RE: Is there a design document for RFB 4.001
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Matt Dufrasne Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 9:42 PM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Is there a design document for RFB 4.001 I can see this http://www.realvnc.com/docs/rfbproto.pdfdocument for 3.8, however the server is now reporting RFB 004.001\n and I would like to see if there is an equivalent document for that version. Apologies if this is the wrong medium. I've been trying to use VncSharp but it will only work on 3.8, 3.7 and 3.3, I figured I would take a shot at contributing. Although if someone knows of an API out there that would let me log on and just grab the current frame and dump it out to a file, that would save me a ton of time. Thanks! Matt: According to https://www.realvnc.com/products/vnc/documentation/5.2/ The latest RFB spec is an IETF RFC (6143); U can get it from http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6143. The former link mistakenly Identifies the RFC as an IEEE document. Thx, Phil Long ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
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-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Mike Miller Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 2:21 PM To: Phil Seakins Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Phil Seakins wrote: On 19 June 2014 11:57, Szilard Albert szil...@dayborogeo.com wrote: I have been using a vnc session to log in into my office network. For years. Now suddenly my dedicated channel wont work. Any suggestions on how to solve this issue? Yeah. Install TeamViewer. It's free and it works great. VNC works great and it's free software while TeamViewer is proprietary. Mike Albert: Perhaps a better question to ask would be, What changed between the time VNC worked and the time it stopped working? Did a proxy at work change? Was a port blocked? If U're not the network administrator, this kind of thing can happen with no notice to employees or contractors, because the Corporate-sanctioned software is usually tested and/or re-configured behind the scenes. When a package of which they are unaware like VNC is installed, they won't test for it, and U'll be hosed. Thx, Phil Long ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: VNC viewer fullscreen does not cover Windows taskbar
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Todd Strader Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:53 PM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: VNC viewer fullscreen does not cover Windows taskbar snip Today I switched to a different Windows machine and when I run the fullscreen viewer (same version), the Windows taskbar refuses to go away. snip Thanks, Todd Todd: Perhaps the problem is actually Windows taskbar behavior. Most people just leave it alone, but its behavior can be configured. Maybe it has been set to always be on top, or maybe it's locked and that somehow affects it. Thx, Phil Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: VNC RFB Protocol Question
-Original Message- From: Christopher Woods (CM) [mailto:X@x] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 11:11 AM To: Long, Phillip GOSS Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: VNC RFB Protocol Question On 19/02/2013 15:09, Long, Phillip GOSS wrote: -Original Message- From: Long, Phillip GOSS Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 12:49 PM To: 'vnc-list@realvnc.com' Subject: VNC RFB Protocol Question snip Thanks to all who answered; I appreciate the help! Eventually connect OK? Chris Chris: No connection yet, but I've downloaded the 5.0.4 Viewer, and will be trying it either later this week or next week. I'll post what happens then. Thx, Phil Long Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: VNC RFB Protocol Question
-Original Message- From: Long, Phillip GOSS Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 12:49 PM To: 'vnc-list@realvnc.com' Subject: VNC RFB Protocol Question Hello! Is version 4.1.3 of the free edition of RealVNC incompatible with the Enterprise edition (4.6.1, I believe)? We have a customer running the Enterprise edition on a machine which we would like to be able to reach, but we keep getting the 10060 error message. I have never tried to connect to the Enterprise edition before, so I didn't expect this. Has the protocol changed, or is the connection just being refused? Thx, Phil Long Thanks to all who answered; I appreciate the help! Thx, Phil Long Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: VNC is freaking me out!
