Re: Get out of -fullscreen mode on unix viewer

2001-05-25 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
Press F8 and you should get a popup menu which will let you switch to and from fullscreen mode. James "Wez" Weatherall -- "The path to enlightenment is /usr/bin/enlightenment" Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge - Tel : 766513 AT&T Labs Cambridge, UK

Get out of -fullscreen mode on unix viewer

2001-05-25 Thread Edwin Goei
Hi, If I run the unix vncviewer in fullscreen mode, how do I get out of fullscreen mode to see my other "native" windows. All I can think of is to login to the host running the viewer and kill it. Is there a better way, like with the Windows viewer? -Edwin PS: Thanks to Grant McDorman for hel

RE:Windows 2000 fun

2001-05-25 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Lanier, Brian (CCI-San Diego CCC) wrote: > Used in conjunction with the QuerySetting value to prompt to accept, it > is a legitimate and honest use of VNC. This is definitely true. If I have time (very busy writing Thesis...) then I'll probably make it possible to hide the

RE: VNC Connection Freezes / Drops

2001-05-25 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
On Fri, 25 May 2001, David Lankford wrote: > Update: I am now getting the Runtime Error even when I use the non-shared > re-initiation of the session. > > Other Information: > > I didn't state this before, but the runtime error is a Microsoft Visual C++ > Runtime Library error message. Ca

RE: possible bug report

2001-05-25 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
On Fri, 25 May 2001, John Morrison wrote: > James, > > Good call, I went to the ORL directory and set the rights so that System had > full control. I was then able to start VNC as a service again. Strange I've > never had to manually do this before with VNC but now I feel better about > patchin

password file

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Harris
hi gang, I am trying to automate the vnc viewer attachment from my Linux box to my W2000 box with : vncviewer w2000box:0 -passwd passwordfile -fullscreen The question is how do I create the passwordfile ? Thanks Mark H. Harris <>< Staff Software Engineer Software

Re: More on W9x halting

2001-05-25 Thread D. R. Evans
On 25 May 01, at 10:06, Frank Evan Perdicaro wrote: > > > I too am experiencing Windows freeze and have been working on narrowing > > > down the problem. Later today I will be trying another configuration. > > > > The problem you describe is completely different from the problem described > > b

RE: possible bug report

2001-05-25 Thread John Morrison
James, Good call, I went to the ORL directory and set the rights so that System had full control. I was then able to start VNC as a service again. Strange I've never had to manually do this before with VNC but now I feel better about patching the rest of my servers. I would hate to lose the cont

RE: VNC Connection Freezes / Drops

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Harris
Jason says, "Double click on the VNC server icon in the system tray. Check the box that states "poll full screen". --- I checked the "poll full screen" box and am testing now.What other boxes do you have checked.I have unchecked all other polling boxes and only have the "poll full sc

Re: Solaris vncviewer ignores -depth option

2001-05-25 Thread Grant McDorman
>From looking at the source, the -depth option is ignored unless the -truecolor option is also supplied. This seems to work for me: vncviewer -depth 24 host:0 comes up 8BPP. vncviewer -depth 24 -truecolor host:0 comes up truecolor. According to Edwin Goei: > Hi, I haven't found a solution to

Re: More on W9x halting

2001-05-25 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Mac Reiter wrote: > Now, if the suspected problem is one of event frequency and the system not > having time to process events and free them, then a 10% CPU usage would > disprove that hypothesis. If the suspected problem is one of Resource > leakage, then a powerful machine

RE: possible bug report

2001-05-25 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
On Fri, 25 May 2001, John Morrison wrote: > I ran through the same steps again but used the command line rather than the > GUI and the system still will not allow the VNC service to start. When > trying to start the service I just get an access denied. The settings are > configured for Log on as

RE: VNC Connection Freezes / Drops

2001-05-25 Thread David Lankford
Update: I am now getting the Runtime Error even when I use the non-shared re-initiation of the session. Other Information: I didn't state this before, but the runtime error is a Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library error message. Also of note, when I exit Outlook after receiving the error

RE: Ghosting?? / Back Orifice 2000

2001-05-25 Thread John Pierson
Back Orifice is located on SourceForge.net (yes it's always been an open source program, which is why it's such a pain as a virus). I personally like the power of Back Orifice, but the Desktop power of VNC is much better. I think there is someone trying to combine the Desktop control of VNC with

Re: More on W9x halting

2001-05-25 Thread Mac Reiter
>> them. Under Win9x, this can cause serious problems, basically because Win9x >> is mainly 16-bit and doesn't deal with large numbers of resources well. > >Yes, W98 is crap. No real need to discuss that. > >As for some sort of event overload, I doubt it. The system has plenty >of power power a

VNC CAPS LOCK bug

2001-05-25 Thread Levy Rami-ERL005
I've experienced a bug similar to the CAPS LOCK bug, with other modifier keys as well (shift, alt). The best way I've found to fix this problem is to press the particular modifier key in question a few times. Seems to work. I've seen this bug on multiple clients (Linux, Solaris, Mac VNCThing), so

