Re: DoS attack VNC 4.0

On Wed Aug 25 23:49:00 2004, b kwok wrote: Want to verify and confirm if this attack sucess by sending more than 60 connections request to VNC server on windows platforms, any fix for that? http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-08/1068.html I hope this will be fixed soon. I

Re: DoS attack VNC 4.0

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Ran Sasson wrote: As said numerous times before (along the years of VNC..) : http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html http://www.realvnc.com/swish-e/search/vnc-list?pos=0&action=search&query=SSH http://www.realvnc.com/swish-e/search/vnc-list?pos=0&action=search&qu

RE: DoS attack VNC 4.0

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, James Weatherall wrote: The upcoming VNC Server Enterprise Edition ( http://www.realvnc.com/products/enterprise/ ) includes protection from this and a class of similar but more advanced attacks. This protection will also be included in the next VNC Server 4 GPL release. I

Re: DoS attack VNC 4.0

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, William Hooper wrote: Mike Miller said: [snip] I'm not understanding this. Take Linux for example - suppose I use SSH port forwarding, but VNC is still there on port 5901. Port 5901 is firewalled off from everything but localhost. The only way to cause the issue then

Re: DoS attack VNC 4.0

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, William Hooper wrote: People will choose convenience over security no matter what you do. It will be better, of course, to work SSH into the VNC product I disagree. Encryption is something best left to programs that specialize in encryption. Why try to maintain your own code

RE: DoS attack VNC 4.0

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, James Weatherall wrote: The DoS attack only affects VNC Server for Windows - you shouldn't therefore lose data as a consequence of an attack. There is no need to set up a firewall, only to use the LocalHost option to restrict connections to those originating from the local m

copy/cut/paste between Linux Xvnc 4 and Windows

I am running this on Red Hat Linux... Xvnc version 4.0b4 - built Sep 5 2003 13:04:00 Underlying X server release 4030, The XFree86 Project, Inc I want to be able to copy/cut/paste between Windows and the Xvnc session. How is that accomplished? I thought that running autocutsel on Linux woul

VNC with OpenGL on Linux?

I'm running VNC on Linux but get errors about GLX. I found this highly- relevant post: http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2004-May/045347.html Here's my question: Is there a page that describes step-by-step how to install Xvnc on Linux so that OpenGL will work? Thanks in advance for an

RE: copy/cut/paste between Linux Xvnc 4 and Windows

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Asher, Scott wrote: Run vncconfig -nowin (or -iconic, whatever you'd prefer). See the vncconfig man page. Wow. I totally missed the boat - that's a nice change in VNC. It looks like the functionality is further enhanced with autocutsel, so now I will add both to my xstart

VNC Server Enterprise Edition for Unix

Is there any info on the timeline for the upcoming release of the VNC Server Enterprise Edition for Unix? Are any of you using the Enterprise Edition on Windows? Liking it? Mike ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the li

Re: How to change encryption key?

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Angelo Sarto wrote: You prolly really want vnc-enterprise This will allow you to tie the login to a user account and then your security will be the same as you have for login security. How is the UNIX version of Enterprise VNC coming along? I didn't see Brandon's question ans

Re: VNC & Palm Treo

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently downloaded VNC and was able to set it up and access my WinXP Pro computer using another computer, so I know it's working. Is it possible to use my Palm Treo to access my WinXP Pro computer over the internet? If so would it be possible

no update without cursor movement on Xvnc

Only one of my users is having this problem, as far as I know. VNC only updates on cursor movement. If he types in an xterm, nothing happens until the cursor is moved. On the other hand, I think it updates *eventually* without cursor movement, but it is maddeningly slow. So to use VNC under

Re: no update without cursor movement on Xvnc

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Mike Miller wrote: Only one of my users is having this problem, as far as I know. VNC only updates on cursor movement. If he types in an xterm, nothing happens until the cursor is moved. On the other hand, I think it updates *eventually* without cursor movement, but it

gnome-session child process not killed by vncserver

On Red Hat Linux running Xvnc version 4.0b4, starting gnome-session as follows... #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults xsetroot -solid grey vncconfig -nowin & exec autocutsel & /usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x51+78+25 -ls -T "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" & exec gnome-session & ...we had a problem where the gnome-se

Pass special keys directly to server?

