Need help with Multiscreen and VNC with Java Applet (Browser)

2005-08-17 Thread Voller Christian
We are using multiscreen with a Matrox G450 Dual DVI Card. We want to visualize some WinCC Siemens Processes. We also want to connect over the VNC Browser Plugin to an other Panel to view Screensettings. Now the interesst thing is: On primary screen everything is working fine!! On secondary scree

RE: authentication error

2005-08-17 Thread James Weatherall
Bill, If you are connecting to any VNC 4 series server (including VNC Enterprise Edition) for Windows, you will find "Connections: accepted" and "Connections: closed" messages in the Application Event Log of the computer on which the server is running. The only reason that these might not be ther

RE: authentication error

2005-08-17 Thread James Weatherall
Bill, Have you restarted the service since removing TightVNC? TightVNC is based upon our old VNC 3 system, and will by default accept connections on the standard VNC port. Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behal

RE: Port forwarding

2005-08-17 Thread James Weatherall
Mike, Assuming that you are connecting across the Internet to a machine that is connected via a NAT router, you will need to use the Internet IP address of the router to connect, and have the router forward connections to its port 5900 to the relevant computer on your LAN. The router's documentat

Re: VNC security

2005-08-17 Thread Bernard Peek
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mbrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes We are behind a firewall, but want to get VNC to allow consultants we trust to have remote access to our computers (and vice versa). Past posts to this list convinced me that opening a port in the firewall for specific users is a

RE: Native Display Problem : Server PC frozen, viewer window went Black

2005-08-17 Thread James Weatherall
YSK, What version of vnc.so are you using? (This will be logged to the X server's log file on startup e.g. to /var/log/XFree86.0.log on many systems). Are you using a very recent X server on the Linux system? Can you try reproducing the problem and then try pinging the Linux machine to verify t

RE: Need help with Multiscreen and VNC with Java Applet (Browser)

2005-08-17 Thread James Weatherall
Voller, This mailing list strips attachments, I'm afraid. Firstly, you are running an old version of VNC server - I would recommend upgrading to VNC 4.1.1. I'm not sure what you mean by "changing the settings the problem is solved" - are you saying that with the settings changed, everything upda

RE: VNC security

2005-08-17 Thread James Weatherall
Mike, Neither worms nor viruses can propagate via a VNC connection, since the protocol contains no scripting or executable elements. The main issues with opening a firewall to allow VNC access are to do with session snooping, tampering and impersonation attacks, which are pretty rare. VNC Enter

RE: VNC security

2005-08-17 Thread James Weatherall
Bernard et al, > >specific users is a secure activity, but our IT guys are now > saying that > >it doesn't necessarily protect our systems from worms or viruses that > >may already inhabit the trusted user's computers. > > That's correct, in that if there was a weakness in VNC it could be > exp

TightVNC v Ultra VNC - Which is best?

2005-08-17 Thread Gareth Davies, Aberdeen Internet
Have been trying TightVNC but having had a quick look at UltraVNC it looks appealing. Looks like a bit nicer interface and some other advantages such as chat, and rescaling viewer to fit window. And did I read somewhere that it's normally faster? (I just need for between Windows PCs). Can anyone

RE: VNC security

2005-08-17 Thread James Weatherall
Bernard, > Alternatively it's possible to configure VNC to only accept > connections > from localhost. This requires a VPN to be set up between the > remote and > local machines. That can use any type of encryption your IT > guys think > is required. Even if the blackhats sniff the network t

RE: Problem using VNC and ZoneAlarm

2005-08-17 Thread Jim Bohnsack
Last Friday, I replied to two postings on the above subject with the message below. I've been able to resolve the problem, but will first say what did not work. It was not a problem with ZoneAlarm. I disabled ZA on my home machine (viewer) and tried with the Win/XP firewall and also without

Re: TightVNC v Ultra VNC - Which is best?

2005-08-17 Thread Floyd Sense
I tried UltraVNC to control a complex remote application and found it unacceptable. Many times, pull-down menus on the desktop screen were not displayed on the remote laptop, nor were some error message windows. The result was hang situations that couldn't be resolved without manual intervent

RE: TightVNC v Ultra VNC - Which is best?

