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On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Phil Seakins wrote: On 19 June 2014 11:57, Szilard Albert wrote: I have been using a vnc session to log in into my office network. For years. Now suddenly my dedicated channel wont work. Any suggestions on how to solve this issue? Yeah. Install TeamViewer. It's free and

RE: VNC viewer for Chrome OS?

Regards Linda Hawksworth RealVNC Customer Support -Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Mike Miller Sent: 13 January 2013 22:21 To: VNC List Subject: VNC viewer for Chrome OS? On Linux or Windows, I'll use either the Free

vnc viewers on Android

I have a Kindle Fire with CyanogenMod (Android version 4.2.1) and a Saumsung/Google Nexus 4 also running Android 4.2.1. It looks like I can get a terminal and bash running easily enough. I think I get ssh running in bash, but not sure yet about port forwarding. I see that the Google Play sto

x2go (versus NX, Neatx and VNCs)

Is anyone using x2go? I was just reading about it: Ubuntu discussion (2010-2011): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1493336 Blog post (11/2010): http://foss-boss.blogspot.com/2010/11/show-off-ubuntu-desktop-on-cloud.html x2go site: http://www.x2go.org/ I'd be interested to hear about y

RE: VNC viewer for Chrome OS?

On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, J. Marc Edwards wrote: I'm actually very enamored with NX from NoMachine. NX is a compatible substitute for VNC. I've spent time examining RealVNC versus NX performance in side-by-side comparisons (visual/interactive view only). I've noted very substantive performance ad

RE: VNC viewer for Chrome OS?

602 Skype - (919) 747-3775 jmarcedwa...@gmail.com marc.edwa...@nimbisservices.com -Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Mike Miller Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 5:21 PM To: VNC List Subject: VNC viewer for Chrome OS? O

VNC viewer for Chrome OS?

On Linux or Windows, I'll use either the Free or Enterprise versions of the Real VNC viewer through an SSH tunnel and both work great. I'm thinking about a Chromebook as another potential option for connecting to my Xvnc sessions. I see that Chrome OS has SSH available, and it can do port for

Re: Key-repeating on MacOS

On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Michał Kowalczyk wrote: I have a problem with key-repeating. VNC server is on Kubuntu, VNC Client works on my MacOS Lion (10.7.5). Everything works fine except key-repeating. It is really annoying during work with a text (and moving cursor with arrows). Is this problem i

Re: VNC is freaking me out!

;executing commands that I have not entered." This would be like the lawn mower going down the street and mowing someone else's lawn. But thanks for teaching us how computers work. Mike Sent from my iPhone On 7 Dec, 2012, at 5:21 PM, "Mike Miller" wrote: On Thu,

Re: VNC is freaking me out!

On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Weary Trav wrote: A few months ago I started using VNC in order to access my office computer from my Iphone 4. Since I have started using it, I have noticed that at times my command prompt opens up all of a sudden and it starts executing some commands that I have not entere

Re: CPU at 100%, no refresh, known bug, but what to do?

t the controlling tty"), I'd hit "enter" and it would give me my command prompt from my old shell. I was then able to save command histories, etc. Mike From: Mike Miller To: VNC List Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 4:11 AM Subject:

CPU at 100%, no refresh, known bug, but what to do?

Here's the bug... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vnc4/+bug/819473 ...and I assume that is what has happened to me. I'm running Xvnc at 100% CPU and I can connect to it, but the screen won't refresh. I have a lot of stuff running there and I don't want to kill all of it, so I'm hop

Re: installing on Ubuntu 12.04

Have you tried using apt-get or synaptic or the Ubuntu software store to download and install the vnc package(s)? That is definitely the recommended way to go unless you need to compile it yourself for some special reason. This might work: sudo apt-get install x11vnc vnc-java Mike On Sat,

Re: Set an environment variable for an app.

