Message for VNC team due to absence of contact info.

2005-08-15 Thread Alex Pelts
Hi, I have been using realvnc software for a while and lately I am using it a lot. It always have been very reliable and high quality even during att days. Now I am trying to purchase the enteprise version of the software for one feature - mirror screen driver. I have tried ultra vnc with it'

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: unable to connect to all hosts - connection timed out ( 10060)

2005-08-24 Thread Alex Pelts
You can use netcat to diagnose this. Most likely your firewall is not configured correctly or windows firewall is on for these machines. Alex Mike Thomas wrote: Exact same error message I've been having for weeks. No idea how to solve--sorry. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to login in to VNC EE support

2005-08-31 Thread Alex Pelts
Hi, I purchased VNC EE software but purchasing department received a key and a reference number. Now I have the key, the reference number but no original purchaser's email. Is there any way to contact VNC team to figure out how to login in to the support site? EE for windows is great by the

Re: How to login in to VNC EE support

2005-09-01 Thread Alex Pelts
ready for release, and hope to provide a beta-release shortly. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Pelts Sent: 31 August 2005 19:21 To: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: How to login in to VNC EE support Hi, I

Re: Black screen

2005-09-02 Thread Alex Pelts
Most likely you are using VPN and MTU is too large. Lower MTU on your VPN adapter to 1300 which should be safe. If you want more performance you need to use trial and error to select the best MTU that works. Could take you a few hours because every time you change MTU you need to reboot. Thank

Re: Screen Blanking on a vnc connection

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Pelts
Although it may not work for you powering down monitor at remote PC works for me :) If you want to use it just power it up, after you done power it down. Saves energy in the process as well. Alex Lorin Goodman wrote: Is there a way to enable the screen of the host to go blank when you connec

Re: Using SSH ...

2005-10-10 Thread Alex Pelts
There are many links if you search the web. One example is http://web.mit.edu/pismere/ssh/vnc-over-ssh.html Thanks, Alex Dean Huffman wrote: . Is there a good URL that contains a tutorial on how to set up SSH for VNC? I have been trying to figure out the system and it appears that one comp

Re: VNC Authentication Failed

2005-10-10 Thread Alex Pelts
I had once experience where ip of the server I was trying to connect to was one digit off and I was hitting another server with VNC. I spent about an hour believing that I am hitting the right ip and trying to figure out why authentication is failing. Make sure that you are hitting the right s

Re: Question abt VNC to a computer on VPN

2005-10-17 Thread Alex Pelts
If it is a windows based vpn (PPTP) you may fix your problem if you disable "Use default gateway on remote network" setting. Although you need to modify routing tables to route packets correctly when connected to the vpn. I have a shell script that I run every time after connecting to the vpn.

Re: Linksys WRV54G

2005-10-25 Thread Alex Pelts
So your IP is on subnet 138162.2.xxx which is a private subnet. When you connect ot VPN your computer will get another address from VPN side. What is that address? The external IP address of your vpn gateway does not matter in this case. Alex Dean Richardson wrote: I appreciate the informat

Re: What on Earth is Session Zero?

2005-11-01 Thread Alex Pelts
Do you by any chance have cisco vpn client installed? If you do, check if firewall checkbox is unchecked. If it is checked, firewall is active even when vpn connection is not. Thanks, Alex Stephen wrote: - Original Message - From: "William Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesd

Re: using a single viewer for multiple servers

2005-11-01 Thread Alex Pelts
Just want to point out that if VNC client is minimized it will not consume any bandwidth. So only visible clients will consume bandwidth. Thanks, Alex evets dranem wrote: Boudreaux, Mark wrote: I tried looking but I haven't seen this topic addressed. I want to use VNC in a classroom setti

Re: Howto have simultaneous sessions on windows 2003 server ???

