On 14/08/2003 at 6:41 p.m. William Hooper wrote:

>The server does have a debug mode.  Unfortunately "Unable to connect to
>server" is generally a networking problem, not a VNC one.

        Thought as much. Was hoping VNC could diagrnose at least some idea as to why 
it wasn't able to do it's thing and help us poor fleshies.

>I wouldn't be too sure.  A number of ISPs started blocking port 5900 after
>a MS Windows trojan used the VNC code.

        Wow, news to me.

        Surely they didn't start doing that in the last couple of days though...

                Should I re-set the ports to something uncommon do you think.

>That doesn't mean VNC is accepting connections from anywhere in
>particular, though.  Have you checked the AuthHosts registry setting (I
>know someone else mentioned it)?

        Yes, checked and all looks clear to me.

>You most likely have a firewall in the way (either your own or your ISPs).
> Another option would be that VNC isn't binding to the interface, but I
>would expect it to throw up an error message.  Maybe looking into the
>WinVNC debugging isn't a bad idea.

        Tried it with firewalls in place (as it was when it was working fine) and with 
all firewalls offline, no difference.


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