sharing displays.

hey all, I'd like to share a display with another person - ie, both be able to connect to the same server, and have another person watch my keystrokes and display. so - is there any simple way to do this with vnc? And if not, is there any tool that people know out there to do this? Thanks much,

Re: linux desktop not displaying

Jonathan: Thanks for pointing something out: Jonathan Morton wrote: > exec startkde I had it as just "kde" and nothing more... It works great now... Thanks. Ed -- Ed Kasky Los Angeles, CA ~~~ "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does." - Josh Billings -

unable to display

Hi guys, need some help as i am very new to this. I am running a win95 digital 5133 with an 15 inchmonitor(Digital also). I am running this pc as a viewer. My friends destpro ep is connected to an 17" monitor. Running in app mode. Whenevr i try to connect to her pc the scree loads and then stays

Re: linux desktop not displaying

>I have a gut feeling that I am not using the correct file for this. Does >it make a difference if I am using XFree86 4.0.3 with KDE?? I really wish Xvnc would use the same startup files as XFree86 does, then this kind of thing wouldn't happen. Assuming you're using a Red Hat (or derivative)

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ChromiVNC v3.4 alpha 4 released

>> If the main password is blank, access is only granted using the View- >> -only password, with View-only priveleges. > >This is the only one that works for me... > >Having looked at the code, I can't see any reason why it shouldn't work... You might want to try regenerating your Preferences fro

Re: linux desktop not displaying

Jeff - >The screen refreshed quickly - but all I get is 5 windows that look like > >term windows: > >1 labeled desktop > >2 labeled xterm > >1 labeled login > >and 1 Xclock. >I'm willing to bet that these came from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. It seems so. I looked at the file and it does load xterm

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ChromiVNC v3.4 alpha 4 released

> If the main password is blank, access is only granted using the View- > -only password, with View-only priveleges. This is the only one that works for me... The rest of your description is as I expected (and understood from the readme file). Having looked at the code, I can't see any reas

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ChromiVNC v3.4 alpha 4 released

>Hey Jonathan! You've been busy while I've been on my hols...! > >OK, just to let people using the Chromi server know that I'll post >an updated vncPatches68k for alpha 4 a.s.a.p. > >My initial testing with the vncPatches68k for alpha 3 suggests that >it is compatible with alpha 4, although the se

Re: Errors Tunneling VNC over SSH

Michael Erdely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ME> Go to http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/winvnc.html and search for ME> AllowLoopback. Thank you. Found it here: http://mike.erdelynet.com/sshvnc.asp#AllowLoopback -- http://guano.org/pgp.txt

RE: linux desktop not displaying

Ed Kasky writes: >>#!/bin/sh >>exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc & >>xrdb $HOME/.Xresources >>xsetroot -solid grey >>xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & >>twm >>kde I am not the worlds greatest X nerd, but it seems odd to me that you are trying to run twm and kde at the same

Re: linux desktop not displaying

I put the line in but no change in the screen appearance... It now looks like: >#!/bin/sh >exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc & >xrdb $HOME/.Xresources >xsetroot -solid grey >xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & >twm >kde I'll keep reading the archives. Ed At 06:03 PM 4/2

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ChromiVNC v3.4 alpha 4 released

Hey Jonathan! You've been busy while I've been on my hols...! OK, just to let people using the Chromi server know that I'll post an updated vncPatches68k for alpha 4 a.s.a.p. My initial testing with the vncPatches68k for alpha 3 suggests that it is compatible with alpha 4, although the server gi

Re: linux desktop not displaying

Hi Ed: Try put in you ~/.vnc/xstartup the lines: #!/bin/sh kde Of course , to run this session, you must run the vncsercer as the user with the ~ user. It should show you a KDE session when you connect to the box that is running the server. This solution works in my slackware 7.1 box, an in a so

RE: Errors Tunneling VNC over SSH

Go to http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/winvnc.html and search for AllowLoopback. -ME -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Warren Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 4:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Errors Tunneling VNC over SSH I am havin

