Re: Obtaining IP address over internet

2001-05-17 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Rob Cornelius wrote: > Try a free e-mailing client that can sent a e-mail message to you with > your ip address. you can have your pc create a text file with the ip > address by using the command /? at the end of the winipcfg or ipconfig > command. > > Use the > symbol follo

Re: How to install VNC on remote machine

2001-05-17 Thread Jim Millard
>So my question is: >Is it possible to install the VNC server on that machine without physically >travelling overseas to its keyboard? >If so, how is it accomplished?? 1) install the package to your own local machine 2) start the WinVNC server with the password you want on the remote machine 3) c

Re: Obtaining IP address over internet

2001-05-17 Thread Rob Cornelius
Try a free e-mailing client that can sent a e-mail message to you with your ip address. you can have your pc create a text file with the ip address by using the command /? at the end of the winipcfg or ipconfig command. Use the > symbol followed by the file name you want created: for example

RedHat 7.0 and VNC

2001-05-17 Thread Brian Street
Hello, The problems continue ... I've managed to get VNC running on Solaris 8 and RedHat 6.2 and still have Solaris 2.6 and RedHat 7.0. I haven't started the Solaris 2.6 yet, but the RedHat 7.0 machine is giving me quite the fits. RedHat 7.0 is running xinetd and I converted my inetd.conf entr

How to install VNC on remote machine

2001-05-17 Thread Bo Berglund
I need to install a GUI interface to a W2000 Pro machine so I can administrate it remotely. I think that VNC will be possible to use, since I cannot use Terminal Server because the machine is a workstation and not a server. The problem I have is that it is 6000 miles away and I can only get to it

Re: nmap to port 6001 kills vnc session...

2001-05-17 Thread Grant McDorman
600x is the X server port. It has known vunerabilities (XFree86, for example had a simple one-packet DoS attack on its port; this is probably still present in Xvnc, since it's based on XFree86). The X security is not very strong, either; what's more, people often turn it off (the command 'xhost +

RE: HELP me please, vnc on windows nt but the users always close the vnc client

2001-05-17 Thread William Arbuckle
TridaVNC does this.. FYI William - To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html --

Re: Connecting to my (small) office network (ADSL problem?)

2001-05-17 Thread Harmen van der Wal
Harmen van der Wal wrote: > > Jan, I think you should bind WinVNC to the dial-up interface. > Sorry, that is probably incorrect. Please ignore. -- Harmen http://www1.tip.nl/~t515027/ - To unsubscribe, send a message with the

Re: nmap to port 6001 kills vnc session...

2001-05-17 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Michael Procter wrote: > Mike, I did against a couple of my Linux boxes and had no problems, > whether the viewer was open or not. Thanks. I tried a different Sun and it did *not* crash. That Sun is running Solaris 2.5.1 while the others were running Solaris 2.6. All mach

Re: Connecting to my (small) office network (ADSL problem?)

2001-05-17 Thread Harmen van der Wal
Lee Allen wrote: > > > But how do you find out what the right address is?!? According to my > > provider, it is 194.109.244.216. But if I enter this address, VNC doesn't > > find it. > > If you have DSL, there is a very good chance you have a DSL modem/firewall. > And this device is probably per

Re: Connecting to my (small) office network (ADSL problem?)

2001-05-17 Thread Lee Allen
> But how do you find out what the right address is?!? According to my > provider, it is 194.109.244.216. But if I enter this address, VNC doesn't > find it. If you have DSL, there is a very good chance you have a DSL modem/firewall. And this device is probably performing NAT: Network Address tra

Re: nmap to port 6001 kills vnc session...

2001-05-17 Thread Michael Procter
Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2001, Scott C. Best wrote: > > > > If I run nmap on another machine as follows: > > > > > > nmap -p 6001 host.machine > > > > Instead of running nmap on all those ports (the -p , > > without the number, scans all the low numbered ports <1024, plus any > >

Re: Connecting to my (small) office network (ADSL problem?)