On Mon, 21 May 2012, Karen Thompson wrote: I need to set an environemt variable for a program running via vncviewer. It requires a env. variable JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.6.0_31. I have tried looking up on the web for hours and have had no luck. I am sure this is something very easy, if I jus

Re: Build errors on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64 Linux (and probably others as well)

On Mon, 21 May 2012, Mikael Lyngvig wrote: Just thought I'd let you know that I had to add three times "#include " to the RealVNC 4.1.3 Unix sources downloaded from RealVNC.com. I don't recall the names of the files, but the problem should be trivial to reproduce as all it takes is to try to b

RE: Ubuntu with Xvnc to :1 with no window manager at :0

On Wed, 16 May 2012, Long, Phillip GOSS wrote: Once again, I have to emphasize that I am *not* an expert, nor have I ever used Xvnc, so I'm just going by what I have ready over the years; unfortunately, I can't tell U off-hand where I happened to read these things, other than to say that it wa

RE: Ubuntu with Xvnc to :1 with no window manager at :0

On Mon, 14 May 2012, Long, Phillip GOSS wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Mike Miller wrote: Is it possible to boot Ubuntu, not load an X window manager and still run Xvnc on :1 for remote access? If I'm actually sitting at the machine, I have to load a window manager to be able to see vncv

Re: Ubuntu with Xvnc to :1 with no window manager at :0

knows about this... On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Mike Miller wrote: Is it possible to boot Ubuntu, not load an X window manager and still run Xvnc on :1 for remote access? If I'm actually sitting at the machine, I have to load a window manager to be able to see vncviewer, I assume? Is that ho

RE: Ubuntu with Xvnc to :1 with no window manager at :0

e you are using. Regards Linda Hawksworth RealVNC Customer Support Please ensure you Reply to All and keep the subject line to ensure that your support ticket is appropriately tracked. -Original Message- From: vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-boun...@realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Mike M

Ubuntu with Xvnc to :1 with no window manager at :0

Is it possible to boot Ubuntu, not load an X window manager and still run Xvnc on :1 for remote access? If I'm actually sitting at the machine, I have to load a window manager to be able to see vncviewer, I assume? Is that how it works? What I've been doing is using IceWM in Xvnc and exclusi

Re: Windows RealVNC server not accepting connections

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Gregg Levine wrote: If I remember correctly, using VNC on Windows is tricky. Is it on the "allowed programs list" for the firewall? I think there are multiple layers of firewalling and I'm probably missing something. And for trying to connect to it on the host, you'd n

Re: Windows RealVNC server not accepting connections

On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Mike Miller wrote: I'm running the latest Free RealVNC server in service mode on a WinXP box and it isn't accepting any connections. I tried to connect to localhost and I get a dialog box right away saying the connection closed unexpectedly. I'm not

restricting the incoming IP address in Windows RealVNC

I'm going to run VNC on a Windows box. The firewall should block incoming VNC connections, which is what I want. The box should be VNC-accessible only to other boxes on the subnet (behind the firewall). So here's my question: Is it possible to tell VNC to accept connections only from a cert

Re: restricting the incoming IP address in Windows RealVNC

yOn Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Mike Miller wrote: I'm going to run VNC on a Windows box. The firewall should block incoming VNC connections, which is what I want. The box should be VNC-accessible only to other boxes on the subnet (behind the firewall). So here's my question: Is it possib

Windows RealVNC server not accepting connections

I'm running the latest Free RealVNC server in service mode on a WinXP box and it isn't accepting any connections. I tried to connect to localhost and I get a dialog box right away saying the connection closed unexpectedly. I'm not prompted for a password. The icon is in the tray saying it is

Re: help VNC free Edition 4.1

On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Yang, Yihong wrote: We are currently using VNC free Edition 4.1 server in our Linux machine. But the problem is that we can open several sessions on the Linux server. However, only 2 computers can access the server by using VNC viewer for No.1 and No.2 session. I have no i

RE: help VNC free Edition 4.1

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Yang, Yihong wrote: Out situation is that the people in lab will create several sessions on the server, and they will use viewer to access their own sessions. Once we create the sessions on the server, the server will give you a number based on the order of the creation, r

Re: Caps-lock inversion?

