Re: help!!!!!

2002-05-29 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 29 May 2002, Donnie O. wrote: The funny thing is that when I access the Sparc5 system directly from the Solaris8 box through an XWindow session with the display set to 0 then everything is fine (everything appears). When I try and access the Solaris8 box using VNC from home

Re: Actual bandwidth usage

2002-07-05 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote: Now that my high speed service provider has started to charge based on the number of bits transacted over my line, I've gotten stingy about bandwidth (by which I mean byte count, not bits per second). I never realized how costly it was to use a

Re: How to get the version of a vnc server on Solaris

2002-07-16 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Alec Hothan wrote: Is there a way to know the version of a vncserver binary? If you start a vnc session, look in $HOME/.vnc/*.log -- the first line will say the version. There's probably a better way! Mike ___ VNC-List mailing

Re: [despammed] VNC is hackable (was VPN and VNC)

2002-08-28 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Wes Groleau wrote: Mike Miller wrote: difficult for someone to get into my box by a VNC exploit. Am I wrong? Wouldn't they have to sniff packets and decrypt to get the password? I suppose it can be done, but I don't know that anyone is doing it. Unless you have

Re: Nautilus with VNC

2002-09-18 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Technology Listserves wrote: I have had VNC up and running for a few days now, and everything works great, except one problem. I can't use a graphical file managing software like Nautilus. VNCserver is running on a RedHat 7.3 system. VCNclient is running on a Windows

Re: ctrl-c, backspace

2002-09-27 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, fred bapst wrote: Is it normal that Ctrl-C, backspace or delete keys have a different meaning through VNC ? I'm using the server on solaris, and tried solaris+Win viewers, without being able to send a decent Ctrl-C or backspace to my xterm... I'm using Solaris 8 and an

RE: ctrl-c, backspace

2002-09-27 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Beerse, Corni wrote: ctrlc is one of the keys in the alttab and ctrlaltdelete range: They are captured by the local machine. Ctrl-c is not captured by the Windows machines on which I've used vncviewer (NT 4.0, Win2K Pro, Win98) -- it works fine for me. btw: What did

Re:VNC version 3.3.4 - Cursor updates changed?

2002-09-27 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Mas LIARFO wrote: The little point that runs after the arrow makes it impossible to forget that you are not actually using the local machine, even over a fast LAN. But on a slow connection, having the little point is very helpful. You know where your cursor *will* be and

Re:VNC version 3.3.4 - Cursor updates changed?

2002-09-27 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The little point that runs after the arrow makes it impossible to forget that you are not actually using the local machine, even over a fast LAN. But on a slow connection, having the little point is very helpful. You know where your

Re: Subject: RE: putty command line gets no refresh??

2002-10-24 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Hans-Cees Speel wrote: I see the same issue with Putty. It never really bugged me because I don't use Putty in a VNC window that often (since VNC is not encrypted, what's the point). I use an ssh-tunnel for putty, so it does matter. Do you mean that you use an ssh

Re: Xvnc crash with Solaris and Color depth 8

2002-10-31 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Tristan Richardson wrote: OK I've spent several painful hours tracking this down (I'm not surprised the other guy gave up - it's a #define hell :-). It turns out to be a bug in the X server cfb code where there's a special optimised case which only gets used on sparc

Re: Where is Jeff.Koenig + mail rules

2002-11-07 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Erik Parker wrote: It sucks, but it was the list configuration at fault, not him. I don't like vacation programs at all, but a lot of people use them, and some companies require you to use them. In the list software it specifically says 'Set Reply to: List or poster' and

A VNC server is already running as :10, but it isn't!

2002-12-03 Thread Mike Miller
I'm still using old Xvnc version 3.3, running on Solaris 8. I set up VNC for a student and had him start it up on :10. It prompted for password, which he entered, then I had him run vncserver :10 again to create the VNC session. It refused saying A VNC server is already running as :10, but it

RE: A VNC server is already running as :10, but it isn't!

2002-12-03 Thread Mike Miller
Professor Division of Epidemiology University of Minnesota http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mike Miller I'm still using old Xvnc version 3.3, running on Solaris 8. I set up VNC for a student

verifying my Email address??

