I believe that behavior is what is meant by "doesn't work (well) with Fast User Switching." :-) Certainly, if you reboot or otherwise log back in as the admin user, it will work. However, if you remove / disable FUS and force everyone to log in the old-fashioned way (logging out one user and logging in another) it's less likely to cause problems with VNC. However, if someone is there to log out the current user and log the admin back in, that's OK too.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Colquhoun Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Weird XP disconnect problem Contrary to the quotation from the manual, I find VNC works perfectly well with fast user switching on. It works as long as though I (the administrator) was the last person logged on, even if others have logged on in the meantime. But while any other user is logged on i cannot reach the remote machine. I use it to keep contact with the home machine (mostly to restart Laplink, which is great for file transfer with internet connection, but which has the annoying habit of not reconnecting after the connection is lost unless the remote Laplink is restarted). In this case I need to phone home to get the machine restarted, Recently I discovered the " Running WinVNC as a service" option and that makes logging onto a restarted computer much more reliable (see http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/3.3.7/winvnc.html) Certainly the way realvnc copes with fast user switching leaves a lot to be desired, but there is no need to switch it off David Colquhoun At 12:00 25/10/2005, you wrote: >Message: 9 >From: "Phil Smith III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Weird XP disconnect problem >Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:31:15 -0400 > >I'm using RealVNC 4.1 (I think; I know it's 4.x and it's pretty recent) >and often use it to go from one XP SP2 machine to another, on the same >subnet. Works a treat. > >Except...if my daughter's account is logged onto the XP machine (it has >Fast User Switching enabled), I connect, log onto her ID, and get >disconnected. Event log shows "Clean disconnection". > >Any ideas? > >...phsiii > >--__--__-- > >Message: 10 >Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:07:41 -0400 (EDT) >Subject: Re: Weird XP disconnect problem >From: "William Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [email protected] > >Phil Smith III wrote: >[snip] XP machine (it has Fast User Switching enabled)[snip] __________________________________ David Colquhoun Dept of Pharmacology University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Phone: (+44) (0)20-7679-3765 Fax: (+44) (0)20-7679-7298 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc.html or www.dcsite.org.uk (Pictures: Spring 2005, and UCL-Axis of Peace) Job advertisement: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Pharmacology/dc-bits/advert05.html Graduate school 17-21 July 2006: http://www.grad.ucl.ac.uk/courses/course-details.pht?course_ID=357 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
