Error while waiting for server message

2002-01-17 Thread Steve Holmes
Hello group! I am hoping someone can provide guidance with this problem. I have two remote PCs running WinVNC as a service behind a Linksys NAT (ports redirected) and a cable modem. When I try to connect to either one, it accepts the password and displays the screen as it should. However, the

Re: WinVNC and CTRL+ALT+DEL can't view active remote process ?

2002-01-17 Thread Ian Simcock
If you right click on the remote computers task bar you'll get the windows menu that includes the Task Manager option. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:26 PM Subject: RE : WinVNC and CTRL+ALT+DEL can't view active

Re: Success was Re: VNC Server setup on Linux

2002-01-17 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 04:06:58PM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote: > Michael Ossmann wrote: > > > > Yeah, XDMCP runs on UDP/177, which is why it can't easily be secured > > over SSH or tested with telnet. You can use netcat or nmap to test for > > it. > > If you could give instructions on how to te

Re: Problems connecting through internet

2002-01-17 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 04:49:58PM -0600, Hotel Puesta del Sol wrote: > > At this point, I think that the problem is linked to my inablity to telnet to > the machine and I would appreciate it if anyone had suggestions as to what > might be causing this. Yes, it sounds like you are correct. This

Problems connecting through internet

2002-01-17 Thread Hotel Puesta del Sol
I am having a problem connecting to my vnc server from the internet. When I am inside my local network, I am able to connect without any problems so it seems that the application is setup correctly. In my configuration, the server is Windows 98 SE (German) and the client is Windows XP (German). T

Suggestions on server redirection behind firewall

2002-01-17 Thread Lee Brown
Can somebody point me in the right direction here. What we are trying to do is to have multiple servers which are behind a firewall. Clients can connect through a proxy/gateway machine and have their vnc session redirected to on of the servers. All clients would go to the same server. The server

Re: Success was Re: VNC Server setup on Linux

2002-01-17 Thread Joel Sherrill
David Colliver wrote: > > > David Colliver wrote: > > > > > > I would add that using the method on my site, there is more potential to > > > lose work. Clicking the X of your window will close VNC. No questions. > Also, > > > if your machine goes to sleep, you will lose it, same as if your networ

Re: Success was Re: VNC Server setup on Linux

2002-01-17 Thread Joel Sherrill
Michael Ossmann wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:55:54PM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote: > > > > Also my standard test of "telnet localhost portnumber" does not > > seem to work for 177 even though it is enabled. This is probably > > a UDP/TCP issue but that test was bogus. VNC/XDM works now a

RE: Draft 3 of the RFB 4.0 protocol

2002-01-17 Thread Andrew van der Stock
That's more of a client/server feature than a protocol feature. The protocol makes allowances to ensure that there's a clean tear down procedure. For security reasons, if a server wishes to disconnect a client, there's no point in asking any random client to disconnect - just disconnect. The reaso

RE: Success was Re: VNC Server setup on Linux

2002-01-17 Thread David Brodbeck
I found there was a very noticable slowdown when using VNC on a 100baseT local network if the host and client color depths didn't match. For example, if the host was running 8 bpp and the client was running 24 bpp, scrolling was jerky and laggy; when I bumped the host color depth up to 24 bpp it

Re: Success was Re: VNC Server setup on Linux

2002-01-17 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:55:54PM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote: > > Also my standard test of "telnet localhost portnumber" does not > seem to work for 177 even though it is enabled. This is probably > a UDP/TCP issue but that test was bogus. VNC/XDM works now and > I still can't telnet to that p

Re: Success was Re: VNC Server setup on Linux

2002-01-17 Thread David Colliver
> David Colliver wrote: > > > > I would add that using the method on my site, there is more potential to > > lose work. Clicking the X of your window will close VNC. No questions. Also, > > if your machine goes to sleep, you will lose it, same as if your network > > fails. > > But this is the same

Re: vnc connection problem

2002-01-17 Thread Alex Angelopoulos
OK, that's why the VNC FAQ had that point... You will want to mention the chipset you have for video. Also, if this is a system with AGP video using "shared" memory, you may have other problems develop. A cheap PCI video card (if you can find one any more) may be the best solution. First thi

Re: Providing (Windows) VNC support to clients that have strict...