-Original Message- From: Weary Trav Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 3:44 AM Hello everyone, snip seek for help: Last night I accessed my computer though VNC, after using it, I closed the ios app and went to sleep, and today morning when I started using my office computer, I accidentally pressed ctrl+v instead of ctrl+c while trying to copy some text and what I noticed was that a message I had sent on my phone a few days ago appeared on screen! snip Thanks in advance and regards, Weary Traveller ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list Weary: VNC synchronizes the copy and paste buffers between the client and the server; thus, the email U saw is probably in the clipboard of your iPhone. Thx, tanstaafl Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: vnc server running in a citrix connection
-Original Message- From: Adam Hobaugh [mailto:vnc-list@realvnc.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 9:39 AM To: Long, Phillip GOSS Subject: Re: vnc server running in a citrix connection Thank you for your response. The way that they have it set up is on the remote desktop she gets with citrix, the first thing she must do is start a vnc server on that desktop so they can use the veiwer to see the remote desktop. If the remote desktop has a modified version of the server on it. Would it be able to somehow see her desktop on her local machine? I am not sure if it is possible for the server to hop onto the citrix connection and see her laptops desktop as well as the remote one. //adam -- Adam: Assuming that the VNC server at your friend's workplace is compiled from standard code, she need not worry that her employer can snip Adam: Not having used Citrix, I can't say for sure, but I'll venture a guess that the Citrix RDP client works much like others, in that it creates local windows and controls controlled by the remote server, instead of serving up all remote screen data like VNC does. The VNC server on the Citrix-connected remote desktop could very well be modified to snoop on the Citrix RDP data stream, but since that data could at best only show what your friend sees in the Citrix RDP client (i.e., the remote desktop), it wouldn't buy them anything. The Citrix RDP client is proprietary, and I think it unlikely that her employer would be willing to pay for a modified version that could snoop her desktop (or even that Citrix would be willing to do so). Besides the probable high price of any such modification, it's even more unlikely that Citrix would be willing to keep upgrading the customized version along with the standard one. I have been in that situation before; the vendor modified their OS for us, but refused to keep it current, which meant that the machine on which it ran soon became a dinosaur. We were willing to accept that because of our special circumstances, but very few software customers would be willing to pay that price. HTH! Thx, Phil Long Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Ubuntu with Xvnc to :1 with no window manager at :0
-Original Message- From: Mike Miller [mailto:mbmil...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mike Miller Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 11:35 AM To: Long, Phillip GOSS Cc: VNC List Subject: RE: Ubuntu with Xvnc to :1 with no window manager at :0 On Mon, 14 May 2012, Long, Phillip GOSS wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Mike Miller wrote: snip Thanks, Phillip. On my system, it seems that /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc calls /etc/X11/Xsession and there is no ~/.xinitrc file. Suppose I make it so that /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc doesn't start X11. I guess I would then see a console window after booting. Can I just run vncserver :1, say, from there, then run vncviewer from that console? It just seems like that would fail because I don't have a graphical interface. How can vncviewer run without a DISPLAY? By the way, I have been running Xvnc on :1 for years without any failures (that's RealVNC Free). It ran once for something like 500 days on Solaris. It's really the same on Ubuntu -- no failures -- but I happen to have the machine in a place where the power sometimes goes out and that has limited me to only about 200 days of uninterrupted uptime. Mike Mike: Once again, I have to emphasize that I am *not* an expert, nor have I ever used Xvnc, so I'm just going by what I have ready over the years; unfortunately, I can't tell U off-hand where I happened to read these things, other than to say that it was most likely on the RealVNC website. I poked around on the RealVNC website a bit, and on the page http://kb.realvnc.com/questions/10/How+do+I+run+multiple+screens%7B47%7D sessions+of+VNC%3F it says that there is an X server built into the vncserver. It also shows one case in which U want to have more than one X server (running one or more copies of vncserver). In fact, much to my surprise, it also shows that U can attach vncserver to an already-existing X server. I didn't know U could do that! vncserver is an X server, with its own display; U work with it by setting the DISPLAY environment variable to the appropriate value (:1, :2.0, :0.1, etc.), just like U do with X11. It will work with your default window manager, or U can use a different one (changed in ~/.vnc/.something-or-other). If U modify xinitrc, U would change it to launch vncserver instead of X; as a general rule, I try Really Hard not to change system-wide stuff, but in this case, I'm not sure how to implement Xvnc in user-mode. If my understanding is correct, your X server would then be running on display :0.0. Since this would be a system-wide change, all users on the system would experience this change. So long as they interact with the X server using their window manager (which everybody does), they probably wouldn't notice any change (any differences would probably mean that one X server or the other had a bug, or was making an alternate assumption about something). Running vncserver as your primary X server would have the advantage of allowing anybody who connected your machine to see your desktop, just like it works on MSWindows; of course, working like MS Windows is not always seen as an advantage! Thx, Phil Long Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Ubuntu with Xvnc to :1 with no window manager at :0
