On Oct 24, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Cody Bennett wrote:
I work for a campus helpdesk where we use VNC to remotely control user
machines. At the moment, a user must drill into the sub-menu, find the
"run vnc server" shortcut and then add the client (me, running in
listening mode).
Here's the ideal situation:
Find a shortcut that we could make available on the web - the user
clicks on the appropriate link, and magically a session is activated.
Something that would
Otherwise,
I'd like to have the user switches needed to allow the client to
have an shortcut on their desktop that magically initiates the
session.
I have tried using the -connect LISTENING_VIEWER_IP command, but that
doesn't seem to do the trick. It indicates briefly that the VNC server
is not available. If I set the shortcut to run with a -noconsole
switch
only, the VNC server loads as expected. If I run with a -noconsole
-connect LISTENING_VIEWER_IP, I again get that error that it is unable
to locate an existing VNC Server.
Any thoughts of how to make my dreams into a reality? :)
My recollection was: I made a PIF with "vncserver.exe -connect <IP>"
and told people to launch it. I made the PIF available on a web page,
so people could download it if it wasn't already on their desktop.
The listening server must already be running for the server to start,
since with '-connect' you're telling it to connect, and if it can't
connect, it exits.
But then I decided to try this.
Turns out the -connect option tells a *RUNNING* VNC service to
connect. I can't figure out how to start a server *and* connect in
one step.
So I think the best you can do is have them install and configure the
service. Tell it to not listen or accept any connections. *THEN* you
can run 'vncserver -connect <ipaddress', and it will work.
I've actually confirmed this.
You can actually have them start the service (once it's configured)
with winvnc4.exe -start, then run winvnc4.exe -connect. But you still
have to configure it.
Alternatively, you can just run the server with 'winvnc4.exe', but
that doesn't help much, since I can't figure out the windows
equivalent of how to 'background' a process, thus allowing you to have
the -connection option being given right after starting it. Somehow,
telling someone to run two commands kinda sucks.
Too bad there isn't a 'start the server and connect' option. :-(
Sean
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