On Wed, 31 Aug 2011, Dale Eshelman wrote: I know it happens on Windows - 98, 2000, and XP. Have not used it on UNIX machines. I went a long time before I accidentally left the caps lock on. Took a while to figure it out. Thanks, Dale. I'm glad you discovered this before I did! I'll have

Re: Caps-lock inversion?

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Dale Eshelman wrote: When Caps-Lock is set on on the remote machine, it requires the local machine to set Caps-Lock on to get lower case. Funny that in so many years of using VNC that never happened to me. I had no idea. Maybe I never left capslock on on the server mac

disable toolbar in Enterprise viewer?

When I fire up the viewer in the Linux version of the Enterprise viewer, the first thing I always do is disable the toolbar so that I don't get that little box on top of the screen. Is there a command-line argument that I could use to prevent the toolbar from appearing? Mike ___

Re: [SOLVED]Re: failure of persistence of control key

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Mike Miller wrote: It looks like I have solved this problem. I don't think it has anything to do with VNC. I have two Ubuntu boxes -- one in my office running Xvnc server and one at home. When I was connecting to office Xvnc from home, it was working fine. W

Re: control key problems with xterm menus

On Mon, 9 May 2011, Steve Platt wrote: Further to my question about a problem when using vncviewer in Ubuntu linux (in which I found the Ctrl/Mouse-button combinations weren't working) I have found a workaround that may also provide some additional information. It seems that I was using the

Re: multiple screens

No one knows anything about this? I'm curious. I don't see anything in my man pages about the "+xinerama" option. Mike On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Arno Schuurs wrote: Hello, I have one RHEL5 system on which several persons are working with use of VNC. I managed to do this with xinetd. One of t

Re: Windows 7 /vista support.

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Ricardo Stella wrote: Yup... The want to sell... I've moved to UltraVNC for this reason... Which non-Real options are available for Xvnc server and multi-OS viewer? I've been using free Real Xvnc server on a Linux box and the free viewer on XP and Linux. I guess I ha

getting through firewalls

I'm running Xvnc on my office Ubuntu box, allowing connections only from localhost, then connecting via ssh with port forwarding. The office firewall allows connections only via port 22 (ssh). So that works when I can use port 22. My problem comes when I'm riding on MegaBus -- they have WiFi

[SOLVED]Re: failure of persistence of control key

eature would have caused problems, not the other way around, but enabling the feature fixed the problem. Mike On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Mike Miller wrote: I'm using Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.1 on my Ubuntu 9.10 system and connecting using either VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built A

Re: [SOLVED]Re: failure of persistence of control key

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Mike Miller wrote: It looks like I have solved this problem. I don't think it has anything to do with VNC. I shouldn't have said that because I don't know the cause. It could be the interaction of VNC viewer with the Gnome system, but it also coul

failure of persistence of control key

I'm using Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.1 on my Ubuntu 9.10 system and connecting using either VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built Apr 16 2008 13:23:14, or the VNC Viewer Enterprise Edition E4.4.3 (r16583) for X Built on Oct 14 2008 00:18:24 -- both give me the same problem. I'm using IceWM.

Re: Need to move my mouse to refresh VNC session

On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Corne Beerse wrote: On 4-11-2010 0:57, Marty Piorkowski wrote: During a VNC session, when I type something in an X-term window, nothing appears until I move my mouse a little. Moving the mouse is required to see what has transpired on the VNC screen. Any thoughts on to

Re: Questions About RealVNC Personal Edition...

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Dale Eshelman wrote: > The short answer is NO But what was the question? I don't see questions in the message you responded to, but there were about four questions in the message before that quoted below. Maybe the short answer was "NO" to all four of those questions. M

Re: Accessing more than one computer

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Ricardo Stella wrote: > You need to look at your router's settings. You then create rules to > redirect different external ports to different internal IPs: > > PORT 5900 ---> IP 192.168.0.10 - Port 5900 > PORT 5901 ---> IP 192.168.0.11 - Port 5900 > > deangi...@optusnet.com.

