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

2007-10-30 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: Inverted Video Anomoly

2007-10-30 Thread James Weatherall
> Personally, I've never managed to get video. I always > get a black area instead of the video, but I don't care much. > You have to know that VNC wasn't designed to serve video on the net. Legacy video applications sometimes use overlay rendering, which doesn't render the video into the

cursor pseudo-encoding

2007-10-30 Thread Peter Gough
The RealVNC Java viewer client does not render a text cursor (cursor in a text editor) correctly. I'm seeing 4 dots (1 at each corner of the standard vertical bar cursor used by both windows and linux). I'm connecting to a VMWare VNC server which uses RFB v3.3. I checked the received pixel data

Cascading screens

2007-10-30 Thread Jack Marcus
Hi, hoping somebody can help me. I am attempting to connect using Ultra VNC to a VNC machine. Both machines are running WIN XP sp2. When I connect from the Ultra VNC machine, I get prompted for the password, I enter it and then I get a continuous showing of cascading screens. Does anybody have