I have just started getting this problem (hanging and crashing) on 2 different client boxes (one into a Windows 2000 server, one into a Linux server - from the box running the WIn2k server, as it happens).
For me it has only started to happen since I moved to 3.3.4 but it still happens with 3.3.5. I was thinking of switching back to 3.3.3r9 with which I never seemed to have a problem. I am disappointed that you get it with 3.3.3! I have used 3.3.3 in Windows, Linux and Solaris environments with never (as far as I can recall) a problem. I do use ZoneAlarm (the free version) but that hasn't changed for ages - it is only the upgrade to 3.3.4 that seems to have provoked the problem. Rgrds Peter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Jackson Sent: 17 November 2002 00:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Windows client dies at random I'm suffering intermittant failures of my VNC viewer, which may be associated with ZoneAlarm Pro. I am connecting from a Windows XP Home Edition (SP 1) machine to a Sparc Solaris 8 box. Connection works fine and I can work in my OpenWindows desktop environment - for an indeterminant period varying from under a minute to when I'm done and shut down the client manually, sometimes well over an hour. When the client dies it just disappears, without warning. Almost always it leaves a notification box with the helpful diagnostic "Connection closed"; perhaps 10% of the time there's no notification box at all, and once or twice I have seen a somewhat more technical message (which escapes me at the moment). In the VNC server log on the Unix box it just says "Client <IP address> gone," followed by session statistics. Other details: server is Xvnc version 3.3.3. Client is TightVNC viewer version 1.2.6 - but I've tested the "real" VNC version (approximately) contemporaneous with the server and have the same failures. I am 99% certain that I did not see this problem during the two weeks or so I was running this system before installing ZoneAlarm Pro; I have fiddled with Zonealarm's settings without affecting this behavior (specific suggestions welcome). The other details of the setup are: Linksys router with firewall, cable modem (Roadrunner), Contivity VPN client (the Solaris box is behind a corporate firewall). A Windows 98 system connected to the same cable modem and running the same software (but no ZoneAlarm) has no such problems. Diagnostic questions or suggestions, before I deinstall ZoneAlarm? -- Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson It is not easy, these days, to go beyond the bounds of taste. - Paul Goldberger _______________________________________________ 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
