Re: Screen Resolution ???

2002-01-02 Thread Michael Milette
An alternative to the experimental scaling solution provided by other might be to simply use the VNC in full screen mode. You won't see the hosts full screen if your clients resolution is lower than the host but the scroll bars will be gone. Then simply move the mouse past the edge of the scree

Re: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread Dave Warren
> And by ridiculing people, do you find you convert them? Sorry for the post to the list, I was intending to send that directly to the person I was replying too, but sleepy fingers sent the email off before fixing the little "To" header details. Happy 2002! -- The nice thing about standards, t

Re: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread Dave Warren
> Hey, that's a good idea. Maybe we could call it Linux, and give it away > for free, but then, people who refuse to stop using the inferior product > for mostly irrational reasons (ever heard of game theory?) would > constantly make it hard for us with their incompatible protocols and > inferior

RE: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread ScanMan
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 12:59, Lee Douglas wrote: > Here's my New Year's suggestion (not resolution). How about if all of those > folks who /really/ don't like Windows get together and form another news > group / list where they can chant things like "windose" and M$, and the > like all day long

Re: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread A friend
> Perhaps the title should be video layer storage and transmission? My fault, the s behind Window was a bit too much with hindsight, and I always use caps at the start of a sentence. In the original text, I used the word 'window' and did not refer to a product of a specific manufacturer (besides

Re: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:58:12AM -0600, ScanMan wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 03:55, A friend wrote: > > Why not, for the server, for the client it's no problem for sure. Is > > it not possible to capture the image from within a single window > > within MS-Windows? I think it is, since Alt-Pri

RE: Weird quirk in MSDOS batch wrapper for vncveiwer

2002-01-02 Thread Shing-Fat (Fred) Ma
Thanks, John. I'll keep your suggestion in mind for a later date, but at this time, I've had to drop that problem. Fred -- Fred Ma Department of Electronics Carleton University, Mackenzie Building 1125 Colonel By Drive Otta

Re: ssh RSA key fingerprint differs from ssh_host_key.pub SOLVED

2002-01-02 Thread Shing-Fat (Fred) Ma
I'm not sure if these should have been obvious or not, but as a newbie, I've run into a few details that could save days. These pertain to Frank Stajano's instructions (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/sshwin.html), which are based on a system different from my own. I'm using cygwin on WinME t

DSL problems and compression

2002-01-02 Thread Frank Evan Perdicaro
> Subject: DSL system and no screen update > Jeff, > > > The modem connection worked and continues to work. The DSL connection > > refuses to work. We can ping all available machines, have put a > > sniffer on the server and verified that viewer packets are being sent > > and received. However wh

Re: Initial Screen Loading, solved

2002-01-02 Thread Heinz Hase
Hello again After one hint in the list, I could solve the problem by decreasing (!) the MTU on my computer. This isn't only a problem with DSL! We had the problem on a switched tokenring. I will have to talk with our WAN-Guys, which part of the whole network makes the problem. Urs Mueller, Berne

Re: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread De Vos Rudi
Perhaps the title should be video layer storage and transmission? Most of the code already exist in the rdp2vnc (somewhere in the contributed part). You should realy check this source code. Rdp use good caching for bitmaps and fonts. Text is send as acsii followed by the description (size, font

Re: WinVNC and AllowProperties

2002-01-02 Thread MichaelLashinsky
Wow! Hey Alex, Thanks!! That was some answer. It wasn't exactly what I was asking but it did help answer the question anyway. I was having trouble when I entered the dword AllowProperties (0) to disable the properties function on the systray icon, sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn

RE: "5" became "backspace" on linux xvnc connection

2002-01-02 Thread David Brodbeck
This is a problem with the Linux key mappings. Do a search of the mailing list archives and you should turn up the fix. -Original Message- From: Christopher Luk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 3:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "5" became "backspace" on l

RE: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread Greg Breland
How about eveyone who takes their OS choice personally form another mailing list? Why can't people take gratuitous slaps at Windows,Linux, Mac, Beos or any other OS on the planet. Especially if it is true? The fact that Windows puts the GUI in the kernel DOES suck. It makes certain things(li

"5" became "backspace" on linux xvnc connection

2002-01-02 Thread Christopher Luk
hi, as title. i work with vnc a few years on some windows machines. then, tonight i want to try it on my linux machine. binary copy "vnc-3.3.3r2_x86_linux_2.0.tgz" was installed and workable. after a while of testing on Xvnc with different desktop, i found that while i press "5" on the top row of

