I downloaded the latest version of VNC and installed it on 2 machines on my LAN behine a router. One of the machines is connected to the router via a wireless connection, the second on an ethernet connection to the router.Router is then connected to a broadband modem. Both machines were behind Kerio's 2.14 firewall and the VNC was installed in XP Pro with service pack 1 installed. VNC worked in the situation over the locan LAN with the XP Pro software.Settings are default for VNC server and viewer. Now here is the problem: I sent the VNC software to a friend and he installed it on his slow Pentium 120 computer with Win98 installed.. He then connected to his dialup compuserve account via a modem, fired up the VNC server, and then I tried to connect with the VNC viewer using the XP Pro box that connects to the router via the ethernet connection. No changes were made to the setup that had run successfully with the local computer that is connected to the router wirelessly. VNC found the computer on the ip adddress, asked for the password, and made the connection. From his computer, he sees the mouse move once and then nothing. His system is active otherwise. I see his computer screen but no movement and mouse activity on my part causes no activity on his computer. The XP Pro computer eventually shows VNC is nt responding and I have to kill the program. We tried this several times, even exited the Kerio firewall, with the same results. THis computer is multibooted with Win98, W2K, RedHat 8.0 also loaded in separate partitions. The W2K with SP 3 exhibited the same behavior and blue screen with an IRQL_NOT_EQUAL error ( usually a driver problem). W2K does not have a firewall installed. The Win98 version on this machine works with the Win98 version on his machine. I want to use this software to remotely support seniors at a retirement home that have a mixture of Microsoft OSes, but mainly Win98 and WinME, although the XP numbers are increasing as people add new machines. I realize I can use the builtin XP remote software with XP users but would prefer to use on approach.
Anyone got ideas on why VNC would exhibit this behavior on XP Pro and W2K? Thanks in advance BJ BJ _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