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Mike Miller Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 11:03 AM To: VNC List Subject: Re: Ubuntu with Xvnc to :1 with no window manager at :0 snip So if anyone here knows about this... On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Mike Miller wrote: Is it possible to boot Ubuntu, not load an X window manager and still run Xvnc on :1 for remote access? If I'm actually sitting at the machine, I have to load a window manager to be able to see vncviewer, I assume? Is that how it works? What I've been doing is using IceWM in Xvnc and exclusively accessing the system through that, but I have Gnome running all the time on :0, mostly doing nothing but taking up space. Mike Thanks. Mike Mike: I use Gnome, not Xvnc, on my desktop, and I'm by no means an expert, but my understanding is that Xvnc is an X server, and in general, U should only have one of those running. My guess is that Xvnc is your X server, and U're running IceWM as your window manager on :1. Probably, the X startup/login script (~/.xinitrc?) is launching Gnome (on the first available screen, perhaps?), and U need to remove or comment out those commands to conserve resources. U would also be able to run IceWM on :0 instead of :1. HTH! Thx, Phil Long Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: vnc server running in a citrix connection
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-bounces@realvnc. com] On Behalf Of me Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 6:04 PM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: vnc server running in a citrix connection I have a friend of mine that works for a work from home company and she has a concern. I believe I know the answer but she is concerned enough snip server, that they are able to see her laptops desktop as well. Thank you //adam Adam: Assuming that the VNC server at your friend's workplace is compiled from standard code, she need not worry that her employer can see her desktop. That said, the code is open-source, and there is nothing to prevent them from modifying the source of vncviewer, which can already act as a server, to allow the employer to snoop on her. Were I in her position and worried about it, I would get a copy of the standard vncviewer and use that instead. If the employer distributes the standard version, they wouldn't notice (unless they check timestamps or something should they ever get access to my computer); since it would be the standard distribution, they wouldn't be able to snoop. if they complained that I wasn't using the code they gave me, OTOH, that would pretty much confirm that what they gave me wasn't standard, and they *were* snooping on my desktop. My two cents worth; HTH! Thx, Phil Long Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Newbie Support - Automating File Transfer(s)
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Tom Hall - TMH Design Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 11:52 AM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Newbie Support - Automating File Transfer(s) snip What I need is a way to automate a file upload from their business computer to my server every night. Does VNC offer this type of functionality? If so which product do I purchase? Thanks so much. -- Tom Hall / TMH Design 707 237 7412 t...@tmhdesign.com ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list Tom: What U need is a scheduled job that copies this file from your customers's computers to your server. VNC is meant for visualizing the desktop of a remote computer, not file transfer. There are some remote desktop visualization packages out there that will do file transfer, but there are usually better options (sftp, ftp through an SSL tunnel, etc.) which U can set up on a customer-by-customer basis. Since there are only five or so variations, U could write an install script that automates installation of an upload script, with email notification upon failure (customer changed default folder, etc.). The upload script can run using Scheduled Tasks on WinXP, or cron using Linux (and possibly Mac). Thx, Phil Long Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: High csrss.exe utilisation on XP with legacy software
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-bounces@realvnc. com] On Behalf Of Robert William Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 5:04 PM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: High csrss.exe utilisation on XP with legacy software I'm serving RealVNC Free Edition 4.1 from an XP32 SP3 box. When I run legacy Turbo Pascal programs from the client the csrss.exe utilisation jumps up to 100% on every keystroke (or even if the application is put in foreground) for several seconds and sometimes as long as a minute or 2. This stalls things and makes the session unuseable. The Turbo Pascal programs don't generate much screen traffic as it is mostly file shuffling so I don't understand why csrss is getting so much utilisation. Anyone understand this and/or have a fix or workaround? It's a big job to redo the legacy stuff. (Clients are XP or W7 machines and all demonstrate the problem). Thanks. Robert: Most DOS programs consume 100% of CPU cycles in a Windows box. I'm guessing this happens because DOS had no built-in process-scheduling or process priority, but I don't really know for sure. U might want to look for old TSRs that could interrupt the CPU and execute a halt instruction. I recall that there was one called Rain, or something like that. Again, this is only a guess. Thx, P. Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Need help
