RE: Hidden icon

2002-02-21 Thread Tony Wright
If you check out the documentation you should find some registry entries that prevent users accessing the Properties page or exiting the program. Tony Wright -Original Message- From: Scott Yarbrough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 February 2002 21:43 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:

RE: Connecting from work to home

2002-02-21 Thread Scott C. Best
Nick: Heya. Sorry for the late reply. Most firewalls that a company would use come "out of box" with only a handful of external services reachable. That is, the firewalls will allow anyone to connect to FTP, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS and SMTP. That's about it. For example, an "ICSA approved" fir

RE: Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-21 Thread Tony Shum
Henry, You may want to add the "vncserver -kill" statement to your vncserver script or update your xstartup file. At lease you won't get the grey screen, becasue when WM exit, vnc will also exit. Sometime I wonder why they don't add the "vncserver -kill" in the xstartup session!!! Goo

Re: Interesting W2K Behaviour?

2002-02-21 Thread Christopher Hunt
Hi there, The problem was with the escape key. If you press the escape key while using a Mac VNC Viewer (could also be true of other viewers) while in W2K, I get the access denied messages from W2K. Pressing the escape key again recovers. -C vnc-list-digest wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17

RE: Hidden icon

2002-02-21 Thread Jacob Hoover
I would suggest using Remote Task Manager. I have been using this software for some time now and have been totally in love with it. It isn't really a fix for the problem but rather a workaround. It allows you to remotley administer shares, processes, services, devices, the event log ... http:/

Hidden icon

2002-02-21 Thread Scott Yarbrough
I saw some of the discussion in the archives regarding hiding the VNC icon.. I didn't see if anyone had a good method.. What I am needing to do on the network here isn't necessarily hiding the VNC icon to keep users from knowing its being used, but to keep them from CLOSING THE PROGRAM.. We have

scripting

2002-02-21 Thread Scott Yarbrough
I saw a msg someone mentioned using a Kixstart script to upgrade their servers to TightVNC? Can someone post a sample of how they did that? Thanks --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.325 / Virus Database: 182 - Rel

Trouble compiling on a Sparc/Linux

2002-02-21 Thread Ben Hyland
Hi folks, I'm running Suse 7.1 on a Sparc Ultra5, and I'm having some trouble installing VNC. The rpm I installed from the Suse CDs gave me a garbled display on my Windows 2000 client, and a quick Google turned up a few people having the same problem on Sparc/Linux I've followed the advice given

sgi compile error: libvnc.a

2002-02-21 Thread Greg Paradis
I am getting a compile error: don't know how to make hw/vnc/libvnc.a (bu42) I can't find libvnc.a file anywhere in the vnc_unixsrc tree (including under hw/vnc). Should I be looking somewhere else? There is no mention of this in any of the archived postings. Greg Paradis E.I.T. M.Sc. Candidate

Re: Security Holes

2002-02-21 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:56:42PM +0100, Patrick Corneli_en wrote: > > are there any known security holes in VNC? > I'd like to use it on my server and the server has a public-static-IP > adress. Some would say that VNC _is_ a security hole. The authentication method looks somewhat secure, b

Re: Xvnc on inetd to be accessed from netscape

2002-02-21 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:30:03PM +0100, "Beerse, Corni" wrote: > Thanks to http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp, I finaly > have vnc running as i like it. However, if Xvnc is started from the > vncserver script, I can also access it from netscape, with the inetd > startup, I ca

Re: The vnc right-click problem

2002-02-21 Thread Freddy Jensen
>From: Mark Rainford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 5:12am >To: adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subj: Re: The vnc right-click problem > >This fixes the right mouse button problem for us!

appologies - test

2002-02-21 Thread Greg Paradis
Sorry, but my postings are not appearing. Greg Paradis E.I.T. M.Sc. Candidate Office phone: (506) 452-6354 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [demime 0.97b removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat] - To

Re: Design Document for VNC

2002-02-21 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:09:34PM +0530, Gaurav wrote: > I am a new bie to vnc . Where can i find design document for it . > Any white papers / research work will help a lot, http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/docs.html particularly the "detailed paper" pdf at the top and the "How VNC works" an

Re: Hardware Version of VNC?