2005-08-17 Thread Steve Bostedor
Have you tried the video driver that comes with each flavor? I've seen significant improvements when the UltraVNC video driver is installed on the remote computer. - Steve Bostedor http://www.vncscan.com More than just a VNC Manager! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[E

Re: Shortcut to reverse connection parameters

2005-08-17 Thread Yann Renard
Yann Renard wrote: Hi everyone, I have been using RealVNC to help several friends of mine over the internet for years now. My way of doing it was to install the VNC server on their computer, additionaly add an entry to no-ip so I can easily find them back and everything went ok this way. Now

RE: Problem using VNC and ZoneAlarm

2005-08-17 Thread James Weatherall
Jim, The error you were seeing indicated that the VNC Viewer was unable to resolve the hostname that you were entering. This is a problem with the viewer computer not being able to look up the server name, not with the server itself. One possible cause of such a problem in a Windows-centric LAN

RE: Problem using VNC and ZoneAlarm

2005-08-17 Thread Jim Bohnsack
I wondered about something like that and tried to connect from home to the PC in the adjoining office and got the same result. I could ping the PC in the adjoining office, however. I can't ping my own because I guess I must have incoming ICMP blocked by my office firewall. When I tried to con

RE: Shortcut to reverse connection parameters

2005-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
You're correct... we can't email batch files through our corporate email server here. What you'd have to do in a case like that is just include the text and indicate that the recipient should copy and paste the relevant text into a text document and save it as a batchfile. I have my doubts as to th

RE: VNC 4.1.1 Build problems on AIX

2005-08-17 Thread twurgl
I have verified no files were overwritten and the patch applied properly. It won't compile. I have brought in the xorg version and am attempting that. thanks The information contained herein is GOODYEAR PROPRIETARY information and includes GOODYEAR CONFIDENTIAL information. Reproduction of thi

RE: authentication error

2005-08-17 Thread Bill Gunter
Nope, no Log under that registry tree. And I definitely haven't changed anything in the registry. Also, there is no Log value under that tree on another machine that is logging correctly. On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 06:32 -0500, James Weatherall wrote: > Bill, > > If you are connecting to any VNC 4 ser

VNC and HTTP/SOCKS proxies

2005-08-17 Thread Scott C. Best
Heyaz. Apologies in advance for the slightly off-topic post... I was hoping to hear from some volunteers willing to test-out accessing VNC servers that are behind either HTTP or SOCKS proxies. We've recently added that capability to the open-source EchoVNC project, and while inter

Re: TightVNC v Ultra VNC - Which is best?

2005-08-17 Thread Alex Pelts
I have tried several VNC variants and they all have some minor or not so minor issues. Depending on your requirements "the best" could be different. If you want the most seamless experience and work a lot remotely, RealVNC is the best in my opinion. It handles keys in most intuitive way and th

RE: authentication error

2005-08-17 Thread James Weatherall
Bill, In the absence of the Log entry, the server will log correctly. It's only if you have a broken Log entry that it won't. What is the output you get when you run: telnet 5900 Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

vnc unable to connect

2005-08-17 Thread vinod wadhawan
I recently installed vnc on winxp.As a test, while I give the address 127.0.0.1 for connection, what I get is a full opening of various windows non stop and many mouse cursors hovering around; and my entire screen become blue and I am forced to use ctrl + alt+ delete keys to get to the normal desk

Connection unexpectedly closed

2005-08-17 Thread Mike Thomas
I'm getting a "connection unexpectedly closed" message when attempting to connect from the internet. I turned off my Firewall but still get the message. Mike T ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http:

Re: vnc unable to connect

2005-08-17 Thread Nachtwind
vinod wadhawan schrieb: I recently installed vnc on winxp.As a test, while I give the address 127.0.0.1 for connection, what I get is a full opening of various windows non stop and many mouse cursors hovering around; and my entire screen become blue and I am forced to use ctrl + alt+ delete keys

RE: vnc unable to connect

2005-08-17 Thread John Aldrich
Vinod, there is a LOT of information which would be possible to give you, however, it might be best if you went and started browsing http://faq.gotomyvnc.com and see if that doesn't at least give you a starting point from which you can ask more specific questions. John -Original Messag

Re: Native Display Problem : Server PC frozen, viewer window went Black

2005-08-17 Thread Yat-sang Kwong
Hello, Wez: 1)I am using the latest version of vnc from RealVNC (Version 4.1.1). 2)I am ruuning the server on a Redhat 9 installation. The X Server is from the original RH 9 install CD. According to Redhat documentation, it is version 4.X. The first line on the XR86Config file also

display

2005-08-17 Thread Rabinowitz, Ethan
The perfect setting for the computer I use the viewer on is 1280 x 960, but the only video settings when using my viewer comp, are the settings for the server comp (which does not have 1280x960 as an option). Are there any plans for the viewer to be able to display via setting on the viewer comp,

Re: Native Display Problem : Server PC frozen, viewer window went Black

2005-08-17 Thread Adrian Phillips
> "Yat-sang" == Yat-sang Kwong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yat-sang> When I tried to share the native X display, I ran into Yat-sang> troubles. Please help. Yat-sang> On opening up the vncviewer to access the native desktop Yat-sang> 0 with "domainname:0", my vncviewer sh