2005-11-03 Thread Alex Pelts
VNC does not provide functionality similar to terminal server. It only remotes the screen and keyboard. On unix-like oses it runs as xserver so you can do this by running multiple vncserver instances. On windows it does not work this way. You will need to use terminal server license and softwar

Re: Can't Connect

2005-11-09 Thread Alex Pelts
There is also possibility that your company is blocking all ports going out, except some. For instance port 80 and 21 are allowed but anything else is blocked. You can verify this by telnetting to a different ports. If port is blocked you may get a long timeout. If it is not blocked you will get

Re: Mirror Driver

2005-11-14 Thread Alex Pelts
That is a different driver. It is written by VNC team or for VNC team by some third party. To make use of it you need to get Enterprise Edition. I did and I have no regrets! It is great, can't say enough good things about it! I work over VNC all the time, in fact it is my primary method of wor

Re: copy and paste between windows and linux

2005-11-23 Thread Alex Pelts
Copy/paste is a server/client settings. Both must be set to cooperate. There is also appication dependendency as not every X app can take things from clipboard. What application are you using, that fails to receive data? Thanks, Alex Felix Steffenhagen wrote: Hello @all, I have a problem w

Re: Not able to finish VNC installation for a SUN Solaris 2.6 workstation

2005-12-16 Thread Alex Pelts
And "this" error would be? Thanks, Alex Marin Angulo, Osvaldo wrote: Hi there, I'm an UNIX system administrator and I am trying to install VNC for Solaris 2.6, but I'm getting this error when running "make" and I don't know what it could be. I was wondering if you can let me know what is the

Re: Putty works, but VNC doesn't

2005-12-19 Thread Alex Pelts
Try use Putty to connect with Raw protocol to these servers to port 5900. If you get connection refused, your vnc servers are not running or running on another port. In that case use netstat to figure out what port they are running on. If you get a connection and and sometning like "RFB 004.000

Re: IP Address

2005-12-21 Thread Alex Pelts
It is probably in the registry on windows. On unix it should be in some file as there is not registry (tahnks god and some smart people for that). So I guess you are out of luck with the file. Of course if you want to do mass deployment you can always write a script that imports some entries in

Re: Transfer Files

2005-12-21 Thread Alex Pelts
Although it is off topick you can use filezilla ftp server/client pair. They are pretty good. You can also use other flavors of VNC but the vnc portion of them is not so good IMHO. If you want one port solution that is secure ssh+sftp should do the job. Thanks, Alex Mark Pan wrote: Hi, How

Re: Accessing multiple VNC Servers from outside a firewall

2005-12-29 Thread Alex Pelts
Setup port forwarding on 2 ports. 5900 and 5901. Make servers listen on these ports and you are all set. Alex Neil Womack wrote: Hello all, I'm looking for a way to set up access to two of my servers from home. Both servers are running VNC Server on the same subnet and in the same domain, a

Re: Painful networking situation - Connection Reset By Peer

2005-12-29 Thread Alex Pelts
I bet it is MTU problem. MTU for your VPN connection is larger than your network which is causing a lot of dropped packets. Adjust mtu to be about 1300 for all vpn connections and problem may go away. Regards, Alex Joe Stanton wrote: Hello, this is my first post... I have been using the VN

Re: Sessions disappear

2006-01-04 Thread Alex Pelts
There is a inactivity timeout which is set to 1 hour by default. Regards, Alex Hagedorn, Dan N wrote: I have a RH 9 box running VNC 4.1.1 from the console. Sessions just disappear when they are unattended. Anyone know what might be causing this? Thanks. Dan Hagedorn _

Re: ISO8859-2 characters problem - again

2006-01-05 Thread Alex Pelts
Not to sound like a jerk or anything like that, but if you can not justify EE purchase you have 3 options: 1. Hack the code of free edition to fix whatever you are not happy with. 2. Wait until the next version of VNC and hope that changes from EE will propagate in to free edition. They always d

Re: VNC Server Behind the NAT

2006-01-10 Thread Alex Pelts
Most people do not read the FAQ as well as do not search the mailing list archives or google or any other source of information. This question was aksed and answered probably 1000 times since VNC has been around. Google Results 1 - 10 of about 53,300 for "VNC behind nat". (0.28 seconds) Regar

Re: VNC enterprise eats a lot of bandwith.

