Thanks for all your responses! I had feedback about three major topics:
#1 - color depth
connection (I had this issue with a connection recently). Try changing the settings to low colours on the client (so it uses less bandwidth) and connect again. Also, check that the server does not have a picture/photo as the desktop, this also kills my connections!
Yep, that was one of the first things I tried, but to no avail =( #2 - Remote Desktop
Check that Remote Desktop has not been used to connect to Console on the remote computer. If it has been done (mstsc /CONSOLE /V:servername) then remote computer must be rebooted or all sessions reset/terminated. to check for this condition; if console and session-ID 0 are on the same line, you do NOT have this problem. If console is connected to, say, session 3, you're in this trouble. If you do not want to reboot the server, you can use
I read about Remote Desktop and Fast User Switching mucking with VNC on an XP system. To my knowledge, on the server, neither is running (their services are even disabled in the administration setup). I also confirmed from Windows Command Prompt that console is session-ID 0. #3 - Network MTU
It sounds like you've got a network-MTU issue - VNC server's updates can't get through to your viewer because the server computer is sending network packets that are too large for some part of your network, and they're being dropped - at a guess. Does the connection drop after a short while?
Yes, in fact it does! I don't know much about MTU, but I did set it to 1500 on the router that goes with the client. I have tried connecting 4 different machines to this router, and 2 of them successfully connect to the remote VNC server -- is there some machine-specific MTU setting that should be set? It's very strange that some machines can, and others cannot, connect to the same VNC server... it would seem like there's nothing wrong on the server's end. Thanks for all the help, -Justin _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