Is the "Pass special keys directly to server" functionality of VNCviewer not available when the client is running Windows 98? Using the same viewer on Windows 2000 and Windows 98, I find that it only works correctly on Windows 2000. Is this how it works, or am I doing something wrong? Mike --

RE: Pass special keys directly to server?

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, James Weatherall wrote: Yes, that is correct. Windows 95/98 and Me lack the required operating system interfaces to implement that. The fact that it appears to be a valid option via the GUI is a bug (albeit a minor one) and the documentation should definitely mention that l

Synergy (was "multimonitor support")

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, James Weatherall wrote: VNC Viewer already includes support for this (broken in 4.1 but will be fixed in the 4.1.1 release!). VNC Server supports either remoting the entire desktop or an individual monitor. Has anyone compared Synergy with VNC for use with multiple computers

black screen upon connection

I have a VPN setup and can connect to it. When I try to use VCN viewer 4, I enter my password to connect and then I get a window that is all black. I move my mouse around and get nothing. The host is not having any troubles and can connect from computers outside their network. I am running a p

RE: Contacting RealVNC

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Collins, Kevin (MindWorks) [Contractor] wrote: I have to agree - I asked the same type of questions about Enterprise VNC for Unix (which costs $$!) twice and have not gotten any response... Anyone? I can only add my agreement. My interpretation is that "soon" does not reall

RE: Contacting RealVNC

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Erik Soderquist wrote: keep those emails, have a lawyer look at the license agreement, and if still no response, you at least have records of attempting to contact and acting in good faith. I'm not a lawyer, so try that at your own risk. No license agreement applies to quest

RE: Contacting RealVNC

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Erik Soderquist wrote: huh? it was my understanding that people were using vnc, so how could it be nonexistent? We're talking about our questions about the forthcoming releases of two currently nonexistent programs: VNC Personal Edition... http://www.vnc.com/download.html ..

RE: Contacting RealVNC

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Collins, Kevin (MindWorks) [Contractor] wrote: The original "legal" question had nothing to do with either of these versions of the software (directly) - it was about the legality of selling another software package for installing VNC. OK. I guess another thread got mixed in

Re: What good is VNC's GPL?

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Brian K. White wrote: Saying that they will only deal with realvnc and that they are not obligated to honor the license of public code they are using until realvnc approaches them or responds to their approaches is NOT acceptable unless they are not in fact using anything tha

Re: What good is VNC's GPL?

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, William Hooper wrote: Mike Miller wrote: RealVNC has developed an Enterprise edition that is not being distributed under the GPL. I assume that the Enterprise edition contains GPL code from the old RealVNC. I also believe that this is OK because the RealVNC team owns the

Re: What good is VNC's GPL?

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Mark Jacobs wrote: http://www.planetdns.net This one looks especially bad - they are receiving rewards and making money out of, what looks like, Wez's work! Where is the evidence that PlanetDNS has VNC inside? I'm interested in this issue because I'm not sure how we can demonst

Re: What good is VNC's GPL?

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Jim Brown wrote: Where is the evidence that PlanetDNS has VNC inside? http://www.planetdns.net/premstd/v2.0/onlinehelp/dialogs/mshvnc_copyright_notice.html Great. Thanks. Next question: Are they violating the GPL? Has anyone bought the product and found that it is distribute

RE: What good is VNC's GPL?

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Steve Bostedor wrote: This is all just fantasy talk, anyways. We KNOW that theirs is a modified VNC because they spell it out on their website. Who cares, I guess. It looks like everyone's doing it. Integrity and doing the right thing just doesn't matter for anything thes

RE: What good is VNC's GPL?