2006-01-16 Thread Alex Pelts
I can't help you, but I can tell you that I use VNC EE 4.1.9 on the PC that streams live video from a capture card to my other machine over the internet. It works just fine. I am sure that I used 4.1.7 with the same result. Try upgrading first, then you probably need to characterize the problem

Re: Bandwidth Question

2006-01-17 Thread Alex Pelts
Press F8 and select connection info. You can see what your bandwidth is. You can establish as many sessions as you want if you keep them all minimized. Regards, Alex evil_ skull wrote: i have a 64K leased line and the connection is established... line...my question is that i want to know th

Re: Remote Desktop [Re]Size

2006-03-04 Thread Alex Pelts
Bill, If you set full screen you will be able to scroll with moving mouse to the edge of the screen. If you set your monitor resolution to be larger than your friends you will see the whole screen. Else get personal edition which can scale for you. Regards, Alex Bill Chubb wrote: I assis

Re: Yet another VPN issue.

2006-03-20 Thread Alex Pelts
Most likely you have a MTU issue. Try lowering your MTU on the VPN device on dell. Usually vpn software comes with the utility to change the mtu. Change it to something like 1300 and see if it makes any difference. Regards, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, please bear with me as my questio

Re: Server license key is missing, invalid or has expired

2006-04-22 Thread Alex Pelts
It is not free but well worth paying for if you use VNC a lot. Mirror driver does help a great deal. Alex Brian Rupnick wrote: I'm running VNC Server Personal Edition 4.1.3 on my home laptop. When I try to connect to it, I get the following message: Server license key is missing, invali

Re: Why no "Personal" version for Linux?

2006-04-24 Thread Alex Pelts
I think the biggest useful difference between free version and personal version is the mirror driver. On linux there is no such thing as vnc hooks directly in to X or acts as X server. Performance is great without any special tricks. As far as encryption goes SSH provides this without any extr

Re: Why no "Personal" version for Linux?

2006-04-24 Thread Alex Pelts
, something like Zebedee will work well for you. http://www.winton.org.uk/zebedee/ Alex John Aldrich wrote: Alex Pelts wrote on Monday, April 24, 2006 12:11 PM: I think the biggest useful difference between free version and personal version is the mirror driver. On linux there is no such thing

Re: VNC freezing on Win XP Media Center Edition SP2

2006-04-24 Thread Alex Pelts
MTU is too large on your vpn connection. Regards, Alex S B wrote: Hi, I just bought a new computer from Dell (Intel dual core 2.8GHz, 1GB RAM running Win XP Media Center w/ SP2), and downloaded VNC 4.4 viewer on it. When I VNC to my work machine, VNC viewer freezes intermittently. Some times

Re: VNC freezing on Win XP Media Center Edition SP2

2006-04-25 Thread Alex Pelts
, Alex James Weatherall wrote: Hi Alex, Can you provide any more information on why that causes the effect SB is seeing? Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Pelts Sent: 25 April 2006 07:07 To: S B Cc: vnc

Re: VNC freezing on Win XP Media Center Edition SP2

2006-04-26 Thread Alex Pelts
P. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Pelts Sent: 25 April 2006 19:14 To: James Weatherall Cc: 'S B'; vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: VNC freezing on Win XP Media Center Edition SP2 The VPN has

Re: VNC freezing on Win XP Media Center Edition SP2

2006-04-26 Thread Alex Pelts
indicating the MTU correctly to the two ends of the connection, resulting in TCP splitting the data stream into chunks that are too large for the VPN. Your best bet is therefore to contact your VPN vendor for support for their product. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. -Original Message----- F

Re: VNC freezing on Win XP Media Center Edition SP2

2006-05-02 Thread Alex Pelts
The exact step is to match MTU of your VPN to MTU of your physical network. Unfortunately there are no automated tools. Safe way is to make your VPN MTU 1300, which is smaller than an average physical network MTU. Regards, Alex S B wrote: Alex, On 4/26/06, Alex Pelts <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: 4.2 Release Notes: Improved VNC mirror driver performance.