2002-12-03 Thread Mike Miller
What the heck is this about?? Everyone who writes to the VNC list receives one of these messages? --Mike -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:54:27 -0500 From: Automatic Email Verifyer To: Mike Miller Subject: Please verify your Email address

RE: A VNC server is already running as :10, but it isn't!

2002-12-04 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, David Howe wrote: Possibly the .pid file (that vncserver checks to see if a instance is already running) is still in the user's ~/.vnc? No. It's perplexing. There is no sign of a pid file and vncserver -kill :10 won't work because it can't find the pid! I don't know why

RE: A VNC server is already running as :10, but it isn't!

2002-12-05 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, David Howe wrote: Is it possible a non-vnc x-server is running on 10? or that port 5910 is in use by some other app? It looks like something is running on 6010, and that must be the problem. Thanks to Corni Beerse for pointing it out! Now to figure out what's using 6010!!

Re: vnc portnumber assignment...

2002-12-10 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Beerse, Corni wrote: and whom it may concern. Recently I peeked at the iana for the official assigned port numbers. There (http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers) I found that the port numbers as used in VNC are NOT registered for or assigned to vnc. However, since

Re: hacking

2002-12-12 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, pierre malherbaud wrote: hello, i suscribed to the list only because i have a little problem, it looks like my computer has been hacked using WinVNC. i think so because: WinVNC has been installed on my computer without my intervention [snip] I'm sure someone else will

Re: New and improved vnc tcp_wrappers patch based on Wolframs patch

2002-12-13 Thread Mike Miller
What would I have to do to use this patch with 3.3.6? Will it work? Also, how exactly is a patch applied? In the past, I've read through the thing, line by line, and figured out how to edit the files by hand. With a big patch, that's too much work. If it matters, I'm using Solaris 8. Best,

Re: New and improved vnc tcp_wrappers patch based on Wolframs patch

2002-12-13 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Joachim Falk wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Mike Miller wrote: Also, how exactly is a patch applied? You need the patch programm. Install the one included with Solaris (No I don't know where to find that one). Or get the GNU one. I have always tried to use the Solaris

Re: Is this an issue of posting etiquette?

2003-02-02 Thread Mike Miller
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Shing-Fat Fred Ma wrote: Here's the thing with this new way of doing the headers. I even can't tell if you've copied the list or not. It's not in any of the headers. If the header doesn't show that the message went to the list, then it didn't go to the list. You can

autocutsel (was cut-paste with VNC on linux - 2 proposed changes)

2003-02-10 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Wayne Throop wrote: I assume he's talking aobut the issue that led to autocutsel, namely, that X has at least two different ways to cut-n-paste text. There's the cutbuffer(s), and there's the selection(s). I downloaded and compiled autocutsel v0.3 on my Solaris (SPARC)

Re[2]: Automatic Encryption

2003-02-14 Thread Mike Miller
Here's a simple question: Why can't VNC server and viewer just use established SSH protocols to communicate? Incorporate OpenSSH code into the server and PuTTY (or whatever) code into the viewer. Isn't that workable? The keys wouldn't be encoded in the password, they would be handled in the

Re: Automatic Encryption

2003-02-14 Thread Mike Miller
hope the realVNC development team will consider this as a worthwhile project for someday. Mike -Original Message- From: Mike Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: vrijdag 14 februari 2003 16:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re[2]: Automatic Encryption

Re: Automatic Encryption

2003-02-14 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Illtud Daniel wrote: Mike Miller wrote: Here's a simple question: Why can't VNC server and viewer just use established SSH protocols to communicate? Incorporate OpenSSH code into the server and PuTTY (or whatever) code into the viewer. Isn't that workable

Re: Automatic Encryption

2003-02-14 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Cliff Sarginson wrote: I am going to chirp in here again. All this talk about incorporating code into vnc. What is wrong with attempting to tunnel it through ssh ? This is done in other contexts. I do that. But can I get other users to do it? I don't think so. It's

RE: Re[2]: automatic encryption

2003-02-18 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, John Swanson wrote: I think Most people here understand the limitations of this encryption, but I think a great many of us are just looking to not have passwords going out in plain text. They aren't going out in plan text even now. VNC uses a different protocol for the

Re: What is Xvnc?