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Steve Bostedor wrote: They are violating the GPL by not including the source and a copy of the GPL. So you actually purchased the product and found that the source is not included? Mike ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com

RE: What good is VNC's GPL?

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Steve Bostedor wrote: No, I downloaded the shareware version and requested to purchase the source. I was ignored. There was no copy of the GPL and no release notes of changes to the VNC source. All a violation of the GPL. Thanks Steve. Another one for the Wall of Shame. M

Re: Greyweave background problems - VNC with KDE on FC3

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Chris Branas wrote: I've read all through the documentation, etc. but I can't seem to fix this with the prescribed methods. I want to run vnc to connect to kde. I am running the command "vncserver :10" and vnc starts. I can run Xvnc on all but :10. The reason is that port 6

VNC Enterprise Edition for Unix

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Lou Kamenov wrote: Is there such thing as VNC Enterprise Edition for FreeBSD, theres one for Linux alright? Thanks for pointing out that the Unix Enterprise Editions (Solaris, Linux and HP/UX) are now available. If there was an announcement, I missed it. I am a little disa

tcp wrappers for VNC Enterprise Edition for Unix?

In the past I have compiled against libwrap.a so that I can use tcp wrappers to block clients in certain domains. I actually block major areas like Europe, Asia and Latin America. I would like to be able to do this with VNC Enterprise Edition. Is that possible? Mike _

Re: VNC Security

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Andy Bruce - softwareAB wrote: I have to agree with Steve that this is, for all practical purposes, a non-existent security risk. The only things that could go wrong: a. "Somebody" is sniffing the packet stream while the VNC passwords are being exchanged, and, during that 20

Re: VNC Security

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Mike Miller wrote: If you were using Windows he could start up another VNC desktop that you might not notice... Sorry -- I meant to say "if you were using UNIX". I assume this would not be possible in Windows. Mike __

Re: double posts

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Erik Soderquist wrote: is it just me or is this list double posting everything? I believe the problem was coming from the security list that some of our messages were CC'd to. So probably (I hope) only a few of us were affected (those who were in the CC list of the repeated

Re: src.rpm/specfile, GPL violation

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Rex Dieter wrote: Until now, I've never encountered a vendor who provided rpms who didn't either offer the src.rpm and/or specfile. If you had asked them for those files, maybe they would have given them to you. I think you told them that they *had* to give the file(s) to yo

RE: VNC security, and can free VNC connect to paid VNC?

We've used the free VNC for awhile to view machines outside our office, but our IT guys are too nervous about punching through our firewall to allow others to view our machines. I think they're too cautious. Question: If we buy the VNC version that is advertised as more secure, will it reall

RE: VNC security, and can free VNC connect to paid VNC?

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Erik Soderquist wrote: To be clear, the VNC viewer that uses encryption is free, but but you cannot use the older viewer. not according to realvnc's web page: http://www.realvnc.com/products/features.html according to that, the free one does not include encryption I do

Re: Question re free/personal/enterprise editions

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, David Kinston wrote: what features remain if the server and client licences are different? eg viewer is enterprise, server is the free edition, etc. I'm not the expert, but I've been using that setup. The only thing I'm not seeing is the use of encryption. The new Ente

"A VNC server is already running as :11" -- but it isn't true!

On Solaris, with Xvnc version 3.3.3, I run this command... vncserver :11 ...and I receive this response: A VNC server is already running as :11 But there is no VNC server running as :11, the .pid and .log files don't exist in ~/.vnc, the /tmp/.X11-unix directory has no :11 file, and I don't

Re: "A VNC server is already running as :11" -- but it isn't true!

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Mike Miller wrote: On Solaris, with Xvnc version 3.3.3, I run this command... vncserver :11 ...and I receive this response: A VNC server is already running as :11 But there is no VNC server running as :11, the .pid and .log files don't exist in ~/.vnc, the /tmp

RealVNC Server Remote Information Disclosure

It made it into the SANS report: * @RISK: The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert June 24, 2005 Vol. 4. Week 25 **

RE: "A VNC server is already running as :11" -- but it isn't true!