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Lasitha Appuhami Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 1:18 AM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Need help Hi Is it possible to send only a specified window, via vnc. I'm ready to do slight modifications if required but don't know from where to start. your support is highly appreciated. Thank you in advance Lasitha ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list Lasitha: For just a single window, why not use RDP or Xwindows? Thx, Phil Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: VNC server stops responding after a few days
Chris: Again, I'm not a network guy, so YMMV. My experience has been that the computer with the static IP address in the DHCP range of the router will run with no immediate problems, but the DHCP server will eventually revoke the lease (because nobody asks for it to be renewed), then assign it to another computer. Duplicate IP addresses are never fun to debug! Thx, Phil Long -Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-bounces@realvnc. com] On Behalf Of Christopher Woods (CustomMade) Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 5:56 PM To: Long, Phillip GOSS; vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: RE: VNC server stops responding after a few days Is your static IP address in the range of the router's DHCP addresses? That won't work, because the computer, knowing that it has a static IP, won't request a lease renewal, and after some maximum amount of time, the DHCP server will try to force one. What will happen in this case depends greatly on the software and OS the computer is running, and on the behavior of the router. I'm not a network guy, but I do know that unless your router is more sophisticated than the average small-office router, static IP addresses *MUST* be outside any range of DHCP addresses of your router. FWIW, I've experienced pretty much set-and-forget behaviour from soho / half-decent routers where you can assign a static IP and they'll respect the assignation (or in the cleverer routers, you can fix a static lease). My previous home Speedtouch TG585v7 could happily do this, as can the D-Link at work. (Tomato which I use at home on a WRT54GL these days just ... Works.) Surely if a machine has a fixed static IP, it doesn't even enter into discussion with the network's DHCP server to request a lease? Just the usual broadcast traffic... Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: VNC server stops responding after a few days
James: Is your static IP address in the range of the router's DHCP addresses? That won't work, because the computer, knowing that it has a static IP, won't request a lease renewal, and after some maximum amount of time, the DHCP server will try to force one. What will happen in this case depends greatly on the software and OS the computer is running, and on the behavior of the router. I'm not a network guy, but I do know that unless your router is more sophisticated than the average small-office router, static IP addresses *MUST* be outside any range of DHCP addresses of your router. Thx, Phil Long -Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of James Wheaton Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 12:44 PM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: VNC server stops responding after a few days The computer will work in other ways but not with VNC. It's set as static IP, so the router should be giving the same IP after the lease times out. James Wheaton FloSource, Inc. Phone: 765.342.1360 Fax: 765.342.1361 Visit us on the web: www.flosource.com http://www.flosource.com On 11/14/2011 12:07 PM, Paul Dunn wrote: On 14/11/2011 16:41, James Wheaton wrote: Hi everyone, We've got a problem with RealVNC server which stops working after a few days. A computer reboot is required to get it to work again. The error message upon connecting is: unable to connect to host. 2 computers do this on the regular and they have Windows XP installed. Is this a known problem? Any idea what could be causing it? DNS lease timeout? ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Disconnect when switching users XP
I believe UltraVNC only works on MSWindows. -Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Dale Eshelman Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:45 AM To: Constantin Kaplinsky Cc: B. Scott Smith; Seth Callen; vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: Disconnect when switching users XP Great point. Is there a difference between UltraVNC and TightVNC? The server and viewer are free right? Which web site to use to obtain them? I am thinking of switching from RealVNC on PCs. Assume those will connect with anyone still using RealVNC? On the Macs we use VineServer from Redstone and Chicken of the VNC from Geekspiff. Any suggested free alternates? Dale- On Mar 12, 2011, at 07:25 AM, Constantin Kaplinsky wrote: Hello, B. Scott Smith wrote: The free version does not support User Switching (FUS) in XP. Nor does it support RDP. Nor does it support Vista. Nor does it support Windows 7. Try UltraVNC. TightVNC 2.0 supports that as well. -- Best Regards, Constantin - TightVNC Web site:http://www.tightvnc.com/ Follow TightVNC on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tightvnc - ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list Dale Eshelman eshelm...@gmail.com MonaVie (Distr ID 1316953) http://www.monavie.com/Web/US/en/product_overview.dhtml Kaching Kaching, Inc. (KCKC.OB) http://www.mykachingkaching.com/daleeshelman The closer I get to the pain of glass in Windoz, the farther I can see and I see a Mac on the horizon. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Disconnect when switching users XP
