Firewall Blocking Outbound From Server?

2005-11-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a client who cannot connect to me using RealVNC (both client & server on Linux). We've tried this from his office and his Father's office, nearby. I'm running vncviewer: vncviewer -listen on my system, with my firewall set to forward port 5500 to my workstation, and it forwards port 8

Re: How does it work?

2005-11-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 21 November 2005 01:33 pm, Karen Malpass wrote: > Can it really be as simple as the web page describes Can we really > access our server - modify the files - and save them on the server - from > home- using this simple software? Yes, it is REALLY that simple. I'm using the free ver

Real VNC Speed

2005-12-02 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have worked with a few people who had TightVNC servers on their system, using either the TightVNC or RealVNC viewer on my system. Recently I've worked with some people using the RealVNC server (the latest version). Is it my imagination, or is the RealVNC server slower? Does it use compressi

Re: Real VNC Speed

2005-12-02 Thread Hal Vaughan
hen you think that something's changed. Thanks for the assurance! ;-) Hal > Regards, > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I have worked with a few people who had TightVNC servers on their system, > > using either the TightVNC or RealVNC viewer on my system.

Re: Real VNC Speed

2005-12-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 02 December 2005 02:35 pm, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have worked with a few people who had TightVNC servers on their system, > using either the TightVNC or RealVNC viewer on my system. Recently I've > worked with some people using the RealVNC server (the latest version)

Re: Real VNC Speed

2005-12-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 04 December 2005 02:58 pm, Rex Dieter wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I found that Real to Real gives me what *seems* to be an even faster > > connection than Tight to Real (at least a Tight Server & Real Viewer). > > When, when you said you had used Real, most

Stopping RealVNC

2005-12-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
I've asked this before, but never got an answer. I know that on Linux that once a RealVNC server is running, I can communicate with it with vncconfig. It seems that on Windows, I can communicate with the running RealVNC server with winvnc4.exe (like telling it to connect with a listening system

Re: Stopping RealVNC

2005-12-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 23 December 2005 08:14 am, William Hooper wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Is it possible to stop a RealVNC server on Linux from the command line, > > or any other way without "kill -9 $(pidof vncserver)" ? > > man vncserver > "-kill :display# &g

Re: Stopping RealVNC

2005-12-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 23 December 2005 08:14 am, William Hooper wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Is it possible to stop a RealVNC server on Linux from the command line, > > or any other way without "kill -9 $(pidof vncserver)" ? > > man vncserver > "-kill :display# &g

Re: Stopping RealVNC

2005-12-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 23 December 2005 10:31 am, John Aldrich wrote: > Under linux, it should be as simple as "vncserver -kill " Under > Windows NT, 2000 or XP, I do not know of any way to stop a server from the > command-line only. I'm sure there's a way, but I don't know what it is, > never having looked int

Attachments

2005-12-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
I sent through an e-mail earlier with a long description of how I solved a few problems and included 4 scripts (2 for Linux, 2 for Windows) since I thought it would help others. I haven't seen it come through yet. Are letters with attachments blocked on this list? If so, I'll resend with the

Re: VNC Start Up

2005-12-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 09:46 pm, Daniel Ringhiser wrote: > I had VNC 4 on my computer for a while and had no problems. very happy with > the service. Well I recently reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled > VNC, and now I can't get it to load on startup. if anyone knows how to do > this th

RealVNC Autoconnect & Stop Scripts For "Help Desk" Type Situations

2005-12-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
Linux Start RealVNC Connection- #!/bin/bash #--------- #VNCStart.bat #by Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] #Licensed under the GPL (General Pu

Re: Locked Out

2005-12-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 22 December 2005 03:25 pm, Marshall Moens wrote: >Hello, > >I made the mistake of locking my Windows XP Pro pc before going on >holida y. I suppose I thought VNC would allow me to log into the >computer. I am running VNC 4.1. Eveytime I try logging into

Re: Simple Question

2006-01-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 16 January 2006 04:33 pm, evil_ skull wrote: > hi everybody > > my question is : in which Prgramming language was RealVNC developed cause i > have a standards i need to check for ! > > so plz can anyone answer me If you are checking for standards, then you're going to need to read th

VNCViewer won't run on Debian Unstable

2006-01-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
I had to upgrade my workstation recently and am using Debian Unstable for several reasons. Basically, for this computer, using stable is not an option. I just reinstalled RealVNC. The server runs fine, but when I try to run vncviewer, I get this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ vncviewer vncviewer: er

Cannot Get Connection -- Could a firewall be blocking it?

2006-02-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
I've asked this before, in variations, and never gotten a response. I always wondered if it was just low traffic on the list or what. I figure this is a good time to re-ask it, since with all the discussion over quoting styles, there must be a lot of people reading the list now. I have a cli

Re: Cannot Get Connection -- Could a firewall be blocking it?

