Re: Bad Review of VNC at CNET

2001-09-17 Thread Dave Warren
Poor guy is just sore 'cause he doesn't know what a "service" is, couldn't figure out the mailing list, and couldn't figure out how to install it, and the official support is equal to the price. Why should I pay $99 (Or whatever PCAnywhere is) for tech support I don't need, and a GUI I don't want

Re: Bad Review of VNC at CNET

2001-09-17 Thread Dave Warren
> I think it is clear where this review falls. It is interesting how 'issues' > are pointed out (having to know the ip is the best!), issues which exist in > competing products (how else do you connect with PCAnywhere? Voodoo? Magic > wand?) Nope, PCAnywhere advertises that it's running. I loade

Re: Bad Review of VNC at CNET

2001-09-17 Thread Marius Zydyk
Yes, this is a pretty bad, one-sided review, seems like the author set out from the beginning with an agenda. In case you're wondering, this is a pretty typical software review, direct links to only one competing package are a clear indication of something happening behind the scenes. Here's a so

Re: x0rfbserver

2001-09-17 Thread Stephen Walton
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Ceri Hankey wrote: > 1)kde will NOT permit the SAME user to use more than ONE graphic > interface. One nice feature of CDE, at least on HP-UX, is that you can create subdirectories of the .cde directory with names consisting of the machine name, a colon, and the display

RE: Bad Review of VNC at CNET

2001-09-17 Thread Andrew van der Stock
There are problems with the review, but we should take the valid criticisms on board. Documentation could be improved, particularly for first time users. Dialog boxes could be better from a purist HCI point of view Security can be made easier (particularly the hidden AuthHost stuff) Localization

RE: Bad Review of VNC at CNET

2001-09-17 Thread Glenn Mabbutt
Slight correction: PcAnywhere version 8 can talk to ver. 9 and vice versa - I do it at work all the time (if pca hasn't crashed previously ;). I think it would be useful if you put an emphasis on the "open" nature of VNC - a benefit that allows continuous and rapid improvement to the product, as

Re: Bad Review of VNC at CNET

2001-09-17 Thread James Pifer
Greg, I'm with you . That review was very bad. It seemed as though the author had blinders or was biased against VNC going into it. One feature of VNC that I find I use a lot is the copying/pasting to the clipboard. The fact that I can copy stuff from the machine I'm remote controlling and and t

Bad Review of VNC at CNET

2001-09-17 Thread Greg Breland
I read a very bad review of VNC on CNET today. http://www.cnet.com/software/0-3227892-1205-7056561.html?tag=st.sw.3227892-1204-7056561.rev.3227892-1205-7056561 The review was so bad, that I feel it needs to be responded to to correct the blantent errors and misinformation contained in it. I have

Re: x0rfbserver

2001-09-17 Thread Ceri Hankey
I , too, have been trying to get kde to work with vnc and have come up with the following conclusions... 1)kde will NOT permit the SAME user to use more than ONE graphic interface. 2)you can specify kde, SO LONG AS you are not already logged into the system and using KDE! 3)I think t

x0rfbserver

2001-09-17 Thread John Clegg
I have got VNC on Linux working quite well, but it doesn't quite do what I want to do (plus it crashes KDE if I try and run it instead of twm, which is truly horrible!) I would love to install x0rfbserver on my (Mandrake 8) system, but I don't yet know enough to work out how the hell to do it! Is

RE: exiting window manager doesn't stop vncviewer

2001-09-17 Thread Stephen Walton
I just tried -once and it doesn't help on either Linux/KDE or HP-UX/CDE. Hitting Logout/exit/whatever causes some things to shut down but not Xvnc itself. There is something about how these window managers signal the X server that they've exited which isn't handled correctly by Xvnc. This is a l

RE: X server mix-up

2001-09-17 Thread Dor Juravski
How do I do that ? I mean - tell machine A to handle it's own xdm and not machine B's xdm If there is a hole in my unix knowledge it is the X servers and their manipulations :( -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lee Allen Sent: Tuesday, Sept

Re: Off Topic

2001-09-17 Thread Lee Allen
James Pifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this forum has a lot of Linux experience. Can anyone suggest a good > Linux forum? RedHat specific if possible? Hopefully somthing that has good > membership and timely responses such as this one. I don't know if you received any responses to this

Re: X server mix-up

2001-09-17 Thread Lee Allen
You probably have multiple Unix systems running 'xdm'. You can disable xdm on the 'other system' if you don't need it there... or modify the xdm config files on each system to configure which clients (well, X servers) they are responsible for. -Lee Allen - Original Message - From: Dor J

X server mix-up

2001-09-17 Thread Dor Juravski
Hello, I have configured a vnc-server (using inetd services) on my machine and I am using a a viewer on a win2k system. The unix-server is a digital-unix v 4.0F. The problem is that when I open a session I see I have logged on an X session of a DIFFERENT computer on my local network. How can thi

SOLUTION - Re: AW: password protected screensaver causes "connection closed by peer"

2001-09-17 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
Got it working with TightVNC from a DOS window using "winvnc -install", as suggest in the FAQ question 28. Sorry to bother the list with my saga. - To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to

RE: vnc-list-digest V1 #1273

2001-09-17 Thread David Brodbeck
I think the difference is in AT&T VNC, ? will only *reject* the connection if the user doesn't respond. TridiaVNC will let you configure it to either accept or reject. -Original Message- From: James ''Wez'' Weatherall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 1:56 PM To

VNC authentication/authorization

2001-09-17 Thread Bala Sambandam
Hello, I'm in the process of making changes to the 3.3.9r2 source for winvnc and the 3.3.3r2 source for the Java vncviewer to handle NT domain authentication and authorization. I had to create a new rfb protocol with some minor changes. I've called it 003.004 for now. It's backward compatible

Re: AW: password protected screensaver causes "connection closed by peer"

2001-09-17 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
I have a default password for VNC. It doesn't matter whether it matches my Win2K network password or not. In neither case will a vncviewer session survive Win2K asking for a password after locking the Win2K screen. Default resolution? User resolution? I'm not finding this.

