What I don't get is the discussion if it's allowed or not to watch without the other side knowing. It's just a matter of decency. I don't even _want_ to watch without the other side knowing.
Do we want to hide the icon because of the ability to disconnect or because we don't want the other side to know we're watching? Personally I'd suggest the following: make the icon invissible for the user so he/she can't play with it. The user doesn't have to know that there's an ability to take over the machine. As soon as a connection starts make the icon at the server blink in the tray so the user knows there's a session in progress. Since I'm not a programmer, just an ordinary (oh, well...;-) user, I'm not able to implement this. Maybe someone else can...? Regards, Lion de Jong -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Wilkins [mailto:wilkinsd@;dartford-technology-college.kent.sch.uk] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hiding the VNC Tray Icon David Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Wed Oct 9 13:20:01 2002 >> Hi All, >> There is a Registry key to allow you to disable the VNC icon >> from showing, information is at http://www.sysworksoft.net/support/vnctips.html#1 we need >> to do this to stop users from disconnecting us mid-session and from getting >> information about their IP address so readily. <snip> > The cleanest way to disable the "kill connections" functionality is to take it off the menu! > use ResHacker on the binary to strip out the menu options you don't want the users to have. > of course, if the real reason you don't want the icon to be there is so the users don't know you > are connected, you can do that too - the "connected" black icon is an icon resource that can > be overwritten to be the same as the white "unconnected" icon. This is frowned upon though - > and may be actually illegal in some countries where watching employees without their > knowledge is in breach of the law (the UK is one such). I work in a school, and wish to implement VNC as soon as possible, mainly to make my life easier with its remote administration capabilities. I too wish to hide the tray icon, to prevent pupils from closing the program. We have an old version of NetOp installed on most machines (but in the rebadged form of RM Tutor). Surely its not illegal in schools too to watch pupils without their knowledge? Mainly its to protect them, making sure they aren't accessing porn or in chat rooms, and if they are, those sites can then be blocked. RM Tutor lets teachers watch pupils without their knowledge, and has no tray icon etc. The link above only applies to NT. The majority of our clients are Win98 with about a quarter running W2K Pro. So, if anyone can send me the relevant reg keys etc I need to change to hide the tray icon I'd be very grateful. Thanks, Dan W. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