Re: WinVNC and AllowProperties

2002-01-02 Thread Alex Angelopoulos
I assume your main issue is passwords not showing up appropriately. I haven't sat down to determine the best procedure for making things uniform. Here is what I *believe* happens - please, someone correct the details... First, remember that VNC wants to be multi-user in an inherently single-us

WinVNC and AllowProperties

2002-01-02 Thread MichaelLashinsky
Happy New Year Everyone!! I have been working with VNC in my company and am starting to deploy it throughout my company. My strategy is to install as a service, (Dis)AllowProperties and RemoveWallpaper in the Windows Registry. Manually delete the viewers on my user's computers, and remove

RE: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread Lee Douglas
Hi folks! I kept the following in my out box for 4+ hours before sending. I really don't want to get into a flaming contest, but I'm one of what I suspect are many who get awfully tired of the entirely gratuitous continuing slaps at Windows and Windows users. They really don't contribute anyth

Re: Screen Resolution ???

2002-01-02 Thread Alex Angelopoulos
I assume you mean (1280x768) possibly... Not that it matters for this. I also assume you are using Windows as your laptop platform for Method (1); for Method (2), you could have a Unix platform but the description is for a Windows host. There are two ways to do this; one is experimental, the o

Re: Screen Resolution ???

2002-01-02 Thread Lee Douglas
Keith, I had the same problem. VNC Commander will let you scale the host screen by % factors. VNC will let you play with screen definition which isn't as satisfactory. Recommend you look at VNC Commander. You can get a free version of Tony Caduto's work http://www.milwaukeesoft.com/vnccommand

Screen Resolution ???

2002-01-02 Thread Leite, Keith
Greetings ... I have a question not sure if this software package allows you to do this but I currently connect to a VNCserver (1280x764) with a laptop and I have to move the column bars around with the mouse to be able to see the whole screen. Is there

RE: SSH Windows to Linux

2002-01-02 Thread James Pifer
Problem turned out to be the login. I was not logging in as root in the SSH session. Once I did that it works. Not sure where to give a different user the same functionality, but at least I know where the problem is. Thanks. James At 10:53 AM 1/2/2002 -0500, you wrote: >I don't use SSH Secure

Re: xauth issues

2002-01-02 Thread Steve Blinkhorn
Thanks for your help: at least you've set me straight as to what counts as the server in a vnc context. I think some of the xauth issues are related to what my notebook thinks it's called when it on dialup as compared with when it's on the office LAN, and what the dialup service thinks it's call

RE: SSH Windows to Linux

2002-01-02 Thread David Brodbeck
I don't use SSH Secure Shell, but my guess is you have two problems here: The window-in-a-window effect happens when you connect to a VNC server on the same machine as the viewer you're running. You must have a server running on display 0? You probably want to set your OUTGOING tunnel to listen

Re: xauth issues

2002-01-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > > I'm having some difficulties accessing vnc servers running in my > office from viewers on dialup machines elsewhere. When the remote > machine is running RedHat Linux 7.1, I frequently get an error message > to the effect that the client is not permitted thus: > > X

RE: Weird quirk in MSDOS batch wrapper for vncveiwer

2002-01-02 Thread A. John Peters
Try winbatch fron Wilson software WWW.windowware.com. We use it all the time -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex Angelopoulos Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 3:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Weird quirk in MSDOS batch wrapper f

RE: SSH Windows to Linux

2002-01-02 Thread Leite, Keith
Greetings, I have been following the this message thread and I would like to say that I am trying to accomplish the same thing here. I am using SSH Secure Shell for Windows and I think I configured it correctly. I set my OUTGOING Tunnel to listen on Port 22 and the DEST Host is localhost and the

Re: Configuration questions

2002-01-02 Thread Janyne Kizer
I would like for some ids (helpdesk folks) to be able to connect via VNC. Other IDs should not be able to connect via VNC at all. It doesn't matter to me if the desktop is persistent or not. ScanMan wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 06:35, Janyne Kizer wrote: > > Since I know my system uses x

RE: Help needed with video driver

2002-01-02 Thread De Vos Rudi
A bit more info. Before you can ext vnc, I need to find a way to pass the bitmaps from the video driver to the vncserver. I wrote a mirror video driver. (http://services.simac.be/vnc/winvncdrv/index.htm). This driver capture all changed regions and pass the rectangle info to the vncserver. Debu