RE: VNC Connection Freezes / Drops

2001-05-25 Thread David Lankford
Ok, Connection Freezes, Reopen Shared Mode: - Initial screen goes black (didn't the second time I tested) and the new session allows for the cursor to become active again unit it freezes again. When the cursor freezes this time, an error message appeared: RunTime Error: Program D:\Program

More on W9x halting

2001-05-25 Thread Frank Evan Perdicaro
> > I too am experiencing Windows freeze and have been working on narrowing > > down the problem. Later today I will be trying another configuration. > > The problem you describe is completely different from the problem described > by the original poster. The original problem is that updates fr

RE: possible bug report

2001-05-25 Thread John Morrison
James, I ran through the same steps again but used the command line rather than the GUI and the system still will not allow the VNC service to start. When trying to start the service I just get an access denied. The settings are configured for Log on as Automatic, also set for local system accoun

Re: Solaris vncviewer ignores -depth option

2001-05-25 Thread Edwin Goei
Hi, I haven't found a solution to my problem yet. Does this mean that there are users out there that are successfully using vncviewer with a depth greater than 8 on solaris? Here is more info about my configuration: + VNC 3.3.3r2 Binary Distribution for Unix + Solaris SunOS 5.7 + X server

RE: VNC Connection Freezes / Drops

2001-05-25 Thread David Lankford
That has been done. -Original Message- From: Jason Hatter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: VNC Connection Freezes / Drops > Jason, > Where do you check "poll full window" ? Double click on the VNC server icon in the s

RE: CAPS LOCK Bug

2001-05-25 Thread Jarvis, Mike
I have not seen any other replies than this. Did I post a bug to the wrong list? -mike -Original Message- From: Andrew Lyon [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 7:47 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: CAPS LOC

RE: AuthHosts and domain name

2001-05-25 Thread Mac Reiter
At 10:03 AM 5/25/01 -0500, you wrote: >Here's my situation - I've thought of using TZO on the client side to use >with the AuthHosts setting on the server (which doesn't look like it can be >done after further research - and with the addition of the possibility of >spoofing, as you mentioned, it i

Re: Ghosting?? / Back Orifice 2000

2001-05-25 Thread Tim Pfaltzgraff
Other than the fact that the Back Orifice 2000 web home seems to no longer exist, here are a couple of links that users should consider before using this program. The first comes from the Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center: http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/back.orifice.2000.trojan.html

RE: AuthHosts and domain name

2001-05-25 Thread Dominic Burton
Here's my situation - I've thought of using TZO on the client side to use with the AuthHosts setting on the server (which doesn't look like it can be done after further research - and with the addition of the possibility of spoofing, as you mentioned, it isn't looking too attractive even if it did

RE: VNC Icon not appearing

2001-05-25 Thread Michael Coxon
Is there a way of deliberately hiding the icon? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of James ''Wez'' Weatherall Sent: 24 May 2001 20:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VNC Icon not appearing You must ensure that the service helper runs whe

Re: AuthHosts and domain name

2001-05-25 Thread Mac Reiter
At 09:18 AM 5/25/01 -0500, you wrote: >Is it possible to successfully use a domain name (my.domain.com) _instead >of_ ip addresses in the AuthHosts registry entry? TIA Probably not. AuthHosts is a security measure, and DNS lookups are easily spoofed. IP addresses are harder to fake and still su

Re: Ghosting??

2001-05-25 Thread Mac Reiter
>What you are looking for is "Terminal Services". Or "Back Orifice 2000" (and yes, I spelled that correctly). Of course, using it quite probably opens an amazing slew of security holes, back doors, viruses, trojans, and heaven-only-knows what else on both machines (machine being controlled AND m

AuthHosts and domain name

2001-05-25 Thread Dominic Burton
Is it possible to successfully use a domain name (my.domain.com) _instead of_ ip addresses in the AuthHosts registry entry? TIA --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.255 / Virus Database: 128 - Release Date: 5/17/2001 ---

Re: Ghosting??

2001-05-25 Thread Mark Harris
What you are looking for is "Terminal Services". Mark H. Harris <>< Staff Software Engineer Software Tools Development - IBM Rochester, MN iSeries Dept EL8Y/664-3 E115 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (8) 456-6910 1-507-286-6910 ---

Re: Video Memory

2001-05-25 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
> Thanks for ur response. > Can u tell me where to find study material about writing a driver to catch > low-level video calls. ( BTW can I use windows Hooks fro that purpose.. > There may be some kind of messages passing around ). Window hooks are the method WinVNC uses. They give rough hints a

RE:Windows 2000 fun

2001-05-25 Thread Hans Vedder
Hans Vedder Oberbergischer Kreis, Der Landrat, Amt 10/3 51641 Gummersbach Tel. 02261/88-1055, Fax 02261/88-1202 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Urspr|ngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Freitag, 25. Mai 2001 07:00 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: vnc-lis