> I have installed VNC as a service on a Windows 98 > box. However , it still will not fire up until AFTER > someone logs on to the machine. seems to work fine for me - you run it as a service by adding a string value to the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices]; you might also want to set a global password (and a few options) in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ORL\WinVNC3\Default]. The downside is - because systray is not yet running, you won't get a white VNC icon no matter what you try.
an example .reg file is below (obviously, edit to suit; you can get a valid password string from [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\WinVNC3] on any machine you have set a password on; the password in the example is "password") ================ REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ORL\WinVNC3\Default] "Password"=hex:db,d8,3c,fd,72,7a,14,58 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices] "WinVNC"="\"C:\\path.to\\WINVNC.EXE\" -service" ================ I must admit - I cheated and patched out the bit of the code that checks HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\WinVNC3 so that the default password is always used on my systems. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