2002-01-17 Thread Scott C. Best
Chuck: Heya. You've probably already discovered this, but there's a registry setting you need to make to your VNC server machine to allow loopback: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/winvnc.html Down at the bottom, AllowLoopback. Or, even more aggressive, try LoopbackOnly

Re: Success was Re: VNC Server setup on Linux

2002-01-17 Thread Joel Sherrill
David Colliver wrote: > > I would add that using the method on my site, there is more potential to > lose work. Clicking the X of your window will close VNC. No questions. Also, > if your machine goes to sleep, you will lose it, same as if your network > fails. But this is the same as when using

RE: vnc connection problem

2002-01-17 Thread Paul W. Mittan
You made an excellent point I never thought of... Video Driver. It's an older PC with integrated video, and while Win 98 was able to supply a nice video driver, Win 2k does not. I have an error in my device manager because I can't find a driver that will work. Anyone know of a generic driver t

Password setting by cmd shell?

2002-01-17 Thread NiteFlame
Hello, Is it possible to set a password on the command line when starting vnc.exe on a windows host? Thanks for helping! Yours, Markus - To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message

Re: Success was Re: VNC Server setup on Linux

2002-01-17 Thread David Colliver
I would add that using the method on my site, there is more potential to lose work. Clicking the X of your window will close VNC. No questions. Also, if your machine goes to sleep, you will lose it, same as if your network fails. What I would like to know now is, is there a button or something I

Success was Re: VNC Server setup on Linux

2002-01-17 Thread Joel Sherrill
Hi All, Thanks for the help and instructions. I would like to proudly state that we are now running VNC server on two Linux boxes and clients on a handful of Linux and Windows boxes (a mix of WinME laptops and Win2K desktops). Some notes for the instructions. I don't think RedHat 7.1 was a pro

Re: Draft 3 of the RFB 4.0 protocol

2002-01-17 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:57:02AM -0500, Alex Angelopoulos wrote: > > Regrettably, as someone whose skills lie in the area of IT support, my > contributions will be limited to Monday-morning quarterbacking (and > probably answering Win32 VNC questions while people are away from this > list mulli

RE: Providing (Windows) VNC support to clients that have strict corporate firewalls

2002-01-17 Thread Steve Palocz
The key you need to set on the client to allow ssh on the machine to forward connection to it is: Hkey_local_machine\software\orl\winvnc3 Dword: allowloopback set it to 1 to allow and 0 (default) to not allow. If your connections are only comming through ssh. You can in the same spot set a key of

Re: ConnectPriority

2002-01-17 Thread Alex Angelopoulos
Reposting this - I didn't see it pop up and I posted a couple of hours ago- = Barring a quick answer from anyone else - Export the following two registry keys and send them to the list. This is where everything VNCish live

problem with drag-and-drop operation under RedHat 7.1

2002-01-17 Thread Liz Buckley-Geer
Hi, I have searched through the mail archives and cannot find an answer to the problem I am having. A little background: I have an electronic logbook application written in Java with a Java display. The application runs on RedHat Linux. I need to send the display over the network but being Java i

vncserver -depth 16 crashes imagetool on PC ???

2002-01-17 Thread Leite, Keith
Hello Folks ... Here is my dilema, I have successfully connect to my Solaris box and was able to get the CDE desktop to appear on my laptop. But when I open the "imagetool" application and load a picture (JPG) it seems to crash when I have my dep

Re: vnc connection problem

2002-01-17 Thread Alex Angelopoulos
The thanks is a bit premature... Your settings are identical to mine, which works perfectly. Two other things to check at this point. They are longer shots but are more likely since we've eliminated a few things by verifying that your config is plain vanilla. (1) Are you using the default Win

RE: vnc connection problem

2002-01-17 Thread Paul W. Mittan
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\Default AutoPortSelect 0x0001 (1) InputsEnabled 0x0001 (1) LocalInputsDisabled 0x (0) OnlyPollConsole 0x0001 (1) OnlyPollOnEvent 0x (0) PollForeground 0x0001 (1) PollFullScreen

Re: WinVNC and CTRL+ALT+DEL can't view active remote process ?