2001-05-17 Thread Jim Millard
Jan, >But how do you find out what the right address is?!? According to my >provider, it is 194.109.244.216. But if I enter this address, VNC doesn't >find it. > >That's progress for you! Which machine/device/host has the 194.109.x.x address? If your provider is giving it to you, then that's ON

Re: Connecting to my (small) office network (ADSL problem?)

2001-05-17 Thread Jan Bletz
Thank you! But how do you find out what the right address is?!? According to my provider, it is 194.109.244.216. But if I enter this address, VNC doesn't find it. That's progress for you! jan At 12:36 PM 5/17/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Jan, > >>But: how can I connect to my office network? I have

Re: Connecting to my (small) office network (ADSL problem?)

2001-05-17 Thread Jim Millard
Jan, >But: how can I connect to my office network? I have 3 computers, >permanently connected with ethernetcards and to the internet (an ADSL >connected). According to WIN VNC, my IP-address is 10.0.0.10, >194.109.244.216, 1.0.0.1 (the first computer in the network, that is). I am >not able to co

re: nmap to port 6001 kills vnc session...

2001-05-17 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, 17 May 2001, Scott C. Best wrote: > Hello! I'm sorry that my suggestions don't sound appealing to > you. It sounds like you found a potential weakness in a VNC system, > but are dis-inclined to gather more data about the particulars. My > experience with open source projects over th

Re: VNC vs Tridia

2001-05-17 Thread Mac Reiter
>> I see that Tridia has more encoding options (adding compression), but AT&T >> VNC is ported to more platforms. Fine. But as my primary use is 100% >> "wintel" << yeah, yeah, *nix is much better, but I'm a corporate IT guy >> that has to support an infrastructure of wintel boxes---cut me some

Connecting to my (small) office network (ADSL problem?)

2001-05-17 Thread Jan Bletz
VNC is a great programme! But: how can I connect to my office network? I have 3 computers, permanently connected with ethernetcards and to the internet (an ADSL connected). According to WIN VNC, my IP-address is 10.0.0.10, 194.109.244.216, 1.0.0.1 (the first computer in the network, that is). I a

re: nmap to port 6001 kills vnc session...

2001-05-17 Thread Scott C. Best
Mike: Hello! I'm sorry that my suggestions don't sound appealing to you. It sounds like you found a potential weakness in a VNC system, but are dis-inclined to gather more data about the particulars. My experience with open source projects over the years is that the person who calls in the

Re: VNC vs Tridia

2001-05-17 Thread Michael F. March
I use them both and since they interoperate very well, it does not seem to be a pain to have them both around. On my Windows box, for instance, both versions of the client share most of the same config and register settings so I can pop back and forth between both versions with little hassle.

Re: vnc without screen update

2001-05-17 Thread Grant McDorman
Look for x2vnc. It's fairly old, but it works fine. I am using it right now to use the same (Unix) keyboard for a Solaris system and a Windows NT system sitting on my desktop. According to minou@ife: > Hello > > At our institute we are interested in a version of vnc which does NOT update > the sc

Vnc server on Unix

2001-05-17 Thread Nicolas Sciboz
Hi ! Sorry for my english, i' m swiss-french ! I' ve a question, i start vncserver ok ! i start vncviewer for windows, and i see only the terminal and not my x-windows ? Have you a idea for me ? Thanks, Nicolas Sciboz - To

RE: HELP me please, vnc on windows nt but the users always close the vnc client

2001-05-17 Thread Joe Campbell
Dan, I'm looking for a way to run VNC in stealth mode so it doesn't appear on the SysTray. I'd rather not turn off the entire system tray. Is that possible? We are in an all Windows environment (win 95 clients and Win NT servers) Joe Campbell Express-1, Inc. Buchanan, Michigan 49107 [EMAIL PROT

omnithread_rt.dll

2001-05-17 Thread Jim Millard
I've been successful running WinVNC and omnithread_rt.dll in the same directory, rather than copying the DLL to %winroot%\system or %winroot%\system32. Is there a good reason why the installer still insists on putting the DLL in the system directory? -- Jim Millard Kansas City, MO USA http://