RE: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread Erlichmen, Shay
Hi, There is a better way to a approach this I'm sure that a certain level the system tell you that it is going to blit an image, all you need to-do is send only once the image to the viewer, next time that the same image is going to be blitted all you need to-do is send which image to blit. -S

RE: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread Erlichmen, Shay
Hi, The tools to implement are available, the problem is the quality of the solution. What you suggested is the same as considering each application as a VNCServer and connecting to them all at once. Without a proper caching and manager window layer that needs to exist on the client side (this

Re: Configuration questions

2002-01-02 Thread ScanMan
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 06:35, Janyne Kizer wrote: > Since I know my system uses xintetd to start services and I wouldl ike > to run VNC as a service that starts on reboot, I thought perhaps I > needed to to something in there. Do you want to run a desktop server, where each incoming connection gen

RE:

2002-01-02 Thread Kieran McKenna
One other possibility is that your DSL provider is blocking some ports. So you might be able to make the control connection, but not the data connection. As I understand it VNC uses two ports for each connection. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Beha

Re: Configuration questions

2002-01-02 Thread Janyne Kizer
The problem is that following these directions did not work: "If you're using Red Hat, just install the vnc package. Then edit /etc/sysconfig/vncservers and start the vncserver daemon in /etc/rc.d/init.d" Since I know my system uses xintetd to start services and I wouldl ike to run VNC as a serv

BLACK screen on VNC viewer

2002-01-02 Thread Ivan Kozhuharov
VNC client and server - Windows NT. Autorization is OK, but I see only BLACK screen. Any Help? - To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att

Re: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread A friend
>> Why not, for the server, for the client it's no problem for sure. Is it not >> possible to capture the image from within a single window within MS-Windows? >> I think it is, since Alt-PrintScreen does the same thing. Monitoring window >> creation/deletion must be possible too. > Hmmm, yes, I di

Re: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread ScanMan
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 03:55, A friend wrote: > Why not, for the server, for the client it's no problem for sure. Is it not > possible to capture the image from within a single window within MS-Windows? > I think it is, since Alt-PrintScreen does the same thing. Monitoring window > creation/deletio

RE: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread ScanMan
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 03:43, Erlichmen, Shay wrote: > Wow, do you program with the those filthy fingers. "If you don't have > something nice to say to don't say nothing at all". Very clever, Miss Manners. > Now, "A Friend" The idea the you suggested is already implemented in Citrix, > and it wou

Re: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread A friend
> > graphical buffer is kept and transmitted by VNC. Since most (if not all) OSses > > are window based, is it not more efficient to keep (and send) a separate > > buffer for each window that is opened. So when switching, closing or moving a > Unfortunately, this wouldn't work on crap OS's like Wi

RE: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread Erlichmen, Shay
Wow, do you program with the those filthy fingers. "If you don't have something nice to say to don't say nothing at all". Now, "A Friend" The idea the you suggested is already implemented in Citrix, and it would be hell to implement on any OS "Crapy" or not. -Shay Erlichmen. -Original Messa

DSL system and no screen update

2002-01-02 Thread Richard Harris
Jeff, > The modem connection worked and continues to work. The DSL connection > refuses to work. We can ping all available machines, have put a > sniffer on the server and verified that viewer packets are being sent > and received. However whenever we connect we enter the password, with > no erro

Re: Is there a "view only" mode?

2002-01-02 Thread Rasmus Emil Møller
Hello, "View only" is already implemented in the TightVNC version 1.2.2. Actually, it is documented in the javasource: 1: download "tightvnc-1.2.2_javasrc.zip" from www.tightvnc.com 2: look at the top of the file "ChangeLog" - together with the HTML templates in the .vnc files, you should be all

Re: Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread ScanMan
Unfortunately, this wouldn't work on crap OS's like Windose. On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 02:19, A friend wrote: > Don't know if this item has come up yet, but it seems to me that only one > graphical buffer is kept and transmitted by VNC. Since most (if not all) OSses > are window based, is it not more

Windows layer storage/transmission.

2002-01-02 Thread A friend
Don't know if this item has come up yet, but it seems to me that only one graphical buffer is kept and transmitted by VNC. Since most (if not all) OSses are window based, is it not more efficient to keep (and send) a separate buffer for each window that is opened. So when switching, closing or mov