-10-26 Thread Sean Kamath
On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Cody Bennett wrote: I work for a campus helpdesk where we use VNC to remotely control user machines. At the moment, a user must drill into the sub-menu, find the run vnc server shortcut and then add the client (me, running in listening mode). Here's the ideal

The key-repeat problem on xorg VNC-enabled server

2008-10-09 Thread Sean Kamath
Hi. We're looking at a site license for Enterprise VNC. One thing I was hoping was fixed was the wacky key-repeat problem, which is only present when you add the vnc.so module to the xorg.conf file on Linux. So, with these combinations: RHEL WS4 U4, xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.13.36,

Re: Using VNC (More) Securely...

2008-08-10 Thread Sean Kamath
On Aug 9, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Peter Bunn wrote: But at this point, it has become difficult for my father to remember to reliably click an icon to start the VNC server, so... Hmm. That does make it hard. I set up a listening VNC viewer, and had my mother start the server and open the

Re: vnc setup like gotomypc.com?

2007-08-06 Thread Sean Kamath
On Aug 5, 2007, at 7:39 AM, Shobuz99 wrote: Sean, What if one of Bruce's family members also has a router? Doesn't matter. Think of routers as diodes: They let traffic *out*, but not in. When you *initiate* the connection, that forces the direction of the connection. So if the family

Re: vnc setup like gotomypc.com?

2007-08-05 Thread Sean Kamath
On Aug 4, 2007, at 7:31 AM, Bruce Pennypacker wrote: Hi all, As the techie in my extended family I end up fielding a lot of support calls from different family members. I was thinking it'd be nice to be able to remotely access their machines from home if the need arises and in general

Re: VNC on Solaris - connection refused

2007-03-21 Thread Sean Kamath
On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Glenn wrote: /home/glenn/.vnc/xstartup: xsetroot: not found /home/glenn/.vnc/xstartup: xterm: not found /home/glenn/.vnc/xstartup: twm: not found So your VNC server fired up, tried to run the above, and instead of twm not exiting, xstartup exited, and your

Re: Multi-user sessions using VNC on Mac

2007-01-25 Thread Sean Kamath
On Jan 24, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Jesse Heady wrote: Is it possible to set up VNC on Mac and allow simultaneous private sessions for users? Is this only possible if each VNC user has their own system login and VNC is run as a system service? Ultimately we would like to have our Mac available as a

Re: VNC Server - MacOS 9

2006-10-29 Thread Sean Kamath
On Oct 28, 2006, at 1:08 AM, Sean Kamath wrote: Anyway, here's some links: http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/vineos9/index.html http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/vnc/download.html Googling the filename, I found this: http://www.mirrors.ausmac.net/AusMac/auslist.cgi? location

Re: VNC Server - MacOS 9

2006-10-28 Thread Sean Kamath
On Oct 27, 2006, at 7:08 AM, Steve Quarrella wrote: To remote into those as well. I have googled VNC server for OS 9 but the links seem to be coming up empty. Dan...which files are you trying to find? I played around with a VNC server or two under MacOS 9 this last summer, and probably

Re: excessive memory use in VNC server on Solaris

2006-10-17 Thread Sean Kamath
On Oct 6, 2006, at 12:15 PM, 77 D'~x 77 wrote: Steve Waltner wrote: PS: Is there any way to configure the vnc-list mailing list server to add [vnc-list] to the subject of e-mails? That would make sorting e-mails a lot easier. Not that I know of -- it's bugged me too. However, if you can

Re: Linux - Mac OS X connection problems

2006-05-08 Thread Sean Kamath
the evils of Apple's RFB compatibility. In anycase, the issue still stands: Which server(s) are running on which machines? Sean On May 7, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Sean Kamath wrote: [In a message on Sun, 07 May 2006 17:15:22 BST, Phil Dobbin wrote:] Hi, all. I'm trying to set up a Debian box running