2006-05-05 Thread Alex Pelts
I have been using it and it seems to be better a bit. Regards, Alex Gross, Michael wrote: Hi, well, VNC mirror driver performance was improved. And where to find this driver? I mean, if performance was improved, it simply must exist ;-) rgds, Michael

Re: vnc security

2006-05-11 Thread Alex Pelts
google is you friend (maybe if they don't cooperate with federal government too much.) Regards, Alex Eric wrote: Is there a good FAQ or HOWTO on ssh with vnc? what is the url Thanks - Original Message - From: "John Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'-Paul'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; S

That was quick!

2006-05-12 Thread Alex Pelts
I guess the new free version of RealVNC 4.1.2 fixes the security problem that mentioned earlier on this list (and slashdot). Get it quick if you are exposing VNC server to the internet without or any other vpn software. Alex ___ VNC-List mailing li

Re: Memory leak in VNC 4.2?

2006-05-16 Thread Alex Pelts
I have been running EE for weeks at the time on windows xp and no leaks are noticed. I think this is issue specific to you machine or Win2K. Regards, Alex voor wrote: Has anyone noticed the winvnc4.exe (in server mode) process taking up more and more RAM after a client has connected to it? I

Re: New to the List and a Question

2006-05-30 Thread Alex Pelts
Server is the one who serves the display, client is the one who views the display. It is opposite of X where server is the one that shows the display and clients connect and show their windows on the server. Hope this helps. Alex Jeff Koke wrote: Hello! I am glad to be a part of a great lea

Re: Just got Hacked through VNC?

2006-06-01 Thread Alex Pelts
Peter, The fix was out the next day after problem was announced. It was excellent as far as I am concerned. If you did not upgrade, how is this software quality fault? These things happen, software has bugs, but you need to upgrade promptly. If you are running VNC exposed to the Internet is i

Re: vnc security flaw?

2006-06-06 Thread Alex Pelts
Dave, The fix was posted next day after the flaw was discovered. At that time there was no exploits or they were not prevalent. I am not so sure what VNC team could do to better inform people. Discovery of flaw was published on slashdot and this list. I am not trying to tell that this is your fault

Re: vnc security flaw?

2006-06-07 Thread Alex Pelts
Dave Dyer wrote: > 1) vnc should maintain it's own list, reserved for security flash > alerts only, and strongly encourage anyone who installs vnc > to sign up. That is not such a bad idea but this security problem only happened once since I started using VNC(as far as I recall), and I started usi

Re: vnc security flaw?

2006-06-07 Thread Alex Pelts
> I don't think you can, by any means, compare your proposition to an > antivirus solution. The complexities of protecting a person from > protecting their own ignorance, not in a demeaning sense, are so > multifaceted. It would literally be impossible to stay on top of every > single threat, and t

Re: vnc security flaw?

2006-06-07 Thread Alex Pelts
Well, Let say if you pay money to Symantec why don't you ask them to protect your pc? What is RealVNC has to do with it? I pay money to RealVNC people for EE and I got my email notifying me about security update. So I have no beef with RealVNC as they provide the service I pay for. I think 2) wil

Re: vnc security flaw?

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Pelts
just these should be sufficient answer to your question. Regards, Alex Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > Alex Pelts napisal(a): > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] >> IMHO running VNC server exposed to the Internet is a bad idea in the >> first place. > > Why? > Wh

Re: NAT-to-NAT solution?

