Dennis, Is the computer in question acting as a router between the WAN and your LAN?
Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis Bathory-Kitsz > Sent: 13 December 2005 16:29 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Disconnects with 4.1 > > At 04:00 PM 12/13/05 -0000, James Weatherall wrote: > >It's extremely suspicious that port 5900 is in use on the computer in > >question, particularly if it's not listed by netstat -an. > Are you running > >any firewalling software on the problem system? > > Yes, ZoneAlarm, with VNC accepted as server and client (as on > the machines > that work fine). I've been to the ZoneAlarm site to > double-check that my > setup is supposed to work with VNC. I also have McAfee, > Spybot Search & > Destroy, and Ad-Aware, all of which report a clean system. > > I decided to try port 5900-5909 for the VNC server. 5900 and > 5901 do not > work, and 5902-5909 work. > > Doing that triggered an idea, though it may be way out in > left field: This > is my main computer and it (and only it) has the hard drives > of all the > other machines on the network mapped to it. Could it be that, > since ports > 5900 and 5901 are in use by other VNC clients and servers on those > machines, that this computer's VNC somehow sees those ports > as being in use > (even though netstat doesn't see them)? > > If that's the case, even though I don't access VNC from > outside my LAN and > according to the documentation really don't need to do this, perhaps I > should indeed set each machine on the LAN to a different port? > > Thanks, > Dennis > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis > Bathory-Kitsz > >> Sent: 13 December 2005 14:58 > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: RE: Disconnects with 4.1 > >> > >> At 02:42 PM 12/13/05 -0000, James Weatherall wrote: > >> >The problem you are seeing is caused by some other program > >> running using the > >> >port that you have told VNC Server to use. > >> >You just need to shut down the other program and restart > VNC Server. > >> > >> Netstat shows nothing else running on port 5900, but changing > >> VNC to 5904 > >> works. > >> > >> Netstat shows ports 0, 80, 137-139, 1027-1028, 1033-1034, > 1042-1043, > >> 1045-1047, 1058-1059, 2656-2657, 2723, 2914-2915, 2949-2950, > >> 2961-2962, > >> 2964, 2979, 6666-6668 and now 5904 are in use. (Many route to > >> port 2080 on > >> the WinGate server.) > >> > >> Dennis > >> > >> > >> > > >> >Regards, > >> > > >> >Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > >> > > >> > > >> >> -----Original Message----- > >> >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dennis > >> Bathory-Kitsz > >> >> Sent: 13 December 2005 13:36 > >> >> To: [email protected] > >> >> Subject: RE: Disconnects with 4.1 > >> >> > >> >> At 11:30 AM 12/13/05 -0000, James Weatherall wrote: > >> >> >Can you try running VNC Server with the "Log" parameter > >> added, set to > >> >> >"*:file:100"? This will create a log file in > >> >> C:\temp\winvnc4.log, which > >> >> >will include messages indicating why the server was unable > >> >> to listen for > >> >> >connections. > >> >> > >> >> Here are the log results: > >> >> > >> >> Tue Dec 13 08:35:20 2005 > >> >> Config: set immutable Log > >> >> main: WinVNC service destroyed > >> >> main: WinVNC process quitting > >> >> (10048) > >> >> ManagedListener: unable to bind listening socket: (10048) > >> >> > >> >> Dennis > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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