2003-03-12 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, William Hooper wrote: If No, what is the advance of Xvnc in manners of size? Size isn't the point. Being able to have a persistent remote desktop is the point There are several major advantages of VNC: (1) The state is stored on the host machine. When you reconnect

Re: new Xwindows

2003-03-16 Thread Mike Miller
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, William Hooper wrote: Li Ding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem when using Xvnc on linux. When I use vncviewer from a windows machine to connect Xvnc on linux. I get a new XWindows, NOT the desktop I need to access. How can I access my linux destop?not the

Re: Certain applications not running with VNC and Gnome on Linux

2003-03-17 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Mark Ganser wrote: each student gets their own session and everything works great, except: on the RedHat 7.3 machine certain applications will not launch from a VNC session (including root) but will when the user logs on locally. For example the Printer Configuration

Re: Wish: Version Query

2003-03-18 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Steve Bostedor wrote: Ya know, it'd be cool if there was a way to connect to the VNC port on a computer, issue a command, and get back the flavor and version that is running on that computer. If anybody feels like adding new features to VNC, this would be awesome! If

RE: Wish: Version Query :VSMail mx3

2003-03-18 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Steve Bostedor wrote: Ya know, it'd be cool if there was a way to connect to the VNC port on a computer, issue a command, and get back the flavor and version that is running on that computer. If anybody feels like adding

RE: Wish: Version Query :VSMail mx2

2003-03-18 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, William Hooper wrote: I agree, security through obscurity is not security. On the other hand, reporting the version gives an attacker just another piece of information that is not needed by an authorized client. If the information is not needed, why is someone asking

Re: How Do I Save VNC Desktop Settings?

2003-06-19 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Dave T. wrote: I want to label the buttons, set screen sizes, configure two terminal windows to automatically open in each session each time I start VNC, etc. I am currently running HP-UX 11.0, if that makes a difference. Years ago--the last time I used CDE, which was on

Doing Pine from Palm via VNC to Xvnc (was Sharing single window with VNC)

2003-07-24 Thread Mike Miller
I run Pine and Xvnc on my Solaris box and would love to be able to use vncviewer on a Palm OS device to connect to the Solaris box and do my e-mail. The Palm device (Treo 300 from Handspring) gives me always-on, unlimited internet service through Sprint. The display size on the Treo is 160 x 160

RE: VNC 4.0 Beta 3

2003-07-28 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, William Hooper wrote: Is there no information on the web that lists the differences? I doubt it. What's the point, there is no competition between them. It's not that they are competing to win a prize, but every user has to make a choice. A web page designed to help

Re: constraining Xvnc displays to a user list?

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, William Hooper wrote: Some other options would be to use a script to start the VNC sessions you need on boot (there are some examples at http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/65.html ). Then you could move the vncserver script out of the path. Thanks for the link!

Re: VNC security

2003-09-14 Thread Mike Miller
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Michael Herman wrote: I would like to point out that VNC is not secure. From the realVNC FAQ: Is VNC secure? The only really secure computer is one without a network. VNC requires a password when a viewer tries to connect to a server. This password is encrypted to

Re: VNC security

2003-09-16 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Bjvrn Persson wrote: If I wanted to sniff other people's VNC traffic i'd first try to find an existing program to do this. If I couldn't find one I would: 1: use one of the existing programs that can intercept TCP sessions. Maybe I'd have to teach it how to recognize the

java and port forwarding

2003-09-25 Thread Mike Miller
If I use ssh to forward port 5801 on my local machine to port 5801 on the vncserver machine and I also forward port 5901 on my local machine to port 5901 on the vncserver machine, can I enter this URL in my browser... http://localhost:5801/ ...I see my VNC session, and it works, but is it using

Re: New 'X' proxy faster than VNC?

2003-09-26 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Bill Cassady wrote: Claimed to be faster than VNC. But it also works *with* VNC. Sounds interesting, but one thing that I *really* like about VNC is that the state is stored on the vncserver end. I can go anywhere and access the same thing. If my connection dies, vnc is

Re: 2 connections at one time

2003-09-27 Thread Mike Miller
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each is in own window. Switching between windows, check with your OS vendor. In MS Windows, use Alt-Tab and/or Alt-Shift-Tab. Very useful, but so many people don't know about it. Especially helpful when in a full-screen mode! Mike

VNCviewer download for Windows?