2006-06-13 Thread Alex Pelts
Two words - rinetd. Just google for it. You can compile it and redirect any port to any port. You can also port it to any os that is unix-like. Not sure though about symbian. Regards, Alex lim wrote: > That doesn't help, since VNC server is on SymbianOS. > > 2006/6/12, John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROT

Re: password bug on vnc 4.2 (last release 12 may 2006) Free Edition

2006-07-09 Thread Alex Pelts
Everybody does. In fact it is described in documentation as a feature. Regards, Alex Andris Falcsn wrote: Hi, there. Yesterday I was sitted on my chair doing some test with my vnc and I discover a serious bug in the password request. This is the scenario: 2 desktop computer over internet b

Re: wishlist for vnc

2006-07-18 Thread Alex Pelts
There is no need for vnc to have direct socket connection. You can listen only to loopback interface and connect using ssh. Regards, Alex Ed Peschko wrote: hey all, I was wondering - does vnc have a wishlist that is maintained somewhere? Either that, or a developer's list where users could

Re: Request - Connection logging

2006-08-01 Thread Alex Pelts
There is logging already. VNC server logs in to windows application log. Regards, Alex Jimmy wrote: Hello! Must say that I love VNC; handiest program ever! But I've just recently come across an idea that could be helpful. I've just had some random attempt to VNC me.I asked the one person w

Re: Request - Connection logging

2006-08-01 Thread Alex Pelts
ControlPanel/Administrative Tools/Event Viewer. Look in application logs for WinVNC. Regards, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you find this windowns application log? Glenda Harris From: "Alex Pelts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2006/08/01 Tue AM 11:39:59 EDT To: "Jim

Is is possible to compile latest VNC server with older X say 3.3.6?

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Pelts
Hi, I am trying to compile latest vnc on older freebsd but it does not compile. Did anyone try to do this? That version of bsd has vnc 3.3.7 which compiles. Any pointers where to look? Regards, Alex ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To

Re: Noobie question

2006-08-14 Thread Alex Pelts
Jimmy, It would help a bit if you could describe your parents network configuration. Is there a router? What is the OS? Is it cable or dsl? A lot of times cable or dsl modems have routers and firewalls built-in. The other option is - your parents could invite you in - vnc server has "add new

Re: Noobie question

2006-08-14 Thread Alex Pelts
rk (set up by IT of course, so I just point and click), and it is perfect for getting on the render boxes, and tooling around. It's a great program, just trying to get it to work for my purposes. Thanks a lot. /*JIMMY GASS* *DESIGNER | COMPOSITOR*/ <http://www.janimation.com>

Re: keystroke spewage

2006-08-15 Thread Alex Pelts
Brian, It would be interesting to try if you can connect from inside of the network using the same client. This will eliminate possible vpn problems. This is the problem I have never heard of. Also is it possible to use X server to connect to that RH box? U can use free x server of the Intern

Re: Control a PC without graphic card?

2006-09-11 Thread Alex Pelts
You probably would need a card unless there is a simulation driver somewhere. Regards, Alex Aredor wrote: Hi, I've searched and found an similar topic in "headless PC..." but it didn't lead me to a solution, so I hope you can help. My reason for using VNC is that my graphic card isn't worki

Re: Local Hard Disk Access?

2006-09-15 Thread Alex Pelts
VNC Enterprise Edition does that but you need to pay for it. Regards, Alex Jeff Kraeger wrote: Is VNC capable of accessing local hard disks on the client machine while being remotely connected to a PC at work? Often times I will want to copy files from my PC at work (remotely connected) to my

Re: New to VNC List...

2006-10-09 Thread Alex Pelts
This came up at least 100 times. You are running VNC version 4.1.1 or earlier which had a security problem allowing attacker to login without a password. The update was posted few days after the problem was discovered but it seems that no one bothers to update. You need to redeploy the latest

Re: RealVNC 4.1.2 does not work with MacOS 10.4.8

2006-10-10 Thread Alex Pelts
It probably has nothing to do with vnc but everything to do with your vpn configuration. Try adjusting MTU. Regards, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I discovered that a RealVNC 4.1.2 client on WinXP cannot connect to a VNC server running on a MacOS 10.4.8. Initially it connects, and it takes f

Re: Unexpectedly terminated - would you like to try again?