Re: vnc-list-digest V1 #1273

2001-09-17 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
> I know that TridiaVNC has a registry setting to allow > the "?" ipchain in the AuthHosts registry key to allow > access to a machine if there is no response from the > user(in case the user is not there and there is a need > to control the machine) > > VNC from AT&T does not have this setting.

Re: Regarding Xvnc on solaris 8 on intel(x86)

2001-09-17 Thread Andreas Schmidt
Hello, I have a compiled package of 3.3.3r1 (not 2!) on my homepage. You can get it at http://www.dus-spot.de/vnc/xvnc.tar.gz - included is a adapted vncserver-script, so that CDE can be used. Bye, Andreas > Hi, > > Currently, on the VNC web site on have VNC for solaris(SPARC) system. > > I

RE: Ctrl + Esc in NT

2001-09-17 Thread John Clegg
I have no problem with that - I found it fairly self evident. However that doesn't make it any less a pain to operate! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stefane Bridy > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gray Screen problem when connecting

2001-09-17 Thread John Muscarello
I'm running VNC on two NT servers. The servers are not on the local network. One is New York and the other is in Philadelphia. I connect via a T1 and the internet. When I try to view the Philly machine, the connection is successful but all I see on the New York end is a gray screen and the mes

RE: Bandwidth Limitation of VNC

2001-09-17 Thread David Brodbeck
My own experience was that on a fast network, it worked best if the client and server had the *same* color depth, I think because of the overhead of converting from one to another. (If this conversion happens in the client, this may be particularly important for viewers that run on relatively slo

RE: WinVNC and W2K Server "Connectino Closed" message.

2001-09-17 Thread J. Eric Josephson
I've tried both as a service and as an application with the same results. I have also looked for any output on the server console and have not seen any Thanks for looking at this. -- J. Eric Josephson 978-356-3506 978-265-6295 Cellular mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: "jejosephso" -

Regarding Xvnc on solaris 8 on intel(x86)

2001-09-17 Thread Colin
Hi, Currently, on the VNC web site on have VNC for solaris(SPARC) system. I wandering is there any version for solaris 8 intel version. I need them urgently. Could anyone who have compiled the package send an email w/ them attach to me. Many thanxs, Colin ---

RE: Massive unanswerable problem with CDE & VNC.

2001-09-17 Thread Glenn Lovitz
Mike, I went through all the same hassle awhile back. The problem is the way CDE works. You log in through an Xserver and there is only one surefire way to get the dtlogin sequence correct -- place an entry into /etc/dt/config/Xservers. Note: the path shown /usr/local/vnc is my vnc install path

VNC Server for VMS

2001-09-17 Thread Bruno . ALAPETITE
Does exist a VNC server for VMS(6.2) or is somebody working on it , I did not find an answer in the archives. Could somebody give me some informations about the job to do such a port (delay, difficulties, traps ...) ? If somebody began the job in the past, is it posible to get it's sources ?

RE: AW: password protected screensaver causes "connection closed by peer"

2001-09-17 Thread Steve Palocz
Try setting the default password, also make sure the default resolution is the same as the user. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kevin Cosgrove Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 2:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: passwo

RE: Connection Closed, T_DISCONNECT message

2001-09-17 Thread Steve Palocz
try setting your Colours to at least 256, 16 bit is the best. Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Antonio Gould Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 5:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Connection Closed, T_DISCONNECT message Hi Ste

RE: Needing informations

2001-09-17 Thread Steve Palocz
Yes, Vnc is multi user (under terminal server, and stand alone). allowing each user to have his own password when he/she is logged in. So to change the system (at login or lock screen) you need to enter the default password found in start -> programs -> vnc -> administrative tools -> show default

Re: Off Topic

2001-09-17 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi James, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] go to https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list to subscribe Gary On Friday 14 September 2001 8:42 pm, you wrote: > I know this forum has a lot of Linux experience. Can anyone suggest a good > Linux forum? RedHat specific if possible? Hopefully somth

Needing informations

2001-09-17 Thread stleroux
Hello, First question: I am using your Fabulous product under a LAN using Windows NT4. I wished to change the password on the servers I support, and so used the "Service helper" in which I made the change being logged as Administrator. It appeared that after unlogging the remote ser

RE: Connection Closed, T_DISCONNECT message

2001-09-17 Thread Antonio Gould
Hi Steve, Thanks for the reply. In answer to your questions: I had vnc working this way by using application mode (although this doesn't seem to work now). Other than that, no. The colours are set to 16 colours. This is becuase the server is only using the on-board graphics (as it never shou

Re: Bandwidth Limitation of VNC

2001-09-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Steven Venn wrote: > Also does anybody know how we can modify the software to make best use > of the bandwidth available to the software. A lot has to do with the encoding method you choose. Are you using "copyrect hextile" or something else? If the former, you may want to t

Bandwidth Limitation of VNC

2001-09-17 Thread Steven Venn
We are trying to use Win VNC to view maps & info via a remote terminal, with this degree of complexity of information the update is very slow. Our VNC client needs to run on a Compaq IPAQ which kind of rules out TightVNC. I have tried both our Wireless network and wired network, with the client an