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Miller
Once I've installed VNC on my server, I want to be able to quickly download viewers for various OSes from wherever I am. I'm most often on Windows machines, so I'd like to be able to quickly download a Win32 VNCviewer from some web site. Where is that web site? (I found the site where I have to

vncviewer for Solaris suddenly not working

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Miller
I've been running vncviewer on Solaris to look at :1 on the localhost, but it just hangs now. Here's the info: Xvnc version 3.3.3 VNC viewer version 3.3.7 I've always used this command: vncviewer -shared -truecolour -depth 24 localhost:1 (Usually using the name of the machine instead of

Re: VNCviewer download for Windows?

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, William Hooper wrote: Mike Miller said: Once I've installed VNC on my server, I want to be able to quickly download viewers for various OSes from wherever I am. I'm most often on Windows machines, so I'd like to be able to quickly download a Win32 VNCviewer from

Re: VNCviewer download for Windows?

2003-10-29 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, William Hooper wrote: Mike Miller said: Most of the viewers are freely available and redistributable, right? So why don't we just put all of the free GPL'd binaries somewhere so that people can just grab them quickly when needed? Then when I'm on a Mac, say, I can

Re: Help with Uninstall

2003-11-23 Thread Mike Miller
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Michelle Grant wrote: Someone downloaded VNCviewer.exe without my permission. I would like to uninstall it. I have read the previous messages about uninstalling it. However, the program does not show up on my start menu, my system tray, in my control panel or in my

Re: SSH Tunnelling

2003-11-27 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Thomas Chen wrote: I got the vncviewer to work through SSH. Is there a way to set up the SSH connection so that it works for the Java viewer as well? Like, say you connect via SSH and then use java instead of vncviewer to connect. Is there a way to tunnel that through SSH

Re: SSH and VNC

2003-11-27 Thread Mike Miller
Sorry for the extra post here, but I just want to offer a little applause for Jerry's excellent ASCII diagrams. Nice work!! --Mike On Thu, 28 Nov 2003, Jerry Westrick wrote: First off, you say you can connecct to home with vnc. +-++--+ | Office |

Terminal Services v. VNC

2004-01-03 Thread Mike Miller
A friend sent me a message (not to this list), which is appended below. He claims that Windows Terminal Services will do for me what VNC does, but Terminal Services runs much faster. I'm wondering if he is correct. I think he's wrong about bmp encoding, for one, but is any of it correct? Thanks

Re: !!!DANGER!!!! Acute security risk! WAKE UP!!!!

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Miller
I am sure that people can scan networks, find VNC servers, guess passwords, etc., but this seems fairly rare. I might have seen *one* scan for port 5900 in two years of checking daily iplogs. Things might change any day now, so best to be cautious, but I don't imagine there have been a lot of

RE: !!!DANGER!!!! Acute security risk! WAKE UP!!!!

2004-02-25 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Talking about security, there's one severe bug that needs to be corrected. Months ago, someone reported that even though we could define a long password, but the effective number of letters is only 8 (eight)! I've tested with VNC 4b4

RE: !!!DANGER!!!! Acute security risk! WAKE UP!!!!

2004-02-25 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, William Hooper wrote: Seak, Teng-Fong said: Talking about security, there's one severe bug that needs to be corrected. Months ago, someone reported that even though we could define a long password, but the effective number of letters is only 8 (eight)! This

RE: !!!DANGER!!!! Acute security risk! WAKE UP!!!!

2004-02-25 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, William Hooper wrote: If one of the platforms is limited you need to make the rest of the software respect that limitation so that you can remain cross-platform. (This is about password length.) There is the server end and there is the viewer end. Why can't the servers

Re: VNC List

2004-02-27 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Leonard Tiritilli wrote: A well moderated threaded forum is far from ideal technical support but it is way ahead of the current VNC List. [snip] __ Do you Yahoo!? I don't Yahoo, but YouDo. That's one of your problems. Another possible

RE: !!!DANGER!!!! Acute security risk! WAKE UP!!!!