2006-10-11 Thread Alex Pelts
You know that when you tunneling you actually have to connect to the localhost instead of remote machine? What is exact procedure that you follow when you tunneling? Regards, Alex Mick wrote: Hi All, Perhaps this has been answered before, but I couldn't find the answer in the ML. I am unab

Re: Unexpectedly terminated - would you like to try again?

2006-10-11 Thread Alex Pelts
protocol number of vnc server. If telnet does not work VNC will not work as well. I tunneled VNC trough SSH many times without any problems. Regards, Alex Mick wrote: On 11/10/06, Alex Pelts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Perhaps this has been answere

Re: SelectObject to CompatibleDC Failed: The operation completed successfully

2006-10-11 Thread Alex Pelts
I was able to full-screen a dos prompt and vnc stopped working although did not disconnect. Then I blindly pressed alt-enter and vnc came back. So you can get out of the situation of accidentally pressing alt-enter. I did not try to disconnect and reconnect as I am working remotely now and coul

Re: RealVNC 4.1.2 does not work with MacOS 10.4.8

2006-10-19 Thread Alex Pelts
Since mac osx is bsd based you can easy compile the existing vnc server for unix. Regards, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just as a quick follow-up on my previous email: I found a good VNC server for Mac OSX (OSXvnc V1.71) here: www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/index.html (I couldn't

Re: RealVNC 4.1.2 does not work with MacOS 10.4.8

2006-10-20 Thread Alex Pelts
, not standard Mac applications. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Pelts Sent: 19 October 2006 21:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: RealVNC 4.1.2 does not work with MacOS 10.4.8

Re: Password Switch

2006-10-23 Thread Alex Pelts
You can save settings in the file and click on the file instead of viewer. Regards, Alex Jason Isley wrote: Is there a way to setup a Windows computer to start up the viewer with the password already provided so you don't have to type it in every time? _

Re: help about "reading version failed: not an RFB server?"

2006-11-03 Thread Alex Pelts
Under win xp you can run "netstat -a -o". That will give you pid of process which owns each connection. From there you can run task manager and find out who opened that connection. On unix there is a similar facility although switches are different and you need to be root to do it. Regards, Al

Re: help about "reading version failed: not an RFB server?"

2006-11-03 Thread Alex Pelts
ted in the Task Manager quite strange isn't it?! On 11/3/06, *Alex Pelts* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Under win xp you can run "netstat -a -o". That will give you pid of process which owns each connection. From there you can

Re: help about "reading version failed: not an RFB server?"

2006-11-03 Thread Alex Pelts
must have been running X or other applications as a root and you allowed it to install, or run some unchecked binary. If this were my system I would *definitely* reinstall, after using shred on the partitions. Good luck. On Friday 03 November 2006 18:35, Alex Pelts wrote: This is possibly

Re: VNC Help

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Pelts
Search trough archives of this list. This or similar to this problem was reported countless times. Your vnc server was exploited trough known security hole. Fix for this was posted over half year ago. Regards, Alex Craig Fitt wrote: Hi Guys If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.

Re: Sound

2006-12-01 Thread Alex Pelts
Teamspeak. We use to play games and I believe it is free. You need to do some setup though. Alex d.randle wrote: I'm a newbie at vnc, but have deduced that vnc does not support sound in any (meaningful to me) way. I work in a school where vnc is used in the ict suite to enable teachers to

Re: VNC Enterprise Edition...

