There is a bug in WinVNC (Server) concerning the determination whether the server is running as a service or as an application which pops up under Win98.
If the Win98 network configuration does not contain a network client and therefore does not contain any logon functionality (neither a "Logon at client for MS networks" nor a "Logon at Windows") there will be no current user logged on the system. My network configuration consists of only two entries "Network Adapter XYZ" and the binding of "TCP/IP to Network Adapter XYZ" and no network clients. Although the Windows network applet complains about a missing network client, such a configuration is a valid one and can be applied. It may be a little unusual but it's the recommended network configuration of my ISP (chello) and I like it very much because it's one of the simplest network configurations I know. For WinVNC (at least when running under Win98) this is a problem because WinVNC uses the availability of a current user name to determine whether it was started as a service or as an application. It seems that WinVNC does not check explicitly whether it was started as a service (when running under Win98) - it just queries for the current user name and if there is none, it thinks that it was started as a service. The results of the above described system configuration are as follows: - WinVNC does NOT show a tray icon - WinVNC reads and stores its settings from the wrong registry keys _________________________________________________________________ MSN - More useful every day http://www.msn.de _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