2004-02-27 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prevent the user from entering passwords with 9 or more characters, preferably with an alert saying VNC passwords are limited to 8 characters, sorry. A number of things have been conflated in this discussion. I doubt that the vncpasswd program on

Re: Secure VNC

2004-03-11 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, William Hooper wrote: Mike Miller said: But that page says that VNC communicates in plain text and I've been told repeatedly that it is using some sort of X protocol that is not plain text. It's not encrypted, but it isn't plain text either. This is important

Re: Secure VNC

2004-03-11 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, William Hooper wrote: In fact, the author gives the impression getting the VNC data is easier than getting plain X11 data. In other words, there is a continuum of difficulty and VNC is harder to get than is plain text (e.g., telnet). If you have the traffic you

Re: Secure VNC

2004-03-12 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Wayne Throop wrote: I didn't see anybody else mention it, but it's worth noting that the use of plaintext here is a cryptogaphic technical term, meaning the unencrypted form, as contrasted with ciphertext. The use in data exchange [] is in plaintext does not imply that

imposing security on users

2004-04-14 Thread Mike Miller
We may have discussed this before, but that seems to be true of most issues on this list! I want to be able to run Xvnc on a Linux box and allow users to connect to it, but I would prefer that they use SSH tunnels from outside the network. I see no way to force them to use SSH tunnels. If I set

Re: imposing security on users

2004-04-14 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, William Hooper wrote: Mike Miller said: I see no way to force them to use SSH tunnels. If I set up VNC for them, they can connect without the tunnel and I can't stop them. You can only allow connections from localhost. Thanks. That is a good idea. I really want

Re: imposing security on users

2004-04-14 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People have been asking for built in encryption for years, and they have yet to implement it. It's probably a really difficult job to program it. I'll tell you -- every time I say something to nearly anyone about VNC, if they've heard of it, but

Re: VNC vs. TS

2004-04-27 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Corni Beerse wrote: This message clearly shows how and where Micro$oft makes abuse and reuse of terms: The protocol that is used by VNC is called RDP. AFAIK, that's a kind of open protocol. Then M$ started those stuff they call RemoteDesktop for which they user the

Re: DoS attack VNC 4.0

2004-08-30 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed Aug 25 23:49:00 2004, b kwok wrote: Want to verify and confirm if this attack sucess by sending more than 60 connections request to VNC server on windows platforms, any fix for that? http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-08/1068.html I hope this will be fixed soon.

Re: DoS attack VNC 4.0

2004-08-31 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Ran Sasson wrote: As said numerous times before (along the years of VNC..) : http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html http://www.realvnc.com/swish-e/search/vnc-list?pos=0action=searchquery=SSH

RE: DoS attack VNC 4.0

2004-08-31 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, James Weatherall wrote: The upcoming VNC Server Enterprise Edition ( http://www.realvnc.com/products/enterprise/ ) includes protection from this and a class of similar but more advanced attacks. This protection will also be included in the next VNC Server 4 GPL release. I

Re: DoS attack VNC 4.0

2004-08-31 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, William Hooper wrote: Mike Miller said: [snip] I'm not understanding this. Take Linux for example - suppose I use SSH port forwarding, but VNC is still there on port 5901. Port 5901 is firewalled off from everything but localhost. The only way to cause the issue

Re: DoS attack VNC 4.0

2004-08-31 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, William Hooper wrote: People will choose convenience over security no matter what you do. It will be better, of course, to work SSH into the VNC product I disagree. Encryption is something best left to programs that specialize in encryption. Why try to maintain your own

RE: DoS attack VNC 4.0

2004-08-31 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, James Weatherall wrote: The DoS attack only affects VNC Server for Windows - you shouldn't therefore lose data as a consequence of an attack. There is no need to set up a firewall, only to use the LocalHost option to restrict connections to those originating from the local

copy/cut/paste between Linux Xvnc 4 and Windows

2004-10-16 Thread Mike Miller
I am running this on Red Hat Linux... Xvnc version 4.0b4 - built Sep 5 2003 13:04:00 Underlying X server release 4030, The XFree86 Project, Inc I want to be able to copy/cut/paste between Windows and the Xvnc session. How is that accomplished? I thought that running autocutsel on Linux

VNC with OpenGL on Linux?