Re: Re[2]: vncviewer Win - vncserver Mac

2006-03-05 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:23:01 GMT, James Weatherall wrote:] Zuzka, I'm afraid that there is no VNC server supplied with Mac OS X, so I'm not sure what it is that you're using, but it definitely isn't a standard VNC Server. The closest thing I can think of is Apple Remote Desktop,

Re: vnc over ssh with non conventional ports

2005-10-28 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:05:35 -0300, Fernando Sfeir wrote:] Jerry Westrick wrote: The way I do it is a little diferent, but IMHO better. as root Edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config Add following lines: Host Some.Where.In.Internet Port 9 This is exactly that i need. Thank you so

Re: vnc over ssh with non conventional ports

2005-10-28 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:47:51 +0200, Jerry Westrick wrote:] On Saturday 29 October 2005 00:04, Sean Kamath wrote: Add following lines: Host Some.Where.In.Internet Port 9 Sorry to disagree sean but: adding the above 2 lines will cahnge ssh for everyone, yes, but only

Re: Optimization recommendations under Mac OS X

2005-10-12 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 08:22:07 EDT, Michael T. Davis wrote:] I'm using VNC Viewer v4.1.1 under WinXP Pro to talk to a Mac OS X v10.3.9 system via the Apple Remote Desktop v2.2 client (server, really). What tweaks can I make to the Mac OS X system to minimize the lag caused by

Re: TightVNC, XVnc Solaris 9

2005-06-30 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:38:23 EDT, DL Hanna wrote:] Greetings, I have searched the list/web and have found some posts regarding the same problem (on Solaris 8) but found no solution. Has anyone figured out how to solve the following error in Solaris 9? ld.so.1: Xvnc: fatal:

Re: VNCThing - Mac OS 9

2005-06-22 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:56:54 PDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:] Greetings... I have a need for a VNC viewer for Mac OS 9. Browsing the various FAQs, I see that VNCThing would fit the bill, but 1) www.webthing.net appears to be up for sale, and doing a STFW turns up plenty of hits on

Re: vnc on solaris 8, can't get rid of grey x session

2005-06-14 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:40:52 CDT, pheonix1t wrote:] I had another box where i left the twm and ran vncserver sessions. Then I tried changing the vncserver script to be like above, but it still gives me the old grey X session. ... I think I'm pretty close to getting dtsession to

Re: MAC OS 9.x VNC and WinXP.....

2005-06-02 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:53:46 EDT, Edwards, Tom M wrote:] Anyone tried using a VNC app on a MAC OS9.x machine talking to a WinXP machine? We have a pretty good interface between our G4 single CPU 733MHz OS9.2.2 machines and a Dell PIII 400 Win2K system using RealVNC on the PC side

Re: Vnc server on SunRay system

2005-06-01 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:57:41 BST, James Weatherall wrote:] Better still, you could get vnc.so loaded into the SunRay's X servers if they support loadable modules? They do, but it's undocumented, and no one seems to know what the trick is. I had Solaris 8 source (well, still have

Re: Arbitrary Port use - simi solved.

2005-05-06 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Fri, 06 May 2005 10:50:36 CDT, Tony wrote:] Now, my problem comes in that I want to use STRCM to manage the install/uninstall and it still only supports port offsets. I used to run into this all the time forwarding X sessions. Some apps unknowingly support negative offsets.

Re: VNC connection lost when initiating telnet session quits

2005-04-29 Thread Sean Kamath
I have a vague recollection of process leader problems with telnet (I too use SSH, as it is the only reasonable way to go these days. ;-)). Try this: prompt $SHELL prompt vncserver prompt exit prompt ps -ef | grep Xvnc prompt ptree Xvnc-pid Make sure that Xvnc has all the appropriate processes

Re: VNC Security

2005-04-20 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:14:50 EDT, Steve Bostedor wrote:] I am wondering why expose VNC over the internet in the first place, really. Exactly what I said. VNC should *NOT* be exposed to the internet. It's my opinion that VNC is really only good for LAN's. Why not use VPN to sec

Re: VNC Security

2005-04-19 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:53:09 EDT, William Hooper wrote:] Steve Bostedor wrote: [snip] I've scoured the web out of this curiosity, looking for a tool to put VNC packets together into something useful for a hacker. There's nothing. Nada. Fifth hit on Google for: vnc capture

Re: What good is VNC's GPL?