Dale: We use UltraVNC on our Windows machines, and it's free as far as I know (I'm not involved in licensing and that kind of noise). I have had better luck with the UVNC server than with the Real one, but the vncviewer works about the same. RealVNC maintains the protocol, and when UVNC, TightVNC, etc., want to create some new kind of packet, they apply to RealVNC for a number, and AFAIK, RealVNC gladly hands it out. I'm guessing that UVNC was written by guys more familiar with MSWindows (only because it's not on other platforms, not because of code quality; I haven't really compared the codebases). I think the protocol is designed so that unknown packet types are ignore/dropped, so that a viewer and a server can always talk to one another, provided that they're both using the same *version* of the protocol. That's the beauty of RealVNC maintaining the protocol for everybody; all the various flavors can all talk with one another (again, if they use the same version). If U're having trouble with a viewer and a server from different packages not communicating, it could be because they're not both using the same version of the protocol. Thx, Phil Long From: Dale Eshelman [mailto:eshelm...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:09 AM To: Long, Phillip GOSS Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: Disconnect when switching users XP Thanks, On the Windows OS would one be better to use free UltaVNC server and client than Real? What is the advantage of UltraVNC? Then on Mac OS I would stick with my Vine Server and Chicken of the VNC (Real VNC based). Does UltraVNC play nice with the Vine Server / Chicken of the VNC on the Mac OS if I switch on the Windows OS side? Dale- On Mar 15, 2011, at 08:06 AM, Long, Phillip GOSS wrote: I believe UltraVNC only works on MSWindows. -Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.co m] On Behalf Of Dale Eshelman Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 10:45 AM To: Constantin Kaplinsky Cc: B. Scott Smith; Seth Callen; vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: Disconnect when switching users XP Great point. Is there a difference between UltraVNC and TightVNC? The server and viewer are free right? Which web site to use to obtain them? I am thinking of switching from RealVNC on PCs. Assume those will connect with anyone still using RealVNC? On the Macs we use VineServer from Redstone and Chicken of the VNC from Geekspiff. Any suggested free alternates? Dale- On Mar 12, 2011, at 07:25 AM, Constantin Kaplinsky wrote: Hello, B. Scott Smith wrote: The free version does not support User Switching (FUS) in XP. Nor does it support RDP. Nor does it support Vista. Nor does it support Windows 7. Try UltraVNC. TightVNC 2.0 supports that as well. -- Best Regards, Constantin - TightVNC Web site:http://www.tightvnc.com/ Follow TightVNC on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tightvnc - ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list Dale Eshelman eshelm...@gmail.com MonaVie (Distr ID 1316953) http://www.monavie.com/Web/US/en/product_overview.dhtml Kaching Kaching, Inc. (KCKC.OB) http://www.mykachingkaching.com/daleeshelman The closer I get to the pain of glass in Windoz, the farther I can see and I see a Mac on the horizon. Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Need to move my mouse to refresh VNC session
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Marty Piorkowski Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 7:57 PM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Need to move my mouse to refresh VNC session Hi, During a VNC session, when I type something in an X-term window, nothing appears until I move my mouse a little. Moving the mouse is required to see what has transpired on the VNC screen. Any thoughts on to what this might be? Thanks, Marty Marty: Do U happen to be using Cygwin xterms with a 'multiwindow' Xserver on a Windows machine? I use Cygwin tools on my MSWindows machines, and use all the defaults for startxwin.exe to start the Xserver, which starts up in multiwindow mode. I used to use 'fullscreen' mode, in which the Xserver never had any update problem (and still doesn't, when I can get it running), but fullscreen mode seems not to be supported by startxwin.exe any longer (I haven't checked the source code yet, though). When started using the older bash script, the Xserver doesn't start up reliably (I think that's why the maintainer switched to an executable), so I don't use fullscreen mode any more. In multiwindow mode, all the X-based tools often seem to need a keystroke or a mouse wiggle to update when they first gain focus. I'm not sure if this is due to X resources, the Xserver itself, or the Cygwin port of the X packages, but it's a place to start looking. Thx, Phil Long Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Mac enterprise server is slower than windows enterprise server
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Mr. B Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 2:55 PM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Mac enterprise server is slower than windows enterprise server I have two machines on a wired network. A win xp machine and a mac book pro. Both systems have vnc enterprise servers and viewers version 4.5.x installed with the servers configured to operate in service mode. snip/ What should I check or adjust to help increase the performance of the mac vnc server, as this level of performance is nearly unusable. Thanks! Vince ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list Vince: Are U running anti-spyware software on the WinXP machine? If so, it may be blocking (or perhaps even deliberately slowing) the VNC packets. U might want to try to configure it to pass the VNC ports untouched. Thx, Phil Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Newbie question: vncserver running on port :25, need to attach Perl script to this when it executes
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.co m] On Behalf Of Rob Newman Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 3:13 PM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Newbie question: vncserver running on port :25,need to attach Perl script to this when it executes Hi there VNC gurus, [snip] So I have a fully fledged working desktop on localhost:25. Now to what I really want to do I have a Perl script that I normally run from the X11 command line. This outputs much information, then opens up three Ghostscript windows, creates some postscript image files, then converts them to pdf files using the Ghostscript command ps2pdf. I need this script to run via cron without me being logged in, hence why I thought Xvnc would be solution. However, I cannot seem to figure [snip] Does anyone have advice for a newbie? I am stuck. Thanks in advance. - Rob Rob: Why not just copy the file to the system from which U're running vncviewer and run your perl script and gs there? The data being exchanged between the viewer and the server is RFB protocol, not PostScript or PDF ... unless U *want* to perl the RFB data, of course. Thx, Phil Long Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: frequent interruptions when connected over modem