2004-10-06 Thread Mike Miller
I'm running VNC on Linux but get errors about GLX. I found this highly- relevant post: http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2004-May/045347.html Here's my question: Is there a page that describes step-by-step how to install Xvnc on Linux so that OpenGL will work? Thanks in advance for

RE: copy/cut/paste between Linux Xvnc 4 and Windows

2004-10-18 Thread Mike Miller
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Asher, Scott wrote: Run vncconfig -nowin (or -iconic, whatever you'd prefer). See the vncconfig man page. Wow. I totally missed the boat - that's a nice change in VNC. It looks like the functionality is further enhanced with autocutsel, so now I will add both to my

VNC Server Enterprise Edition for Unix

2004-11-04 Thread Mike Miller
Is there any info on the timeline for the upcoming release of the VNC Server Enterprise Edition for Unix? Are any of you using the Enterprise Edition on Windows? Liking it? Mike ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the

Re: How to change encryption key?

2004-11-24 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Angelo Sarto wrote: You prolly really want vnc-enterprise This will allow you to tie the login to a user account and then your security will be the same as you have for login security. How is the UNIX version of Enterprise VNC coming along? I didn't see Brandon's question

Re: VNC Palm Treo

2005-01-24 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently downloaded VNC and was able to set it up and access my WinXP Pro computer using another computer, so I know it's working. Is it possible to use my Palm Treo to access my WinXP Pro computer over the internet? If so would it be possible

Re: no update without cursor movement on Xvnc

2005-02-18 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Mike Miller wrote: Only one of my users is having this problem, as far as I know. VNC only updates on cursor movement. If he types in an xterm, nothing happens until the cursor is moved. On the other hand, I think it updates *eventually* without cursor movement

gnome-session child process not killed by vncserver

2005-02-19 Thread Mike Miller
On Red Hat Linux running Xvnc version 4.0b4, starting gnome-session as follows... #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -nowin exec autocutsel /usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x51+78+25 -ls -T [EMAIL PROTECTED] exec gnome-session ...we had a problem where the gnome-session

Pass special keys directly to server?

2005-03-02 Thread Mike Miller
Is the Pass special keys directly to server functionality of VNCviewer not available when the client is running Windows 98? Using the same viewer on Windows 2000 and Windows 98, I find that it only works correctly on Windows 2000. Is this how it works, or am I doing something wrong? Mike --

Synergy (was multimonitor support)

2005-03-08 Thread Mike Miller
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, James Weatherall wrote: VNC Viewer already includes support for this (broken in 4.1 but will be fixed in the 4.1.1 release!). VNC Server supports either remoting the entire desktop or an individual monitor. Has anyone compared Synergy with VNC for use with multiple

black screen upon connection

2005-03-11 Thread Mike Miller
I have a VPN setup and can connect to it. When I try to use VCN viewer 4, I enter my password to connect and then I get a window that is all black. I move my mouse around and get nothing. The host is not having any troubles and can connect from computers outside their network. I am running a

RE: Contacting RealVNC

2005-03-21 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Collins, Kevin (MindWorks) [Contractor] wrote: I have to agree - I asked the same type of questions about Enterprise VNC for Unix (which costs $$!) twice and have not gotten any response... Anyone? I can only add my agreement. My interpretation is that soon does not really

RE: Contacting RealVNC

2005-03-21 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Erik Soderquist wrote: keep those emails, have a lawyer look at the license agreement, and if still no response, you at least have records of attempting to contact and acting in good faith. I'm not a lawyer, so try that at your own risk. No license agreement applies to

RE: Contacting RealVNC

2005-03-21 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Erik Soderquist wrote: huh? it was my understanding that people were using vnc, so how could it be nonexistent? We're talking about our questions about the forthcoming releases of two currently nonexistent programs: VNC Personal Edition... http://www.vnc.com/download.html

RE: Contacting RealVNC

2005-03-21 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Collins, Kevin (MindWorks) [Contractor] wrote: The original legal question had nothing to do with either of these versions of the software (directly) - it was about the legality of selling another software package for installing VNC. OK. I guess another thread got mixed

Re: What good is VNC's GPL?

2005-04-03 Thread Mike Miller
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Brian K. White wrote: Saying that they will only deal with realvnc and that they are not obligated to honor the license of public code they are using until realvnc approaches them or responds to their approaches is NOT acceptable unless they are not in fact using anything

Re: What good is VNC's GPL?