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, James Weatherall wrote: Is there a /tmp/.X11-lock file? No. I guess it was ssh port forwarding on 6011 that was stopping me. It would be nice to have a way to prevent ssh from doing that. Mike ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-Lis

RE: "A VNC server is already running as :11" -- but it isn't true!

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, James Weatherall wrote: SSH already has an option to disable X11 forwarding. Just specify -x when you run it. That's a good tip. But suppose I want to have my cake and eat it to, so to speak. That is, I want SSH port forwarding and I also want Xvnc to work on every di

Re: RealVNC Server Remote Information Disclosure

On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Ran Sasson @ I.O. Ltd wrote: they declined to comment on what the "vulnerability" actually is. " reveals sensitive information such as RealVNC version and the underlying operating system. This information may aid in other attacks against an affected computer." that is it

Re: VNC doesn't monitor GVIM's clipboard

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, wesleyz wrote: It is also a cut&paste problem. the VNC server is running on a Solaris 8 box, and the client is running on Windows 2000. Are you running autocutsel? If not, check it out. It definitely made my VNC cut/paste work a lot better. Mike _

making connection despite cable modem and Linksys router

I know this has to be a FAQ that has been asked a million times but 30 minutes of searching did not get me an answer so I'm hoping one of you can direct me to the web page that explains this. I installed Enterprise VNC server on my PC and had this problem. Now I'm using [EMAIL PROTECTED] serv

Re: making connection despite cable modem and Linksys router

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Mike Miller wrote: I know this has to be a FAQ that has been asked a million times but 30 minutes of searching did not get me an answer so I'm hoping one of you can direct me to the web page that explains this. I installed Enterprise VNC server on my PC and had

RE: making connection despite cable modem and Linksys router

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, James Weatherall wrote: Have you configured your router to forward port 5800 to your VNC Server computer? Please note that port 5800 is normally used only to serve the Java VNC Viewer, and you'll need to additionally forward port 5900 in order to actually connect via VNC

UltraVNC, file transfer, encryption, and tray icon

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Steve Bostedor wrote: Take your pick between TightVNC(http://www.tightvnc.com) and UltraVNC (http://www.ultraVNC.com) They are both great VNC servers. UltraVNC supports encryption while TightVNC doesn't, but other than that, I believe they're very comparable. I'm tryi

Re: logout the gnome-session

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, ?? ? wrote: When I use vncviewer connect to a remote linux host and start a gnome-session,can somebody do someting on the gnome , that ,, as I select "logout" from the launch menu , not only exit the gnome-session but also kill the VNC server? It does the thing that "vncs

Re: Connect through a linksys router

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Shobuz99 wrote: Although not a total newbie to VNC (used since 1998); I am new to connecting to a VNC server through a router and am not quite sure I understand the process. For example, I run VNC (3.3.7) server on my office machine, that is connected to a router. The IP

use of TCP wrappers with VNC Enterprise Edition?

I used to compile VNC against libwrap.a to use Wietse Venema's tcp wrappers. Is it possible to use tcpwrappers with Enterprise Edition? If not, I could just use ordinary Real VNC compiled with libwrap.a, block all VNC connections except from localhost and force everyone outside to use VNC via

Re: use of TCP wrappers with VNC Enterprise Edition?

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, William Hooper wrote: Mike Miller wrote: [snip] block all VNC connections except from localhost This portion can be achieved by using the "-localhost" switch. "-localhost Only allow connections from the same machine. Useful if you use SSH and want

[EMAIL PROTECTED] vulnerability

What are your opinions on this? (below) How serious is it? Mike * @RISK: The Consensus Security Vulnerability Alert May 8, 2006 Vol. 5. Week 18 **

Re: Version 4.1.2

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Harold Fuchs wrote: If we are going to get serious, I'll have to ask the obvious question: why is the source only available *after* the executable? "Just common sense, under the circumstances..." leads to the question what circumstances? As an outsider, I'll just add t

is v. 3.3.3 vulnerable?