Dieter: My guess for the reason that those FTP clients don't drop the connection is that they automagically restore it when dropped. If U try an FTP transfer using the command-line FTP client in Windows, does the connection stay 'on,' or does it drop? That FTP client is as simple as it gets, and is not likely to attempt to re-connect a dropped session. OTOH, in my experience, most not-so-simple FTP clients *will* attempt to re-connect. Thx, Phil Long -Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Dieter Blaas Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2009 8:56 AM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: RE: frequent interruptions when connected over modem Hi Christopher, thanks for the hints. I have indeed also tried SSH tunnelling with even worse results (connection drops every several seconds). The interesting point is that FTPing works without drops (I downloaded a file from the same PC over 40 minutes). This made me think that it must have to do with RealVNC. It also does not seem to be the 3G connection that drops it looks like if the VNC connection were somewhat shaky or unstable when compared to FTP. I'll try the constant ping though and let you know the results Dieter On 8 Sep 2009 at 13:32, Christopher Woods wrote: From: Christopher Woods christop...@custommade.org.uk To: dieter.bl...@univie.ac.at, vnc- l...@realvnc.com Subject:RE: frequent interruptions when connected over modem Date sent: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:32:06 +0100 Organization: CustomMade Solutions when connecting to my PC over RealVNC via a modem (USB-stick from the provider Orange in Austria) I experience many interruptions. I have to reconnect almost every few minutes. This is the intrinsic to RealVNC because I do not get any interruptions when downloading large files from the same PC over hours by using the Filezilla Server and CoreFTP light. Is there anything I could do? Sounds like your 3G connection is dropping, and taking VNC with it. This could be due to network policy or poor coverage. Have you considered establishing an SSH tunnel to an external server, then VNCing through that? It's a little more involved, but not too difficult. Bitvise Tunnelier is an excellent free application for managing SSH connections (including setting up tunnels) and you don't require a licence for individual use (although there's a 30 day trial period anyway regardless of licence qualification). The more frequent SSH traffic may force the connection to stay up if you're in a borderline reception area or your network enforces a disconnect policy after traffic dips below a threshold. Alternatively, have you tried doing something like establishing a constant ping to a server whilst connected, to see if the regular traffic keeps the connection alive? ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list Dieter Blaas, Max F. Perutz Laboratories Medical University of Vienna, Inst. Med. Biochem., Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr Gasse 9/3, A-1030 Vienna, Austria, Tel: 0043 1 4277 61630, Fax: 0043 1 4277 9616, e-mail: dieter.bl...@meduniwien.ac.at ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: can't log on using vista
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of jim Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:29 AM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: can't log on using vista could not log onto XP sserver from Vista any solutions to problem? ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list need more info Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Alternatives To VNC... (Backup Remote Access)
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Peter Bunn Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 9:18 AM To: VNC Mailing List Subject: Alternatives To VNC... (Backup Remote Access) Hello: [snip] Can anyone suggest an alternate, secure, reliable remote connection method? [snip] Though my Dad has broadband, I'm still on dialup, with few other options at present. VNC works quite acceptably with dialup (slow, but survivable), and I'd like to find something else that was usable over dialup (PCNow is slow as death). Suggestions? [snip] Peter B. - Peter: In my line of work, I often need to dial up to view the desktop of remote machines (WinNT to WinXPe) on our equipment. We use both VNC and pcAnywhere, but I actually prefer to use TELNET, because it's text- based and uses about 0.1% of the bandwidth used by desktop viewers. That said, more often than not, I still need to see the desktop, as do U when U or your Dad want to see what the other sees. U have to pay for pcAnywhere, but I think it's worth it as a backup method. Phil Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Xvnc + XDMCP
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-ad...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-ad...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of sbremal Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:41 PM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: RE: Xvnc + XDMCP As far as I understood when Xvnc (or the vncserver wrapper) is started, an X server and a VNC server is started in the same process. Then this I'm afraid I didn't explain myself very well; sorry about that. I think a better way for me to put it might be that I believe that Xvnc *is* an Xserver, so there is no reason for it to contact *another* Xserver. I think (I haven't tried this yet) that if U want the vncviewer to display what U see on the console, U have to start Xvncserver *instead* of xdm. Only the Enterprise version of uses native authentication; the Free version doesn't even use encryption, which is why U'll read about people sending the RFB packets through an SSH tunnel (see http://www.realvnc.com/vnc/features.html). If U use Xvncserver as your