RE: VISTA Reverse Connection

2007-10-30 Thread James Weatherall
Hi Dave, Vista has some kludges to try to workaround the inherent security flaws in Win32's window messaging system, which unfortunately break the -connect feature of VNC 3 & VNC 4 Free Edition servers. VNC Personal & Enterprise Edition servers use a new mechanism that isn't affected by this aspe

Re: VISTA Reverse Connection

2007-10-30 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
OK, I see. My reply was to your sentence "... another service to tell it that it is *time* to start ...". When it's about "time", I would think of using scheduler. That's all I meant. OK, back to your problem. VNC 4.1.2 free edition, as far as I know, doesn't work well in service mod

Re: VISTA Reverse Connection

2007-10-29 Thread Dave Larson
Thanks for the suggestion, but I have method that fits my needs that works on WinXP and I am trying to make it work on VISTA. Currently I have clients that are behind firewalls and I am not allowed to contact them directly. I have another service that checks with me and finds out that I want to m

Re: VISTA Reverse Connection

2007-10-29 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Dave Larson wrote: > Hello All, > > I am running Winvnc4 as a system service on Windows VISTA I would like > another service to tell it that it is time to start a reverse connection. I > have been doing this with RealVNC version 3 without any problems. > > Thanks, > Dave > Another service?