Are older versions of RealVNC such as 3.3.3 (for Solaris) vulnerable to the new exploit? I guess I'm using an old version on one of my machines because I compiled against libwrap.a and I'm not sure how to do that again! Mike ___ VNC-List mailing lis

Re: Version 4.1.2

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Rex Dieter wrote: James Weatherall wrote: Interesting that the source is only available *after* the executable. Just common sense, under the circumstances... Complying with vnc's GPL licensing makes a little sense too. They own the license. That means that they can

Re: Version 4.1.2

On Wed, 17 May 2006, Harold Fuchs wrote: Mike Miller wrote: Another good reason to release binaries first -- think about this -- a bad guy could download both the new source and the old source, do diffs and figure out how to exploit the vulnerability. If the binaries are out there first

is v. 4.0 vulnerable?

On Wed, 17 May 2006, James Weatherall wrote: The problem is specific to the VNC 4 series. OK, but some people believe that the 4.0 versions are not affected. From our IT guys: We went back and forth a bit with Red hat and our own security folks on this one. Red Hat distributes V4.0 of Re

Re: is v. 4.0 vulnerable?

On Thu, 18 May 2006, Mike Miller wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006, James Weatherall wrote: The problem is specific to the VNC 4 series. OK, but some people believe that the 4.0 versions are not affected. From our IT guys: We went back and forth a bit with Red hat and our own security folks on

Re: Fwd: Re: 4.1.1 security flaw: client or server?

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Clinton Sinkhorn wrote: why in the hell am i getting all of the emails for [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] List-Unsubscribe: , [snip] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/m

Re: vnc security flaw?

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Alex Pelts wrote: IMHO, VNC people did all they could to fix the problem and post the update. It is up to the users to make sure they are up to date. If you do not like RealVNC security record you are always free to run any other software. There are really many choices you ca

dual-headed monitors and VNC on Windows

I'm actually using [EMAIL PROTECTED] on my PC, so I'm not sure that this problem applies to RealVNC. Let me know if I should go away (preferrably to an [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, if there is one), but I have been on this list for more than 8 years and I like it! The problem is that when I connec

Re: A heads up on new worm affecting previous versions of RealVNC

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Diana Hargus wrote: Just had to clean up this new worm from an infected pc. Apparently the vector was through an um-updated VNC on a friend's pc. Just another reason to update and patch. http://www.us.sophos.com/security/analyses/w32rbotgai.html From the writeup on the

Re: A heads up on new worm affecting previous versions of RealVNC

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, William Hooper wrote: What do we know about which VNC versions are vulnerable? Check it out using the CVE number: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2006-2369 This references the bug in version 4.1.1. Thanks! That's what I thought. This note from Red Hat is fun

Re: Possible to calculate dimension of a window

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Mohamed Mansour wrote: I am wondering is it possible in RealVNC to calculate any windows dimension when your mouse is over it? I am trying to develop over RealVNC a mod for research. I would like to figure out if it is possible (not to complex) to find the dimension, loc

Re: Obtaining screenshots

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, derrick welsh wrote: 'alt and printsc' should do it as long as the window is selected I'll second that. I've done it many times from a windows machine and it works perfectly. It puts the content of the window, including the frame, into the clipboard. You can then ope

RE: Obtaining screenshots

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, James Weatherall wrote: Depends on the version of VNC, I think when using the print scrn button. I notice when we moved from 3.7X to 4.X the regular print scrn did not work from that machine to my machine. I had to copy the image local to the PC I am connecting to. You j