VNC vs Tridia

2001-05-17 Thread Jim Millard
Okay, I've seen many references to the two suites, but I'm looking for something more conclusive. I see that Tridia has more encoding options (adding compression), but AT&T VNC is ported to more platforms. Fine. But as my primary use is 100% "wintel" << yeah, yeah, *nix is much better, but I'm

Re: remotely installing VNC

2001-05-17 Thread Jim Millard
> > For scripting it, I borrowed the password-encryption of the server code and > > wrote a small command-line registry-setting program that will set a > > password in the registry (regedit can't do the correct data types for a > > .REG import), which is really handy. > >where can it be found ? H

RE: vnc without screen update

2001-05-17 Thread Roger Campbell
We are building something similar for a training application. The clients (there will be many) are viewing the single server. So, we are changing the server to update without the client update request message. Normally, the client runs a continuous loop that requests update, processes update, t

Re: Obtaining IP address over internet

2001-05-17 Thread Jim Millard
Steve, >I wank to VNC to my home PC from work over the internet, My dial-up modem >connection is occasionally dropped and the IP address will change every time >the PC reconnects. Any suggestion for obtaining my IP address remotely? Personally, I use the Tzolkin "dynamic DNS" service (http://w

Re: remotely installing VNC

2001-05-17 Thread Ran Sasson
> For scripting it, I borrowed the password-encryption of the server code and > wrote a small command-line registry-setting program that will set a > password in the registry (regedit can't do the correct data types for a > .REG import), which is really handy. where can it be found ?

Re: Obtaining IP address over internet

2001-05-17 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:11:38PM +0200, oan wrote: :Go to http://www.no-ip.com there you can register and they are exactly your :solution (dynamic ip address). You can then download their client and he'll :update you're ip automatically. On a similar note, I use http://www.dhs.org for my home m

AW: Obtaining IP address over internet

2001-05-17 Thread oan
Go to http://www.no-ip.com there you can register and they are exactly your solution (dynamic ip address). You can then download their client and he'll update you're ip automatically. oan -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von Steve Godf

asciicircum sent twice

2001-05-17 Thread Clemens Resanka
Hi all, I'm using the latest windows vncviewer to view a linux desktop (Xvnc) Everything works fine, except the asciicirum (^) key. When I press the ^ key it shows up twice (^^). Now the strange part: For testing I remap the keycode to x: xmodmap -e "keycode 23 = x" >From then on I get two cap

Argh! HowTo inetd ... script

2001-05-17 Thread Alex Perry
From: Alex > [demime 0.97b removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream > which had a name of DOVNC] From: "Seth Kneller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: Argh! HowTo inetd ... > Nice Instructions, however, you should have pasted the script into the > body of the message. Sigh ... here

RE: Obtaining IP address over internet

2001-05-17 Thread Gustafsson, Bjorn
Huh? How on earth could that be illegal? Okay, the quick solution: Obtain one of those free subdomains (like cjb.net and the likes of it). You could then VNC to that address and wouldn't have to worry about the ip. Of course you would need a client that refreshes the domain IP every now and then.

RE: Obtaining IP address over internet

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Godfrey
My typo or obtaining an IP address?!? I hoped no-one would notice that one :-( >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17/01 10:01am >>> Isn't that illegal ? Simon Howlett NT Server Team -Original Message- From: Steve Godfrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 May 2001 07:44 To: [EMAIL PRO

RE: Obtaining IP address over internet

2001-05-17 Thread Howlett, Simon (NESL-IT)
Isn't that illegal ? Simon Howlett NT Server Team -Original Message- From: Steve Godfrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 17 May 2001 07:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Obtaining IP address over internet I wank to VNC to my home PC from work over the internet, My d

Obtaining IP address over internet

2001-05-17 Thread Steve Godfrey
I wank to VNC to my home PC from work over the internet, My dial-up modem connection is occasionally dropped and the IP address will change every time the PC reconnects. Any suggestion for obtaining my IP address remotely? Thanks Steve Godfrey WAN Team