Doug, When you see that the try icon says "not accepting incoming connections", have you actually tried connecting, or used netstat to check whether port 5900 is in use? There is a known bug with the VNC 4.0 tray icon that causes it to show out-of-date state in some situations.
Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > Hi. I am using version 4.0 and am connecting through a > linksys router. I am port forwarding 5900 thru 5923 (I use > 5914 typically) to my home machine running win2k pro. I have > set up vnc as a service and it does work, but I am having an > interesting problem. Occasionally, I will notice I cant > connect to my home cpu from work and when I go home, I > realize that vnc has turned itself off - I hover over the vnc > icon and it says that's its "not accepting incoming > connections"! Here is the strange part... If I go into the > settings and mess around... say change the port # to > something else then change it back to what it was, and THEN > hover over the vnc icon, it says the ip of my machine > (192.168.1.106) which is correct, and it allows me to connect > as normal. > > It seems to do this at random, and the vnc serice can stay up > for days accepting connections, or in a hour it may stop > accepting connections. I've been using vnc for years and have > searched the archives/FAQs and didn't see a related problem. > Does anyone have an idea about what's going on? Thanks, Doug > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
