Both client and server are 3.3.7. Win2k works great - no problems. XP I get authenicated, and a black screen.
Thanks, Blake > Greetings, > > I hope some of you can point me in the right direction, I am completely > stumped. I have used VNC for years and never had a single problem. > > At my clients office they have a Windows ME machine running Real VNC server > 3.3.7. There is an XP laptop that can connect fine while on the LAN. At > home, I have a Windows 2000 server that can connect to the LAN through a > PPTP tunnel and then connect to the Win ME box via VNC with no problems. > The XP laptop on the same remote LAN, connecting the same way through the > VPN cannot connect to the Win ME machine. VNC authenticates and then shows > a black screen that disconnects after a short time. > > I have searched the archives and read some stuff about the MTU setting. I > have changed it on the Win ME machine to 1400. I even turned off fast user > switching on the XP machine. I have tried both the VNC Client and the java > client. The java client appears to load but I never get the initial screen. > I have tried different viewer versions (ORL 3.3.3.3 REAL 3.3.7.0) and the > latest tight VNC, all with similar results. > > So, I guess my questions are; Why does 2000 work and XP not? What am I > missing? How do I go about diagnosing this? Any help will be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Blake -----Original Message----- From: Scott C. Best [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:45 PM To: Blake McSwain Subject: RE: VNC to WinXP (was: <no subject>) Huh, that is more interesting. :) What version of VNC on the WinXP box? -Scott On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Blake McSwain wrote: > If the XP Laptop is on the LAN there are no problems. VNC works fine if you > take the VPN out of the equation. > > Thanks, > > Blake > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Scott C. Best > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: VNC to WinXP (was: <no subject>) > > > Blake: > Since you can connect to the WinXP machine (ie, you get > to the "authentication" part of the connection), you don't have > any network or firewall problems to worry about. That's the good > news. > The bad news is that WinXP and VNC don't play very nicely > with each other if you're not a little careful. Here's a list of > potential problems you may see: > > http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/76.html > > You can skip the first part, as it's about WinXP's firewall, > and you're past that hurdle. One of the others is tripping you up... > > -Scott _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