2006-02-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 10 February 2006 10:45, John Aldrich wrote: > Hal Vaughan scribbled on : > > I have a client who cannot connect to me using RealVNC (both client & > > server on Linux). B We've tried this from his office and his > > Father's office, nearby. B > >

Re: Netiquette request to all

2006-02-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 10 February 2006 10:00, John Aldrich wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Aldrich > > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:18 AM > > To: 'Stephen Fromm'; 'Jaroslaw Rafa'; vnc-list@realvnc.com > > Subject: RE: Netiquett

Re: Cannot Get Connection -- Could a firewall be blocking it?

2006-02-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 10 February 2006 10:57, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > Hal Vaughan napisal(a): > [Charset utf-8 unsupported, skipping...] > > > ports closed unless I'm working with a client). B On his system he's > > running vncserver and it is using display :1, s

Re: Cannot Get Connection -- Could a firewall be blocking it?

2006-02-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 10 February 2006 11:08, John Aldrich wrote: > Hal Vaughan scribbled on Friday, February 10, 2006 11:02 AM: > > Yes, I have another client that has no trouble connecting to me. > > > > Do you mean make sure they have those ports open on their system or > > fi

Wrapping or Disguising VNC Data to Look Like HTTP

2006-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
I brought up a point a week or two ago about a client's system that is behind a firewall and it appears this firewall (which we have no control over) is blocking his outbound VNC connection. I'm sure I'm not the only one with a problem like this, where it is important to work with a system behi

Re: Wrapping or Disguising VNC Data to Look Like HTTP

2006-02-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 19 February 2006 12:28, James Weatherall wrote: > Hal, > > GNU httptunnel should do what you want. > > Regards, > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. Thanks! That solves the problem for now. While reading it I realized the clients that have this problem now are both on Windows, so I'm looking for a s

Re: Wrapping or Disguising VNC Data to Look Like HTTP

2006-02-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 20 February 2006 08:36, John Aldrich wrote: > Hal Vaughan scribbled on : > > While reading it I realized the clients that have this > > problem now are both on > > Windows, so I'm looking for a similar program to use on > > Windows (I'm already >

Re: Wrapping or Disguising VNC Data to Look Like HTTP

2006-02-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 20 February 2006 14:29, Phil Budne wrote: > A firewall that allows HTTPS (HTTP over SSL) traffic has to be more > permissive, since it can't look inside the SSL'ed data. I think I > know some folks who managed to make use of an HTTP to HTTPS proxy for > RFB/VNC traffic. The remote "web

Re: Wrapping or Disguising VNC Data to Look Like HTTP

2006-02-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 03:17, Pablo J Royo wrote: > Hello Hal: > > Take a look to: > > http://spipe.sourceforge.net/concrete_example2.html > > I must admit it is not a usual solution , but it could be an option if your > web server is an 1.3.X Apache one and you have control over it. > What it

Re: Wrapping or Disguising VNC Data to Look Like HTTP

2006-02-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:52, Scott C. Best wrote: > Hal: > > Heya. Have you tried EchoVNC? It has support for HTTP, > SOCKS, and NTLM proxies. For the first two, it relies on the > CONNECT method, which not all web-proxies support. But if your > target connection is listening to TCP 443

VNC -- HTTPS Wrapper Found

2006-03-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
I asked about wrapping VNC signals in HTTP to get through a firewall that seems to block almost everything else. I've found a program, Stunnel, that seems to do the job, but I'm having a bit of trouble setting it up. Has anyone here used Stunnel? It turns out there is Stunnel and Stunnel4, wh

VNCConfig From The Command Line

2006-03-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
I need to set RealVNC (on Windows) so it will only accept connections from the localhost (yes, I'm tunneling, as mentinoed in 2 previous threads). I know if I run: vncconfig.exe --localhost=true It will change the settings to do what I need. However this also opens the config window and keep

Re: VNCConfig From The Command Line

2006-03-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
everything is as secure as possible for them so they don't have to think about this. Hal > Regards, > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Vaughan > > Sent: 07 March 2

VNC From CD

2006-03-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm dealing with situations where I'll be working on some other computers without RealVNC on them, both Windows and Linux. I'm looking at using PuTTY (or Plink -- forgot which works best at the moment, but both are stand alone binaries) to create a connection back to my home/office system, and

Re: VNC From CD

2006-03-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 13:30, Andrew Borland wrote: > I think you'll find that the VNC client is a stand-alone binary and > can be run from just about anything. Do you know if the VNC server is stand alone? It looks like it on Linux, but I can't tell on Windows. I'm going to have to copy th