2005-04-03 Thread Mike Miller
On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, William Hooper wrote: Mike Miller wrote: RealVNC has developed an Enterprise edition that is not being distributed under the GPL. I assume that the Enterprise edition contains GPL code from the old RealVNC. I also believe that this is OK because the RealVNC team owns

Re: What good is VNC's GPL?

2005-04-07 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Mark Jacobs wrote: http://www.planetdns.net This one looks especially bad - they are receiving rewards and making money out of, what looks like, Wez's work! Where is the evidence that PlanetDNS has VNC inside? I'm interested in this issue because I'm not sure how we can

Re: What good is VNC's GPL?

2005-04-07 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Jim Brown wrote: Where is the evidence that PlanetDNS has VNC inside? http://www.planetdns.net/premstd/v2.0/onlinehelp/dialogs/mshvnc_copyright_notice.html Great. Thanks. Next question: Are they violating the GPL? Has anyone bought the product and found that it is

RE: What good is VNC's GPL?

2005-04-07 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Steve Bostedor wrote: This is all just fantasy talk, anyways. We KNOW that theirs is a modified VNC because they spell it out on their website. Who cares, I guess. It looks like everyone's doing it. Integrity and doing the right thing just doesn't matter for anything

RE: What good is VNC's GPL?

2005-04-08 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Steve Bostedor wrote: No, I downloaded the shareware version and requested to purchase the source. I was ignored. There was no copy of the GPL and no release notes of changes to the VNC source. All a violation of the GPL. Thanks Steve. Another one for the Wall of Shame.

Re: Greyweave background problems - VNC with KDE on FC3

2005-04-15 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Chris Branas wrote: I've read all through the documentation, etc. but I can't seem to fix this with the prescribed methods. I want to run vnc to connect to kde. I am running the command vncserver :10 and vnc starts. I can run Xvnc on all but :10. The reason is that port

VNC Enterprise Edition for Unix

2005-04-18 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Lou Kamenov wrote: Is there such thing as VNC Enterprise Edition for FreeBSD, theres one for Linux alright? Thanks for pointing out that the Unix Enterprise Editions (Solaris, Linux and HP/UX) are now available. If there was an announcement, I missed it. I am a little

tcp wrappers for VNC Enterprise Edition for Unix?

2005-04-25 Thread Mike Miller
In the past I have compiled against libwrap.a so that I can use tcp wrappers to block clients in certain domains. I actually block major areas like Europe, Asia and Latin America. I would like to be able to do this with VNC Enterprise Edition. Is that possible? Mike

Re: VNC Security

2005-04-25 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Andy Bruce - softwareAB wrote: I have to agree with Steve that this is, for all practical purposes, a non-existent security risk. The only things that could go wrong: a. Somebody is sniffing the packet stream while the VNC passwords are being exchanged, and, during that 20

Re: VNC Security

2005-04-25 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Mike Miller wrote: If you were using Windows he could start up another VNC desktop that you might not notice... Sorry -- I meant to say if you were using UNIX. I assume this would not be possible in Windows. Mike ___ VNC-List

Re: double posts

2005-05-03 Thread Mike Miller
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Erik Soderquist wrote: is it just me or is this list double posting everything? I believe the problem was coming from the security list that some of our messages were CC'd to. So probably (I hope) only a few of us were affected (those who were in the CC list of the repeated

Re: src.rpm/specfile, GPL violation

2005-05-16 Thread Mike Miller
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Rex Dieter wrote: Until now, I've never encountered a vendor who provided rpms who didn't either offer the src.rpm and/or specfile. If you had asked them for those files, maybe they would have given them to you. I think you told them that they *had* to give the file(s) to

RE: VNC security, and can free VNC connect to paid VNC?

2005-05-26 Thread Mike Miller
We've used the free VNC for awhile to view machines outside our office, but our IT guys are too nervous about punching through our firewall to allow others to view our machines. I think they're too cautious. Question: If we buy the VNC version that is advertised as more secure, will it

RE: VNC security, and can free VNC connect to paid VNC?

2005-05-27 Thread Mike Miller
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Erik Soderquist wrote: To be clear, the VNC viewer that uses encryption is free, but but you cannot use the older viewer. not according to realvnc's web page: http://www.realvnc.com/products/features.html according to that, the free one does not include encryption I

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