2006-12-11 Thread Alex Pelts
Both of these are possible. To do 1 you need to configure client list in the server access control. To do 2 you need to un-tick "share files with clients" check box in the inputs tab. Alex Binny John wrote: Dear James, We are using the VNC4 Enterprise Edition on 30 days trial basis, Which we

Re: mutliple user access of vncserver

2007-01-05 Thread Alex Pelts
There is no limit as far as I know. You just need to tick appropriate configuration option. When connecting in options misc tab select "Shared Connection" when second person is connecting. Or on the server in Sharing tab select "Always treat as shared" option. Alex Jimmy Jiang wrote: Hi,

Re: my realvnc was hacked

2007-02-09 Thread Alex Pelts
1. Google for the exe files but most likely you will not get much. To remove them run antivirus package (Antivir is free and good). Before running it disable system restore in case the files are in windows directory. 2. Subscribe to vnc-announce-list to which this sort of information is posted.

Re: VNC Setup

2007-02-12 Thread Alex Pelts
You don't neet to change VNC port if your router can forward any port to any other port (a lot of routers do). Just install vnc as usual and forward ports from the router to different ip addresses. 5900 - IP1:5900 5901 - IP2:5900 5902 - IP3:5900 etc. Alex Jeff Glaspie wrote: This is what I

Re: LZMA compression

2007-02-12 Thread Alex Pelts
Does vnc accumulate dictionary between frame updates? I would think not because you would not be able to join an existing session. Also things vnc compresses are mostly flat color surfaces which compress well with most any method. I found most slowness during vnc session on windows comes not from

Re: LZMA compression

2007-02-12 Thread Alex Pelts
I did not know that single stream was maintained. How do new clients join the session? Is dictionary replicated when new client joins the session? Text compresses well because it is just black on white. Multicolored backgrounds do not but if you running vnc you should turn all of these off.

Protocol 3.8 vs 4.0

2007-03-04 Thread Alex Pelts
Hi, I compiled RealVNC 4.1.2 on FreeBSD 4.5 for my wife to use. I noticed that when I connect to it viewer reports protocol 3.8. On the other hand when I connect to EE which I use for my work viewer reports protocol 4.0. What are the differences between these two versions? Is version 4.0 supp

Re: Protocol 3.8 vs 4.0

2007-03-05 Thread Alex Pelts
; server are interoperable. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Pelts Sent: 05 March 2007 04:34 To: RealVNC List (E-mail) Subject: Protocol 3.8 vs 4.0 Hi, I compiled RealVNC 4.1.2 on FreeBSD 4.5 for my wife t

What happened with realvnc.com website?

2007-03-13 Thread Alex Pelts
I go there and get to some isp site which is half broken. Is anyone else experiences this? Regards, Alex ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: Displaying Video over Windows VNC

2007-04-20 Thread Alex Pelts
Video is displayed on directx surface which is not picked up by free version of vnc. If you use personal/enterprise edition of vnc with mirror driver you will get video. IMHO, is it a bad idea, as it takes a lot of cpu/bandwidth. You will be better off using something like vlc to stream video o

Re: screen slowww

2007-04-25 Thread Alex Pelts
If you use vpn check MTU settings. Make sure your VPN interface MTU is less than physical interface MTU. Just set it to 1300 to try it out. Regards, Alex dennis barton wrote: I have two machines on the same home network, connected thru a router. VNC free seems to work, but each screen redraw

Re: VNC questions

2007-04-26 Thread Alex Pelts
1. Does VNC have an audit trail to log a VNC users remote control activity ? No. You can track login attempts but nothing else. 2. Can a VNC user disable the need for the receiving computer to have to allow the caller access. That is can the caller take remote control of a computer without th

Re: Allow Multiple Passwords

2007-04-30 Thread Alex Pelts
That would be a useless patch so no one would do it. VNC has separate password management from os and anyone who logged in would be able to change the password. I would just make up some password and use it. That said, if you use vnc enterprise edition you can authenticate your sessions using

Re: Is there a way to know how many viewers are connected to the same vncserver?