Re: VNC From CD

2006-03-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 13:52, Kelly F. Hickel wrote: > Digg strikes again! Here's link to the digg story about a portable > putty. > http://www.digg.com/software/PortaPuTTY_-_Portable_Putty_for_USB Thanks! Now if I can get a static version of PuTTY -- or at least plink for Linux, I'd ha

Re: VNC From CD

2006-03-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 23 March 2006 08:39, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > Hal Vaughan napisal(a): > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > > Now if I can get a static version of PuTTY -- or at least plink for > > Linux, I'd have it solved. > > Why do yo

Re: VNC From CD

2006-03-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:52, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > Hal Vaughan napisal(a): > > > Why do you need "PuTTY or plink for Linux"? > > > Virtually every version of Linux has a ssh client - and this is > > > exactly what PuTTY and plink are - built in... >

Re: VNC From CD

2006-03-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 23 March 2006 13:15, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > Hal Vaughan napisal(a): > > > So, what's the problem with using one command name ("plink") in > > > the Windows batch file and another ("ssh") in the Linux shell > > > script? Because pro

Re: VNC From CD (Hal Vaughan)

2006-03-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
person managing the list at > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > >than "Re: Contents of VNC-List digest..." > > > > > >Today's Topics: > > > >1. VNC From

VNCViewer in Listen Mode -- Probably Obvious Socket Question

2006-03-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
When I run: vncviewer -listen 5501 Am I correct that it opens a server socket on port 5501 that is waiting for connections? Does that mean if I have a forwarding program on the same system, it can open a client socket connecting to that same port and it'll connect with vncviewer? I know the

Info on C Libraries that RealVNC Uses

2006-05-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
I am trying to install RealVNC on a number of different systems that we'll be using. There's no problem with Windows, but on Linux, on a number of systems ask for libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3. On my system, that file is a symlink to libstdc++-3-libc6.2-2-2.10.0.so. As I understand that, it means

Re: Info on C Libraries that RealVNC Uses

2006-05-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
> > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Vaughan > > Sent: 18 May 2006 07:07 > > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com > > Subject: Info on C Libraries that RealVNC Uses > &g

Static Binaries for Linx

2006-05-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
Has anyone successfully build static binaries for RealVNC on Linux? If so, I'd be interested in hearing about it and any tips they might have. Thanks! Hal ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://ww

Specifying Config Files

2006-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
I notice when vncserver is run, if there is no set of config files in ~/.vnc, the directory and config files are created, including asking for a password. Is there any way to specify for vnc to use a set of config files elsewhere? This would mean each user gets the same config and same passwo

Building Static Binaries For Linux?

2006-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
I tried sending this last night and it never went through. I'm having trouble because I need to be able to get RealVNC working on different Linux systems and the requirement for libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is a problem, since it isn't on all systems. I don't want to create a program to automatica

Re: VNC-List digest, Vol 1 #1769 - 3 msgs -List Running?

2006-05-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
Sorry to post by responding to a post, but there seems to be a bit of a problem. I've posted a couple questions over the weekend and never saw them show, and there seem to be responses coming through to posts I have not seen. Has the list server been down? Is there a reason I would not see my

Re: Why isn't RealVNC included with Linux distributions?

2006-05-31 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 29 May 2006 18:03, Curt Cox wrote: > Hi, > > I'm curious why RealVNC isn't included in many (any?) Linux > distributions. Generally one or more RFB clients and servers are > included, but I've never seen RealVNC. Can anybody shed some light > on the situation? I only use the Debian Net

Re: vnc security flaw?

2006-06-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 13:15, Dave Dyer wrote: > It's really not realistic or reasonable to expect every PC user to be > their own ever-vigilant security expert. Yes and no. It depends on how important security is to you. As pointed out, the flaw was posted on this list. I find that just re

Re: vnc security flaw?

2006-06-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 16:40, Dave Dyer wrote: > >> 2) word should have been passed to norton, mcaffee, etc so they > >> could target vulnerable versions of vnc on behalf of their > >> customers. I don't know if this mechanism exists, but it ought to. > > > >This one is never going to happen for c

Re: VNC .vs Msoft Terminal Server

2006-06-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 08:46, Beauford, Jason wrote: > Not in the "REAL" version, but it is available in the "ULTRA" > version. > > Also, another benefit of VNC is CONSOLE access. When you log on via > TS, you get your own new session and you cannot control the CONSOLE > session. With VNC, you

Re: Windows XP <-> Suse10.0 Linux oddity

2006-07-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 21 July 2006 01:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed VNC on my XP and Linux boxes at home. I started a > server on both. I was able to view my XP box from my linux box, but > I was not able to view my Linux box from my XP box. When I attempted > to connect through