2005-04-07 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:05:40 +0200, Yann Renard wrote:] Grant McDorman wrote: Actually, they could claim that that's for compatibility. Look at what was done for PearPC/CherryOS to see a more reliable method: search the binary for strings (messages, diagnostics, function

Re: What good is VNC's GPL?

2005-04-03 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:15:08 CDT, Tim Meador wrote:] Actually, I'd like to see an anwer to this myself. There was no attempt to clarify the use of GPL code, just a friggin' It ain't none of your business, so shut up! Well, it IS our business. The GPL license and enforcement of

Re: Root GUI access?

2005-03-31 Thread Sean Kamath
I gotta say, after 20 years of supporting X-based environments, that putting *ANYTHING* into shell startup files that diddles X settings is a mistake. You'll regret it. And someday, when you forget, and have a friend logged into your box, they'll tweak you by inverting your screen (yeah, I've

Re: terminal access only (gray window)

2005-03-29 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:47:23 +0100, James Weatherall wrote:] Damjam, As previously stated, this is a bug in Gnome that prevents multiple Gnome sessions to co-exist on the same machine for the same user. If I recall correctly, it's a little worse than that. The Gnome people are

Re: Can 'I Disconnect Monitor?

2005-03-22 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:32:40 EST, Erik Soderquist wrote:] I can't say for certain, but I think that may be the mac intelligently turning off the display functions when it detects the monitor disconnected. I've had almost no experience with macs though, this is just a guess on my

Re: Xmodmap keyboard remapping in VNC 4.1

2005-03-12 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Sat, 12 Mar 2005 01:50:57 PST, Boris Andreev wrote:] Then looking up on the Internet, I found this http://mercea.net/~exmh/html/exmh-users/2001-02/msg00016.html where the use of xev and xkeycaps is prescribed in order to see the corres pondence between keysyms and keycodes.

Re: VNC 4.0 on Soalris 8 with inetd

2005-03-11 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:25:05 GMT, Alasdair Ferro wrote:] John, I've tried CDE, Openwindows and Failsafe logins, and they all do the same! Bear in mind that I'm using XDMP to do the login, so my ~/.vnc/xstartup script never gets read. Oh. So you're running Xvnc, and telling it

Re: VNC 4.0 on Soalris 8 with inetd

2005-03-10 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:37:25 GMT, Alasdair Ferro wrote:] Since this appears to be a font problem, please can you let me know which fonts VNC needs access to on Solaris, and I'll try only specifying them. Cheers, I never saw a response to this. So I thought I'd kick in my

Re: META keypress wrapped by SHIFT keypress/release on Solaris

2005-02-07 Thread Sean Kamath
[In a message on Mon, 07 Feb 2005 10:12:00 GMT, Tristan Richardson wrote:] The keyboard layout used by Xvnc 4 is taken from a fairly standard Linux keyboard layout, in which meta is the shifted version of alt. Hence Xvnc is generating a shifted alt when it gets sent a meta. Aiehgh. I've

META keypress wrapped by SHIFT keypress/release on Solaris

2005-02-04 Thread Sean Kamath
Hi. On my Solaris 9 box, running the 4.0 server, my META keypress seems to be wrapped by a weird keypress/keyrelease. Here's the xev output from JUST a META keypress: KeyPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x1e1, root 0x26, subw 0x0, time 3778192747, (64,97), root:(730,536),