Hello, I hope someone can help here as I have searched everywhere else to no luck, but I am experiencing two issues with frequently; firstly my work involves a heavy use of remote administration using both VNC and RDP. Unfortunately I am more and more often finding problems when trying to use both together on Windows 2003 servers, in particular when using the Console RDP session remotely.
The problem occurs when you have VNC as a service and connect to the console session with RDP, sometimes what happens is that the VNC session freezes when RDP disconnects, any future VNC connections get a black screen unless the RDP session is connected as well (when vnc works!). Any service restart of VNC has no effect and only a reboot of the server will get VNC back! I have tested this quite thoroughly and I don't believe the problem is caused by multiple VNC instances, certainly once the VNC freezes killing anything vnc related PID's and restarting the service has no effect. A second even rarer problem I have seen on four different occasions is for no apparent reason (not necessarily involving the console rdp session) is that the login screen user name and password will be greyed out. As a result it is impossible to login to the server locally or using VNC! You can still login via RDP fine but again the only way to restore the console session and VNC is a reboot! Interestingly though if you connect via RDP to the console session you then can login, BUT it immediately causes the prior issue with VNC freezing on disconnect! The VNC versions involved vary but are primarily: TightVNC 1.25, RealVNC 3.3.3, VNC 3.3.7 and some VNC 4. Unfortunately our in house remote support software runs integrated with VNC and so currently only works 'normally' with VNC 3.x server so my testing of VNC4 is incomplete, also these are mostly client production servers that I cant "test" very much on. If this is a known issue with VNC 3.x is there anything I can do? -- Martin Laukkanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Support Engineer Scanned for viruses and spam by Wavex's SVX system - www.wavex.co.uk/products/svx.htm _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