VNCrobot license issue

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Ran Sasson @ I.O. Ltd. wrote: On 3/21/07, Mark Rainford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try vncrobot: it has screen capture... Nice tool, so it seems... Unfortunately it is not GPL'ed , and how come it's source-code is not available ? It is being distributed under a "freewa

Re: VNCrobot license issue

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Mike Miller wrote: It is being distributed under a "freeware license": http://www.vncrobot.com/downloads/index.html From there main page here... http://www.vncrobot.com/ ...we read "VNCRobot is a tool based on a VNC client." and "VNCRobot is a

Re: VNC Enterprise - centralized administration

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Jeff Hignett wrote: I had a quick general question for you. I am curious to know if by using VNC Enterprise, Would i be able to change the VNC password and have it effect all clients on multiple platforms, or will i have to go to each client individually? In other words, c

Re: VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Ronin Vladiamhe wrote: VNC Viewer (only) does not appear to be an installed program. VNC viewer, as it is provided by RealVNC, is indeed a standalone executable file. (1)With that being true, can the viewer (only) be installed on a CD/USB drive

Re: VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Mike Miller wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Ronin Vladiamhe wrote: VNC Viewer (only) does not appear to be an installed program. VNC viewer, as it is provided by RealVNC, is indeed a standalone executable file. (1)With that

Re: VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Mike Miller wrote: If the user of the Windows machine does not have administrator permissions and is not allowed to install software, does this mean that VNCviewer cannot run from the thumb drive? I'm thinking that the answer is yes becau

Re: VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Mike Miller wrote: The reason I am interested in this is that some friends in another department have a very heavy-handed IT staff that won't allow them to install any programs. I'm wondering if there is no way around this restriction

RE: VNC viewer and cd/thumb/flash/usb drive

t that doesn't allow installation of software? Some things persist for later logins (e.g., list of recent connections), so does that mean that VNCviewer writing to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE? Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Miller

Re: GNOME takes lot of time to LOAD through VNC

Did anyone already ask if this is the only Gnome session? Unlike some window managers, you can only run one Gnome per user at a time. Otherwise, the two Gnomes interfere with one another and cause failures. Mike On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: Are you sure this problem is 1

Re: Screen only updates on mouse movement

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Elderman, Melvin wrote: We have RedHat Linux Enterprise Server 4 with vncserver. Our clients are running RedHat Linux Client 4 and have vncviewer 4.0 Some are on Windows XPSp2 and have the Free edition 4.1 Due to our systems functionality we cannot easiliy upgrade. Problem:

Re: Screen only updates on mouse movement

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Tristan Richardson wrote: Sounds suspiciously like this problem in which case there is a simple workaround: http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2005-February/049352.html It is interesting to me that I have no memory of that! It looks like a nice answer to my ques

Ubuntu Xvnc packages -- libwrap? access to :0?

It has been a while since I installed Xvnc on anything but now I have a new Ubuntu box and am excited to make it do cool things. With Xvnc there used to be a patch, back in the 3.3 days at least, that allowed me to compile against libwrap.a and use Wietse Venema's "tcp wrappers" for access con

Re: help re file transfer

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, John Serink wrote: Yes On a windows box, install freesshd, Set it to allow tunnelling via local host, Set it to allow sftp access. Tunnel your vnc through the ssh connection and use sftp for file transfers. Its slick, it works and its fully encrypted. On a unix box, sshd

Re: help re file transfer

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Dale Eshelman wrote: To my knowledge there is no FTP (File Transfer Protocal) to transfer a file between to remote computers. scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:dir That would copy both file1 and file2 on two different machines with two

Re: VNC Viewer Vulnerability CVE-2008-4770

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A vulnerability has been reported in a core VNC Viewer component's validation of server-supplied RFB protocol data. This issue only affects the VNC Viewer component, VNC Servers are not affected. VNC Free Edition Viewer users should upgrade to ver

keep alive?

