Wow, I'm embarrased at how simple this solution was - and how complicated my attempts to find it were - but I'll post it anyway, for the benefit of others.
After must now be hours of scouring this forum/list and the Internet, I came upon someone saying that VNC worked after they stopped and re-started the service. This didn't work for me, but it led me to try running the Server in User Mode, and it WORKED!! (I must have tried this before, but there may have been other issues in play which I resolved in the interim, such as disabling the firewall. The latter action is of course highly undesirable, but now I can go back and apply the proper rules, if necessary). The cause? In the Connections tab of the server's Options/Properties, there is a section called Access Control. This was, while running in Server Mode, EMPTY, but in User Mode it was populated with my network's address range (oh, yeah, I remember that, from waaaay back)! I don't know why User/Program mode doesn't share the same properties as the Service Mode, but apparently it doesn't. So, I added this info into my Server Mode properties (typical example for typical private networks: +192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0), and voil`, it works!! As I said, this worked before in server mode, but somewhere along the line, perhaps following an upgrade/reinstallation of VNC, those settings must have gotten nuked. Happiness and joy! Thanks to all for their valued help and advice! Salutations, -Paul On 1 May 2006 14:30:56 -0000, ............ 9v43thv02-at-sneakemail.com |VNCList| <...> wrote:
John, thanks again for the suggestions; In Services (on the Server), I have: Remote Access Auto Connection Manager Remote Access Connection Manager Remote Desktop Help Session Manager They are all set to "Manual", and only the middle one, "Remote Access Connection Manager", was started, but it looks to be related with my Trend Internet Security, not Remote Desktop. I always disable Fast User Switching, as it's a security risk (bad idea to display the names of all of the computer's accounts!). I looked again at the event log, and noticed that only the Server-to-Viewer connection (5500) logged events; connection attempts in the other direction, which is what I'm having problems with, doesn't seem to log anything at all! Earlier in this list, I posted an event, but I'm not certain which/where/when event produced it. I think I'm going to have to install Ethereal on the Server and sniff its side. Salutations, -Paul - Hide quoted text - On 5/1/06, John Aldrich JAldrich-at-covista.com wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Friday, April 28, 2006 5:22 PM: > > > Interesting... Thanks for the sug, John! On which > > computer(s) should I disable Remote Desktop? (I don't use > > it, so not even sure where to do that...) > > > Whichever one is the "server" PC. Just because *you* aren't using it doesn't > mean one of your family members isn't. Also, you might try disabling Fast > User Switching. Can't tell you right off how to do it, but I've Googled > these before and found the info fairly easy to find. :-) > -------------------------------------- Protect yourself from spam, use http://sneakemail.com _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
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