Xserver, however, authentication by VNC doesn't matter, because your system will do the authentication as the Xserver. Authentication is not encryption, however, so U should still send the connection through a tunnel, or it will be visible to anybody who takes the trouble to look. Of course, YMMV; as I warned in my previous post, I'm an X *user*, not a guru. :) I use x86-64 Debian at home and Cygwin X on WinXP at work, but I don't get a lot of time to play with my Linux box. The only thing that I have done so far is to fix the screen resolutions available (so that I'm not stuck with 640x480) by copying xorg.conf from Knoppix; I couldn't even tell U why that works, because I haven't had time to investigate. Just spent too many hours to give up now... The workaround now is to (1) log in to the server with Putty, (2) start the Xvnc manually, (3) exit from Putty, (4) start the VNC viewer on the phone. Ideally (1), (2) and (3) could be saved if the login would be handled by Xvnc through XDM (and Xvnc started from inetd). So I gather that U have done this before? Cheers, Balazs Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Xvnc + XDMCP
-Original Message- From: vnc-list-ad...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-ad...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Balazs Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:05 AM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: RE: Xvnc + XDMCP Is there a more appropriate list to address this question to? Thanks. B. From: sbre...@hotmail.com To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Xvnc + XDMCP Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:32:27 + Hi All, Is there anyone who managed recently to start Xvnc with XDMCP on FreeBSD? I have been struggling with this for a few days already. After switching xdm to debug mode, I noticed that Xvnc does not contact xdm at all! Then obviuosly only the grey screen opens with the mouse cursor, no loging window. Xvnc seems to completely ignore the -query localhost argument, why? (Starting X with -query localhost works fine, I can see the XDMCP messages exchanged with xdm.) Any idea? (Just upgraded to vnc-4.1.3_1 but no avail.) Cheers, Balazs Balazs: Well, this may not be the right forum, since it's an X question, but we're all here to help one another; I'm no X whiz, but here's my guess ... Is your FreeBSD machine running as an X display being managed by XDMCP? IIRC, this protocol implies that the machine on which xdm is running is the X server, usually running with very limited resources. I believe that many, if not most, of the programs that run on an xdm-managed X server reside elsewhere; that's why they came up with a different protocol. This is not to say that U couldn't do it by running xdm instead of a full-blown server (which is what Xvnc is), but what U want to do is run the viewer application (xvncviewer), not the server, and connect back to your xdm-managed X server. HTH and isn't too far off the mark (like I said, I'm no X guru!). Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: VNC remote access when screen saver is active
Don't take my word for it! :) http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=xorg-x11-xwin%2Fxorg-x11 -xwin-6.8.99.901-1grep=X for the X-server; http://cygwin.com/setup.exe for the base packages. The Cygwin X-server won't do multi-user without some hacks, though, and then only on WinXP/Pro or a more-capable version of Vista. The former (and probably the latter, but only if it's a capable-enough version of Vista) has a program named 'runas.exe,' which will let U impersonate another user if U have the account and password. If U set up runas.exe in a shortcut in the Startup folder, U may be able to launch the X-server (in full-screen mode) and have a startup script (.bashrc, .profile, .bash_profile, etc.) that lets it start an X-server. I haven't done any of this yet, because our customers are rarely willing to let us have down time to fix their multi-million-dollar broken machines if they can limp along, let alone play around with possible tools. It's hardly as capable as an X-server on a UNIX or Linux box, but it would do in a pinch. U'll need to load the base packaqes, because just like the code in /bin/ on a Linux box, there are certain utilities that almost all other programs depend upon, but if U have to use MSWindows, this is the way to go. As I said, however, nobody has yet ported xvnc to Cygwin. I will probably do it at some point, but as I'm very busy with my day job, it will definitely be a while. Thx, Phil Long -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Seak, Teng-Fong Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 7:02 AM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: VNC remote access when screen saver is active You mean using Cygwin you might be able to emulate X-Win even in a workstation version of Windows (ie multi-sessions under different users)? I really doubt about it... I need to see in order to believe. On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Long, Phillip GOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sort of, but YMMV. There is a port of Linux tools to the Windows platform call Cygwin. I use it extensively, and one of the things I have considered doing is porting xvnc to it (the ports include X). It would be nice to have a different desktop than our full-screen application is using, because our customers can't always shut down for us to 'take over' using pcAnywhere or VNC. Unfortunately, what U want your team to see is probably Windows-native GUI applications, so this wouldn't work unless what they need to see are console applications, or Cygwin-ported X applications. Besides, porting xvnc is no small project; that's why I haven't done it yet! ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: VNC remote access when screen saver is active