RE: Problem can you help

Most problems can be solved without help lists like this one. Sometimes questions come from people who have been working for hours or days on making a system work and they are really drained and hope for a little help from us. Maybe he searched for "connection dropped" and other stuff and did

Re: VNC server not listening on port 5800, 5801, etc. - Cannot connect via http

Let me just say "welcome" to the new Mike Miller. I've been on the list since 9/1998, so I just thought I'd mention that this Mike Miller (the one sending this message) and that Mike Miller (the one I am replying to) are two different people. Believe me, it happens a l

VNC server not listening on port 5800, 5801, etc. - Cannot connect via http

I am new to both Linux and VNC, but so far have been able to set up VNC properly on Fedora 11. I am able to connect locally using the client/server setup. However, I want to be able to connect via http. I understand that the vncserver listens on port 5903 (my display is 3), and should listen on the

Re: WAS SPAM

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, John Kaufmann wrote: > In a message dated 2009.07.01 13:32 -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > >>> Someone ban this moron! >> (Reva Dicerbo) >> >> So I guess we don't have a spam filter, or it is not currently working. >> Isn't it goo

Re: WAS SPAM

On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Ricardo Stella wrote: > Someone ban this moron! (Reva Dicerbo) So I guess we don't have a spam filter, or it is not currently working. Isn't it good to have a basic filter that would dump messages containing certain phrases? Mike __

Re: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, MrOrange wrote: > I've installed libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 from > libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-27_i386.deb > It wasn't easy to find! It seems to me that I had a problem compiling on Unbuntu x64 because it didn't have a 32-bit library, probably the one named above. So I foun

Re: Copy-Paste problems between Windows<-->Real VNC session

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, paresh masani wrote: > If some one especially Real VNC people can throw some guidance here then > it would really help to solve this issue. > > I am not sure how "exec /usr/bin/autocutsel" helped you. My problem is that I can't copy/paste at all between VNCviewer and anythi

Re: Copy-Paste problems between Windows<-->Real VNC session

I have been using autocutsel in my xstartup in Xvnc: exec /usr/bin/autocutsel & I used to be able to copy/paste between Windows and VNC, but not anymore. It also seems that in Gnome on Ubuntu I cannot copy/paste between an XTerm window in VNC and an XTerm outside of VNC. Copy/paste within VNC

Re: hanging after Gnome logout (fwd)

the list's server was down). --Mike -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:43:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Miller To: VNC List Subject: Re: hanging after Gnome logout On Tue, 5 May 2009, Mike Miller wrote: > I'm using Gnome with Ubuntu 8.10. I do mos

RANDR and "Generic Event Extension"

Do we know anything about how to deal with this problem? It applies at least to Xvnc on Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/344060 "This bug happens in VNC environment. The VNC server package is vnc4server. The theme is never right under the vnc server.

Re: Switch workspace on Linux in VNC full screen mode?

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Hao Yu wrote: We can use "ctrl + alt + left/right/up/down arrow" on Linux to switch workspace rapidly, which is very useful to some guys. But after entering VNC "full screen" mode, these key maps no longer take effect but captured by VNC itself, unless we give up the full sc

no spam filter?

I'm surprised the list has no spam filter for cases like this (e.g., when a subscriber's computer gets zombified, or whatever happened here). Mike ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc

RE: vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, James Weatherall wrote: Further to my previous mail, I'm not sure that the current VNC Viewer for Mac OS X releases support server names specified directly on the command-line, although specifying a ".vnc" file on the command-line instead should work. Is that without an a

RE: vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, James Weatherall wrote: Further to my previous mail, I'm not sure that the current VNC Viewer for Mac OS X releases support server names specified directly on the command-line, although specifying a ".vnc" file on the command-line instead should work. VNC Servers are refe