2002-01-17 Thread Alex Angelopoulos
Let me ask another question since you say that. Is the system running Windows 95/98/Me? If yes, you simply can't use Ctl-Alt-Del - it halts all system processes on that architecture. The alternative is to use some "alternate" tools as you thought. One possibility if youhave access to the WIn

Re: Draft 3 of the RFB 4.0 protocol

2002-01-17 Thread ANDRONICO, SAM
Andrew, will there be a feature that will allow the server to drop it's connection after a specified time of no activity? -- Sam Andronico Broadcast Services Tel. (416) 215-5750 Fax (416) 861-1824 Andrew van der Stock wrote: > > (This will be the second last announcement to the main VNC

how do I get VNC to recognize Alt-Tab?

2002-01-17 Thread Frank S. Kim
I am guessing this is impossible but is there anyway to get my VNC session to recognize when I am doing an Alt-Tab for switching windows. Thanks, Frank - To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-lis

Re: Alt key not recognized in VNC session

2002-01-17 Thread Frank S. Kim
Hi Mike, Thanks for the help! Setting that option when calling vncserver fixes it! :-) Frank Original Message = > > However when I start XEmacs in a VNC sessioni and press the Alt key, XEmacs > complains that it does not recognize the Alt key. This is not a problem > thou

Re: ConnectPriority

2002-01-17 Thread tmillar
Well, I made the changes on the server, now the entry sits in HKLM and HKCU...but when connecting from one station then from another, the first one gets kicked out...I am connecting from Win95 station...does that make a difference? I also did as another person suggested, changed the priority f

RE : WinVNC and CTRL+ALT+DEL can't view active remote process ?

2002-01-17 Thread Jean-Pierre.Verheecke
Thank you i tried this but unfortunately it doesn't display anything on remote vnc server and on vnc viewer client. Have you another idea ? -Message d'origine- De : Alex Angelopoulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoyi : jeudi 17 janvier 2002 13:18 @ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: WinVNC

Solaris 8 inetd

2002-01-17 Thread Roger Hale
I'm trying to get Xvnc -inetd working on a SPARC Solaris 8 system. The behaviour I'm seeing is that a window does open when I connect from a vncviewer, but dies again almost immediately before the login screen appears. The log file indicates that Xvnc started, but doesn't indicate an error (oth

Re: vnc connection problem

2002-01-17 Thread Alex Angelopoulos
Not sure about this - it sounds like it accepts your password, then sees another problem. Could you please post the following two registry keys from the Win2K server which disconnects you? HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\Default HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3 They will both be

Re: WinVNC and CTRL+ALT+DEL can't view active remote process ?

2002-01-17 Thread Alex Angelopoulos
Use SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+DEL Took me a while to figure that one out first time. It works with the VNCViewer, the Java web interface, and the ActiveX control. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday/2002 January 17 03:17 Subject: WinVNC and CTRL+

Fw: Server2000 login connection problem - help!

2002-01-17 Thread Alex Angelopoulos
- Original Message - From: "3wDesign" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday/2002 January 17 04:23 Subject: Re: Server2000 login connection problem - help! : yesit was a problem betweekn the HKLM and the HKCU setup. There was a : PortNumber difference and an Aut

RE: ConnectPriority

2002-01-17 Thread pierre . marchand
Tracy, I have configured it with 'Don't disconnect any existing connections' and it works fine. Did you put it in the good registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WINVNC3 ? Did you restart your VNC service? Regards Pierre MARCHAND AFNOR > -Message d'origine- > De: [EMAIL PROTE

WinVNC and CTRL+ALT+DEL can't view active remote process ?

2002-01-17 Thread Jean-Pierre.Verheecke
Hi, Does anyone has a solution to view active process on remote server winvnc ? When the remote user use ctrl+alt+del key the active process are displayed on the remote pc but not on the winvnc viewer pc. So have you a solution to do this even with anther way or another windows command or another