Errors Tunneling VNC over SSH

I am having trouble connecting to a VNC server via SSH. Both the VNC server and the SSH daemon (Vshell from VanDyke Technologies) are running on a remote WinNT box. I've set up the SSH client, SecureCRT (also from VanDyke), to forward remote port 5900 to local port 5901. When I try connecting t

linux desktop not displaying

I am new with VNC so bear with me on this. (And yes, I have read the docs and searched the archives.) Server machine is running Mandrake 7.2 , Xfree86 / KDE desktop When viewing at first, all I got was the xterm. I edited ~/.vnc/xstartup to read: #!/bin/sh exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc & xrdb

RE: Over ride login button

Zuckman, Daniel writes: >I need to connect to a user's PC without them being there to hit the ok >button I assume by this that you are QuerySetting option in the registry, setting this back to default would allow you to connect to the machine without the users permission. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Softw

Over ride login button

I need to connect to a user's PC without them being there to hit the ok button Daniel Zuckman, MCSE Seligman Data Corp IT DEPARTMENT (212)716-2835 - To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PRO

Locking local keyboard and mouse (WinVNC)

I like this feature, and it works well, but there is one problem I ran into. Sometimes I need to view a users screen and watch what they are doing (view only mode), and then, if I need to, take control, locking their keyboard and mouse do what I need to, and then give them back control. Unfor

RE: RFBProxy under Win32

Just a simple suggestion, as I haven't actually used RFBProxy before, but "cygwinized" apps in my experienced typically use Unix-like syntax - ie, directory paths use "/", not "\". Try "rfbproxy --record c:/123.log" instead. Just my $.02... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

<, keyboard switch doesn't work

I'm running a TridiaVNC server on HPUX11. The client is on a Linux computer. One weird thing: the "<," switch on a keyboard does not work. It surely works with everything else. Any idea will be appreciated. Mark - To unsubscrib

RFBProxy under Win32

I don't know if there is a native Win32 RFBProxy, but I have tried this cyqwin port of the unix rfbproxy ( ftp://ftp.cetp.ipsl.fr/depot/rfb_proxy_Win32.zip ). I have a problem trying to get it to run. when I start it with the commandline below, it sits waiting for a client to connect. C:\temp\

Log file?

Windows NT 4.0 - VNC 3.3.3r9 Hi, I would like to get a log file.with all conection history. is it posible? Thanks - Original Message - From: "James ''Wez'' Weatherall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:27 AM Subject: Re: VNC versus Citrix ICA

Minimize causes loss of update

A search of the archives didn't seem to mention this one. Configuration: Running the client on Win98 Servers on both Linux and Win2000 I observe the following behaviour: If I minimize the main VNC window on the Win98 machine, and then de- iconify it, no more updates are visible. This is com

Re: VNC versus Citrix ICA

Run as a service using "winvnc -install" to install the service and "net start winvnc" to start it. The server depth is whatever depth the server PC's display is set to. Cheers, James "Wez" Weatherall -- "The path to enlightenment is /usr/bin/enlightenment" Laboratory for Communicatio

RE: Windows 2000 and VNC, the story thus far. . .

I didn't see the rest of this thread but we had problems when we upgraded a server to 2000. I upgraded the VNC to the version that was current a few weeks ago. I believe it was 3.3.3,R9 and the problem when away. I don't know if it was the reinstall or the change of release. -Original Mess

announce list

There doesn't seem to be an archive of the vnc-announce list. At least, I couldn't find one at or . I'd like to see what gets posted to the announce list before I unsubscribe from the main list. I'm compl

Re: Windows 2000 and VNC, the story thus far. . .

Hi, I have the problem described in this threat : vguffens@bru-cse-013% vncviewer snsvpc7:0 VNC server supports protocol version 3.3 (viewer 3.3) Password: VNC authentication succeeded vncviewer: VNC server closed connection vguffens@bru-cse-013% vnc server close the connection as soon as the