RE: vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X

this applies to all vncviewers on all OSs, am I right? Related question: Is there a reason to prefer localhost:25901 to 127.0.0.1:25901 ? Do they *always* do exactly the same thing? Best, Mike -Original Message- From: vnc-list-ad...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-ad...@realvnc.com]

vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X

I put the VNC viewer for Mac OS X on a thumb drive and managed to get it to work with SSH and the script I was working on the other day. It doesn't seem to recognize the "localhost:25901:1" part of the command though, so I had to increase "sleep 10" to "sleep 100" to have enough time to deal w

using plink in batch file for VNC connections

This bash script allows me to connect from Cygwin to my Xvnc server ("myserver.edu"), which is allowing connections only from localhost: begin script on next line- #!/usr/bin/bash ssh -f -L 25901:127.0.0.1:5901 myserver.edu sleep 10 vncviewer Shar

calling the client from the server

For GNU/Linux systems, I see this option for vncconfig: -connect host[:port] Tells an Xvnc server to make a "reverse" connection to a listen- ing VNC viewer (normally connections are made the other way round - the viewer connects to the server). host is the host wher

RE: 'pass special keys directly to server' not supported in Linux

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, James Weatherall wrote: No, that behaviour is not supported at present. I also would like the requested feature, but what I do is make my desktop about the size of my monitor so that I can jump between maximize and full-screen modes and have it work about as well for me

Re: keep alive?

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, John Serink wrote: Make sure polling is eanabled on vnc. This should keep repaints happening as the desktop clock increments. I don't know if that is supposed to be enabled by Xvnc (vncserver) or by the client. There is nothing about "polling" or "poll" in the man pages

Re: keep alive?

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, John Serink wrote: Make sure polling is eanabled on vnc. This should keep repaints happening as the desktop clock increments. How is that done? I don't see anything about "polling" in the man pages for Xvnc, vncserver or vncviewer. I'm using GNU/Linux machines. Mike

keep alive?

What is the trick to keeping a VNC session alive? With SSH we have schemes for sending packets intermittently to keep inactive sessions from being killed by routers. Maybe such a thing exists for RealVNC. I'm using this: The server is Xvnc version 4.0b4 The viewer is VNC Viewer Free Edition

Re: VNC Viewer Vulnerability CVE-2008-4770

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A vulnerability has been reported in a core VNC Viewer component's validation of server-supplied RFB protocol data. This issue only affects the VNC Viewer component, VNC Servers are not affected. VNC Free Edition Viewer users should upgrade to ver

Re: help re file transfer

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Dale Eshelman wrote: To my knowledge there is no FTP (File Transfer Protocal) to transfer a file between to remote computers. scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:dir That would copy both file1 and file2 on two different machines with two

Re: help re file transfer

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, John Serink wrote: Yes On a windows box, install freesshd, Set it to allow tunnelling via local host, Set it to allow sftp access. Tunnel your vnc through the ssh connection and use sftp for file transfers. Its slick, it works and its fully encrypted. On a unix box, sshd

Ubuntu Xvnc packages -- libwrap? access to :0?

It has been a while since I installed Xvnc on anything but now I have a new Ubuntu box and am excited to make it do cool things. With Xvnc there used to be a patch, back in the 3.3 days at least, that allowed me to compile against libwrap.a and use Wietse Venema's "tcp wrappers" for access con

Re: Screen only updates on mouse movement

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Tristan Richardson wrote: Sounds suspiciously like this problem in which case there is a simple workaround: http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2005-February/049352.html It is interesting to me that I have no memory of that! It looks like a nice answer to my ques

Re: Screen only updates on mouse movement

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Elderman, Melvin wrote: We have RedHat Linux Enterprise Server 4 with vncserver. Our clients are running RedHat Linux Client 4 and have vncviewer 4.0 Some are on Windows XPSp2 and have the Free edition 4.1 Due to our systems functionality we cannot easiliy upgrade. Problem:

Re: GNOME takes lot of time to LOAD through VNC

Did anyone already ask if this is the only Gnome session? Unlike some window managers, you can only run one Gnome per user at a time. Otherwise, the two Gnomes interfere with one another and cause failures. Mike On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Are you sure this problem is 1