What is the trick to keeping a VNC session alive? With SSH we have schemes for sending packets intermittently to keep inactive sessions from being killed by routers. Maybe such a thing exists for RealVNC. I'm using this: The server is Xvnc version 4.0b4 The viewer is VNC Viewer Free Edition

Re: keep alive?

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, John Serink wrote: Make sure polling is eanabled on vnc. This should keep repaints happening as the desktop clock increments. How is that done? I don't see anything about "polling" in the man pages for Xvnc, vncserver or vncviewer. I'm using GNU/Linux machines. Mike

Re: keep alive?

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, John Serink wrote: Make sure polling is eanabled on vnc. This should keep repaints happening as the desktop clock increments. I don't know if that is supposed to be enabled by Xvnc (vncserver) or by the client. There is nothing about "polling" or "poll" in the man pages

RE: 'pass special keys directly to server' not supported in Linux

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, James Weatherall wrote: No, that behaviour is not supported at present. I also would like the requested feature, but what I do is make my desktop about the size of my monitor so that I can jump between maximize and full-screen modes and have it work about as well for me

calling the client from the server

For GNU/Linux systems, I see this option for vncconfig: -connect host[:port] Tells an Xvnc server to make a "reverse" connection to a listen- ing VNC viewer (normally connections are made the other way round - the viewer connects to the server). host is the host wher

using plink in batch file for VNC connections

This bash script allows me to connect from Cygwin to my Xvnc server ("myserver.edu"), which is allowing connections only from localhost: begin script on next line- #!/usr/bin/bash ssh -f -L 25901:127.0.0.1:5901 myserver.edu sleep 10 vncviewer Shar

vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X

I put the VNC viewer for Mac OS X on a thumb drive and managed to get it to work with SSH and the script I was working on the other day. It doesn't seem to recognize the "localhost:25901:1" part of the command though, so I had to increase "sleep 10" to "sleep 100" to have enough time to deal w

RE: vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X

this applies to all vncviewers on all OSs, am I right? Related question: Is there a reason to prefer localhost:25901 to 127.0.0.1:25901 ? Do they *always* do exactly the same thing? Best, Mike -Original Message- From: vnc-list-ad...@realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-ad...@realvnc.com]

RE: vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, James Weatherall wrote: Further to my previous mail, I'm not sure that the current VNC Viewer for Mac OS X releases support server names specified directly on the command-line, although specifying a ".vnc" file on the command-line instead should work. VNC Servers are refe

RE: vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, James Weatherall wrote: Further to my previous mail, I'm not sure that the current VNC Viewer for Mac OS X releases support server names specified directly on the command-line, although specifying a ".vnc" file on the command-line instead should work. Is that without an a

no spam filter?

I'm surprised the list has no spam filter for cases like this (e.g., when a subscriber's computer gets zombified, or whatever happened here). Mike ___ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc

Re: Switch workspace on Linux in VNC full screen mode?

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Hao Yu wrote: We can use "ctrl + alt + left/right/up/down arrow" on Linux to switch workspace rapidly, which is very useful to some guys. But after entering VNC "full screen" mode, these key maps no longer take effect but captured by VNC itself, unless we give up the full sc

RANDR and "Generic Event Extension"

Do we know anything about how to deal with this problem? It applies at least to Xvnc on Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/344060 "This bug happens in VNC environment. The VNC server package is vnc4server. The theme is never right under the vnc server.

Re: hanging after Gnome logout (fwd)

the list's server was down). --Mike -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:43:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Miller To: VNC List Subject: Re: hanging after Gnome logout On Tue, 5 May 2009, Mike Miller wrote: > I'm using Gnome with Ubuntu 8.10. I do mos

Re: Copy-Paste problems between Windows<-->Real VNC session

I have been using autocutsel in my xstartup in Xvnc: exec /usr/bin/autocutsel & I used to be able to copy/paste between Windows and VNC, but not anymore. It also seems that in Gnome on Ubuntu I cannot copy/paste between an XTerm window in VNC and an XTerm outside of VNC. Copy/paste within VNC

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