Gary, It's not possible to blank the screen in the way you describe without risking damage to your monitor and/or graphics card, because of the way that user input affects monitor power saving.
VNC Enterprise & Personal Editions currently have basic support for an alternative approach that avoids the risk of damaging the any hardware. Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Aldrich > Sent: 02 February 2006 18:27 > To: 'Gary Sieker'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Locking the server's display > > I Sit corrected. How about "TightVNC and RealVNC do not offer > a way to do > that"? I believe it has been discussed, but the feeling (from > memory) seems > to be that it creates problems on the system.... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Sieker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: Locking the server's display > > > Scott & John, > > Actually, it can be done (UltraVNC offers it, IIRC), by having windows > tell the monitor to go to stand-by during the connection. Maybe the > folks at real vnc could entertain adding this as a feature. It may > already be on their wish-list, I don't know... > > -Gary > > > > No. There is no way to do what you want on Windows. Remote > Desktop creates a > new "virtual desktop" much the way that Unix/Linux does. VNC > simply displays > the existing desktop remotely (for Microsoft Windows > products.) This is > pretty much a FAQ and probably ought to be in the FAQs if > it's not. :-) > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" > realvnc.com]On > Behalf Of Scott Genevish > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:27 PM > To: Scott Genevish > Cc: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com > Subject: Re: Locking the server's display > > > Does anyone know the answer for this? > > Thanks, > > -Scott > > > On Jan 21, 2006, at 5:55 AM, Scott Genevish wrote: > > > I am connecting to my work computer from home and it's working > > great with one problem. When I connect to my work computer, it's > > display shows everything I am doing. This is different than > > Windows Remote Desktop, which keeps the local display locked. > > > > Is there a way to avoid this? I know I can set VNC to lock the > > keyboard and mouse locally, but what abut the screen > itself? Would > > the Enterprise version, with WIndows authentication, work? > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Scott Genevish > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > VNC-List "at" realvnc.com > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List "at" realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > > -- > ___________________________________________________ > Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ > _______________________________________________ > 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