RE: VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

t that doesn't allow installation of software? Some things persist for later logins (e.g., list of recent connections), so does that mean that VNCviewer writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE? Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Miller

Re: VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Mike Miller wrote: The reason I am interested in this is that some friends in another department have a very heavy-handed IT staff that won't allow them to install any programs. I'm wondering if there is no way around this restriction

Re: VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Mike Miller wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Ronin Vladiamhe wrote: VNC Viewer (only) does not appear to be an installed program. VNC viewer, as it is provided by RealVNC, is indeed a standalone executable file. (1)With that

Re: VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Mike Miller wrote: If the user of the Windows machine does not have administrator permissions and is not allowed to install software, does this mean that VNCviewer cannot run from the thumb drive? I'm thinking that the answer is yes becau

Re: VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Ronin Vladiamhe wrote: VNC Viewer (only) does not appear to be an installed program. VNC viewer, as it is provided by RealVNC, is indeed a standalone executable file. (1)With that being true, can the viewer (only) be installed on a CD/USB drive

Re: VNC Enterprise - centralized administration

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Jeff Hignett wrote: I had a quick general question for you. I am curious to know if by using VNC Enterprise, Would i be able to change the VNC password and have it effect all clients on multiple platforms, or will i have to go to each client individually? In other words, c

Re: VNCrobot license issue

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Mike Miller wrote: It is being distributed under a "freeware license": http://www.vncrobot.com/downloads/index.html From there main page here... http://www.vncrobot.com/ ...we read "VNCRobot is a tool based on a VNC client." and "VNCRobot is a

VNCrobot license issue

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Ran Sasson @ I.O. Ltd. wrote: On 3/21/07, Mark Rainford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try vncrobot: it has screen capture... Nice tool, so it seems... Unfortunately it is not GPL'ed , and how come it's source-code is not available ? It is being distributed under a "freewa

RE: Obtaining screenshots

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, James Weatherall wrote: Depends on the version of VNC, I think when using the print scrn button. I notice when we moved from 3.7X to 4.X the regular print scrn did not work from that machine to my machine. I had to copy the image local to the PC I am connecting to. You j

Re: Obtaining screenshots

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, derrick welsh wrote: 'alt and printsc' should do it as long as the window is selected I'll second that. I've done it many times from a windows machine and it works perfectly. It puts the content of the window, including the frame, into the clipboard. You can then ope

Re: Possible to calculate dimension of a window

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Mohamed Mansour wrote: I am wondering is it possible in RealVNC to calculate any windows dimension when your mouse is over it? I am trying to develop over RealVNC a mod for research. I would like to figure out if it is possible (not to complex) to find the dimension, loc

Re: A heads up on new worm affecting previous versions of RealVNC

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, William Hooper wrote: What do we know about which VNC versions are vulnerable? Check it out using the CVE number: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-2369 This references the bug in version 4.1.1. Thanks! That's what I thought. This note from Red Hat is fun

Re: A heads up on new worm affecting previous versions of RealVNC

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Diana Hargus wrote: Just had to clean up this new worm from an infected pc. Apparently the vector was through an um-updated VNC on a friend's pc. Just another reason to update and patch. http://www.us.sophos.com/security/analyses/w32rbotgai.html From the writeup on the

dual-headed monitors and VNC on Windows

I'm actually using [EMAIL PROTECTED] on my PC, so I'm not sure that this problem applies to RealVNC. Let me know if I should go away (preferrably to an [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, if there is one), but I have been on this list for more than 8 years and I like it! The problem is that when I connec

Re: vnc security flaw?

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Alex Pelts wrote: IMHO, VNC people did all they could to fix the problem and post the update. It is up to the users to make sure they are up to date. If you do not like RealVNC security record you are always free to run any other software. There are really many choices you ca

Re: Fwd: Re: 4.1.1 security flaw: client or server?