2007-05-29 Thread Alex Pelts
The vnc ee shows every ip connected. Not sure about free version. Alex ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

Re: VNCServer configuration

2007-06-17 Thread Alex Pelts
Vnc does not work like this. You will need to run multiple instances of vnc server, which is X server. This will quickly bring performance of your host down. Vnc designed to access one instance of X server remotely it is nothing like a windows terminal server as far as user environment is concer

Re: VNCServer configuration

2007-06-18 Thread Alex Pelts
rver session. if you have mulitple users, each user won't know the port to use when logging in. also, how do you setup vncserver to use the underlying system user/passwd... thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Pelts Sent: Sunday, J

Re: VNCServer configuration

2007-06-18 Thread Alex Pelts
esources vncconfig -nowin & if [ "`uname`" = "Linux" ] then /usr/bin/startkde & else /usr/dt/bin/Xsession & sleep 30 xset s blank fi Hope that this helps- Best Regards- Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: VNCServer configuration

2007-06-18 Thread Alex Pelts
Behalf Of Alex Pelts Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 7:05 PM To: bruce Cc: 'Boger, Mike'; vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: VNCServer configuration One can write web management front end that would start a server and publish its screen number. Or maybe you can run bunch of them and tell

Re: silent install.

2007-06-19 Thread Alex Pelts
Try this tool: http://www.realvnc.com/products/vnctool/ Alex Federico chaves wrote: Hi everyone, Is there a way to make a silent instalation of the VNC entreprise edition 4.2.9? is there a way to make that this instalation have all the configuration option i need? Thnaks for you

Re: VNC.exe disappears

2007-06-20 Thread Alex Pelts
This appears to be some sort of trojan behavior. Normal vnc does not do this. Mark Mazzitello wrote: James - I came across this discussion thread while searching for info related to this issue. I signed up for the discussion list but I could not figure out how to continue or add to an existin

Re: vncviewer fullscreen problem in Linux/Unix client

2007-06-27 Thread Alex Pelts
I dont know if there is a bug but this is very old version of vnc so even if there is a bug no one will fix it. You can probably upgrade to the latest and see if that works. Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm running vncviewer v3.3.7 under Ubuntu Linux. I use the -fullscreen option,

Re: Run VNC on Power Up

2007-08-10 Thread Alex Pelts
Run it in a service mode: go to vnc server (service mode ) and select register as a service. It is well described in the document. Alex Stan Rackley wrote: Can anyone help me configure VNC so that it runs automatically when I power up my pc? Stan Rackley _

Re: XP Black screen Fix

2007-08-15 Thread Alex Pelts
If you are connecting through vpn, your vpn mtu is too large. This is common problem. VNC appears to be sensitive to the packet loss more than say a browser. Somehow you have large packet loss on this connection. Alex Fionn 101 wrote: Hi All, I have been having a lot of black screen proble

Re: "Block remote input on local activity" option in RealVNC

2007-08-19 Thread Alex Pelts
You can change settings on the server not to accept inputs from remote clients but that is about it. You can use something like autoit to make a script that does this and also re-enables the inputs. Alex j t wrote: Hi all. I have a question regarding the RealVNC server (I'm currently using

Re: removing icon

2007-09-30 Thread Alex Pelts
I think this needs to be first question in FAQ on vnc website. The answer is no. Regards, Alex Andrew Meyer wrote: Is there a way to remove the vnc icon from the task bar? ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the li

Re: How can I define my own shortcut key?

2007-10-11 Thread Alex Pelts
I use F8-m to minimize vnc and then you can use existing controls to switch between windows. Alex Jerome R. Westrick wrote: On Wednesday 10 October 2007 03:07:04 Animesh Pathak wrote: hi guys, i have been using real vnc for quite sometime now and started to realize the need of a keyboard sh

Re: Determining License Key for any given PC

2007-10-12 Thread Alex Pelts
Key is stored in the registry on windows and in the file on linux. Original Email We use VNC - free edition on a number of computers. We recently restructured our company and are having to make sure every thing is registered under the proper names/entities. We are trying to find out how to

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