Ed Van Gennip wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Van Gennip Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:43 PM To: Seak, Teng-Fong Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VNC remote access when screen saver is active HTH, thak you for your response. You answered my question with the answer I suspect. I was hoping there is a way to 'see' application screens, not the screen the operating system is currently displaying. Do you know if there is such a product? Ed. [snip] Sort of, but YMMV. There is a port of Linux tools to the Windows platform call Cygwin. I use it extensively, and one of the things I have considered doing is porting xvnc to it (the ports include X). It would be nice to have a different desktop than our full-screen application is using, because our customers can't always shut down for us to 'take over' using pcAnywhere or VNC. Unfortunately, what U want your team to see is probably Windows-native GUI applications, so this wouldn't work unless what they need to see are console applications, or Cygwin-ported X applications. Besides, porting xvnc is no small project; that's why I haven't done it yet! Thx, Phil Long Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: winvnc4 commandline sequence/syntax
Dave wrote: Thanks for everyone's contributions. I looked at the various suggestions, claims and facts and experimented a bit to discover the following: [ snip ] While I will write the scripts to modifying HKLM to configure the vnc4 service, I'd expected something a bit more usable from the command line for VNC. However, I would still find it instructive to know the root cause of these symptoms and what is required to utilize command-line options when establishing a vnc4 service. Thanks to all. Dave Were I in your shoes, I would find a program that enables me to make changes to the Registry from the command line. I use Cygwin programs, which is a port of many Linux packages to the Windows platform (using DLLs and, to a lesser extent, the Registry), and one of its 'fictions' is that there is a /proc filesystem; the Registry is available under /proc. It is quite simple to write a BASH, CSH, or KSH script (all available with Cygwin) to modify the Registry (not that I have /any/ idea of what key to modify!). Just a thought. Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: Please Need some help ...Cascading screens...
Jack Marcus wrote: Hi, hoping somebody can help me. I am attempting to connect using Ultra VNC to a VNC machine. Both machines are running WIN XP sp2. When I connect from the Ultra VNC machine, I get prompted for the password, I enter it and then I get a continuous showing of cascading screens. Does anybody have any idea how to correct this. Thanks Jack I seem to recall an earlier post in which somebody had connected to his own machine, which opened a window displaying the window opened to display a window containg the window open to display ... U get the picture. Perhaps this has something to do with using RealVNC with Ultra VNC, too. --Phil Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: VNCSCAN: UltraVNC with Vista Support
Yury Averkiev wrote: Also worth mentioning that they made a very controversial decision to starting using an .ini file instead of windows registry, which in my opinion was not very bright idea. I really hope RealVNC won't choose this path. And the UltraVNC's new special Vista helper service is a proprietary one, so there is nothing much Real/TightVNC people could look at. Kindest regards, Yury Averkiev SmartCode Solutions - Network Management Without Barriers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Bostedor Sent: Thursday, 17 May, 2007 9:11 PM To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: VNCSCAN: UltraVNC with Vista Support The UltraVNC team has been working on a release of their VNC client/server for Windows Vista and have finally released their first beta. As far as I can tell, they are the first free flavor of VNC to release something that works in Vista as a service. The forum thread for this beta release is here: http://tinyurl.com/24kuv5 Hopefully, the authors of RealVNC and TightVNC can look at their progress and get something similar done with their open source versions of VNC. Thank you, Steve Bostedor http://www.vncscan.com VNC Management Made Simple Using a .ini file is not a _standard_ way to set preferences in Windows, but by decoupling the application from the Registry, it is less likely to fall prey to an inadvertent Registry change (and we all know that That Never Happens, right?). My gut feeling is that if the Registry is currently being used, it should continue to be used (fewer coding changes), but any new code is, IMHO, better released without using the Registry. Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
RE: LZMA compression
Matt Campbell wrote: Hello: Has anyone considered devising a new RFB encoding which uses LZMA compression? I think it would be worthwhile, since LZMA typically has a much better compression ratio than zlib or bzip2. Also, if the LZMA dictionary is reasonably large, I'm guessing that the compression ratio will improve significantly after the first few framebuffer updates. This is only a conjecture at this point, so I was wondering if anyone has pursued this idea further. Matt According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZMA), although LZMA is open-source (LGPL), [w]ide use of Microsoft Windows-specific features are deeply buried in the source code and it has taken a while for a Unix-compatible version to appear. This would limit portability to other platforms (Linux and Mac OS-X, among others), so until recently, LZMA was probably not an option for RealVNC. Are U offering to add it? :) Goss ... Innovation for Business NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment(s) may contain confidential and proprietary information of Goss International Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and may be legally privileged. This e-mail is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the addressee, dissemination, copying or other use of this e-mail or any of its content is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient please inform the sender immediately and destroy the e-mail and any copies. All liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. No contract may be construed by this e-mail. ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