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Clinton Sinkhorn wrote: why in the hell am i getting all of the emails for [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] List-Unsubscribe: , [snip] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/m

Re: is v. 4.0 vulnerable?

On Thu, 18 May 2006, Mike Miller wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006, James Weatherall wrote: The problem is specific to the VNC 4 series. OK, but some people believe that the 4.0 versions are not affected. From our IT guys: We went back and forth a bit with Red hat and our own security folks on

is v. 4.0 vulnerable?

On Wed, 17 May 2006, James Weatherall wrote: The problem is specific to the VNC 4 series. OK, but some people believe that the 4.0 versions are not affected. From our IT guys: We went back and forth a bit with Red hat and our own security folks on this one. Red Hat distributes V4.0 of Re

Re: Version 4.1.2

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Harold Fuchs wrote: Mike Miller wrote: Another good reason to release binaries first -- think about this -- a bad guy could download both the new source and the old source, do diffs and figure out how to exploit the vulnerability. If the binaries are out there first

Re: Version 4.1.2

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Rex Dieter wrote: James Weatherall wrote: Interesting that the source is only available *after* the executable. Just common sense, under the circumstances... Complying with vnc's GPL licensing makes a little sense too. They own the license. That means that they can

is v. 3.3.3 vulnerable?

Are older versions of RealVNC such as 3.3.3 (for Solaris) vulnerable to the new exploit? I guess I'm using an old version on one of my machines because I compiled against libwrap.a and I'm not sure how to do that again! Mike ___ VNC-List mailing lis

Re: Version 4.1.2

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Harold Fuchs wrote: If we are going to get serious, I'll have to ask the obvious question: why is the source only available *after* the executable? "Just common sense, under the circumstances..." leads to the question what circumstances? As an outsider, I'll just add t

[EMAIL PROTECTED] vulnerability

What are your opinions on this? (below) How serious is it? Mike * @RISK: The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert May 8, 2006 Vol. 5. Week 18 **

Re: use of TCP wrappers with VNC Enterprise Edition?

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, William Hooper wrote: Mike Miller wrote: [snip] block all VNC connections except from localhost This portion can be achieved by using the "-localhost" switch. "-localhost Only allow connections from the same machine. Useful if you use SSH and want

use of TCP wrappers with VNC Enterprise Edition?

I used to compile VNC against libwrap.a to use Wietse Venema's tcp wrappers. Is it possible to use tcpwrappers with Enterprise Edition? If not, I could just use ordinary Real VNC compiled with libwrap.a, block all VNC connections except from localhost and force everyone outside to use VNC via

Re: Connect through a linksys router

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Shobuz99 wrote: Although not a total newbie to VNC (used since 1998); I am new to connecting to a VNC server through a router and am not quite sure I understand the process. For example, I run VNC (3.3.7) server on my office machine, that is connected to a router. The IP

Re: logout the gnome-session

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, ?? ? wrote: When I use vncviewer connect to a remote linux host and start a gnome-session,can somebody do someting on the gnome , that ,, as I select "logout" from the launch menu , not only exit the gnome-session but also kill the VNC server? It does the thing that "vncs

UltraVNC, file transfer, encryption, and tray icon

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Steve Bostedor wrote: Take your pick between TightVNC(http://www.tightvnc.com) and UltraVNC (http://www.ultraVNC.com) They are both great VNC servers. UltraVNC supports encryption while TightVNC doesn't, but other than that, I believe they're very comparable. I'm tryi

RE: making connection despite cable modem and Linksys router

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, James Weatherall wrote: Have you configured your router to forward port 5800 to your VNC Server computer? Please note that port 5800 is normally used only to serve the Java VNC Viewer, and you'll need to additionally forward port 5900 in order to actually connect via VNC

Re: making connection despite cable modem and Linksys router

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Mike Miller wrote: I know this has to be a FAQ that has been asked a million times but 30 minutes of searching did not get me an answer so I'm hoping one of you can direct me to the web page that explains this. I installed Enterprise VNC server on my PC and had

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