2002-02-21 Thread Steven Stringham
Try this. http://www.avocent.com/Cybex/PublicW2.nsf/gwmsfsDSSeries?OpenFrameSet Not cheap. But describes pretty much what you want. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12:04:48 PM 02/21/2002 >>> OK then, strip out some of the complex functionality. Assume I have a linux server in a colocation facility. It d

Re: Hardware Version of VNC?

2002-02-21 Thread William Harrison
OK then, strip out some of the complex functionality. Assume I have a linux server in a colocation facility. It doesn't use any graphical apps anyway. All I really need is keyboard and monitor control so, if need be, I can see an error message on the screen (like when updating to a new kernel, a

Re: Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-21 Thread David Colliver
> You should consider the init configuration as described on > http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp. If you're a real > unix administrator, you can convert these settings to solaris and off you > go, no need to telnet at all. > And if you get it working on solaris using the con

Security Holes

2002-02-21 Thread Patrick Cornelißen
Hello vnc-list, are there any known security holes in VNC? I'd like to use it on my server and the server has a public-static-IP adress. -- Bye, Patrick Cornelissen http://www.P-C-Software.de ICQ:15885533 [demime 0.97b removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had

Re: VNC on Sun Solaris v8

2002-02-21 Thread Andreas Schmidt
Hello Karl, I use the server on Solaris 8 X86 with the clients on Windows- systems exporting my CDE-desktop. It works without any problems. Bye, Andreas > Does anyone run VNC on Sun Solaris v8? If so, how well does it work? I'd > like something that mirrors what we use on the Windows servers,

RE: Big problem with the VNC service on WIN32

2002-02-21 Thread Glenn Mabbutt
Someone posted a fairly detailed description of what exactly is happening some months ago - search the archives for more details. I have not heard anything about changing this, although I think it would be incredibly useful... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: Design Document for VNC

2002-02-21 Thread Glenn Mabbutt
I believe the underlying RFB protocol is available in an RFC document. Try searching via Google. -Original Message- From: Gaurav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 12:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Design Document for VNC Dear Group, I am a new bie to vn

Big problem with the VNC service on WIN32

2002-02-21 Thread tony . caduto
I have noticed that when running as a service VNC is the first thing to shutdown. This can cause problems when doing a reboot if another app or service displays a error message. PC anywhere does not do this. It actually happened to me the other day when I rebooted a server remotely, a error messag

Design Document for VNC

2002-02-21 Thread Gaurav
Dear Group, I am a new bie to vnc . Where can i find design document for it . Any white papers / research work will help a lot, Cheers Gaurav _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -

RE: Strange problem with SSH tunneling

2002-02-21 Thread David Brodbeck
While it's true NT only supports one virtual display, you can make it whatever display number you want. If he's configured it to be display 1, then 5901 is correct. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL

Ports

2002-02-21 Thread tgraham
I read as a security measure to change the operational port of VNC. How is this done in NT/2k? - To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att

RE: Question about using VNC with DSL

2002-02-21 Thread Jacob Hoover
Look at the docs to set up static NAT http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/794/675_faq.shtml#Q15 Should be something like this, set nat entry add 10.0.0.2 20 216.160.92.4 20 tcp -Original Message- From: Richardson, Noah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 1:26 PM

RE : Hardware Version of VNC?

2002-02-21 Thread Gabor D. Kiss
Why does the AXEL brochure specify Unix and Linux servers but say nothing about Windows and others? Their product is the vnc graphics terminal, right? The server that runs on the Unix/Linux box is ordinary vnc, so it could just as easily be Windows, no? Or do you think they've tweaked the server

Re: Hardware Version of VNC?

2002-02-21 Thread Lee Allen
> It's already done in Europe ... ;-) > > http://www.axel.com/focus/vnc_e.html > As I understand the original post, this is not at all what is desired. -Lee Allen - To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubs

RE: Strange problem with SSH tunneling

2002-02-21 Thread tgraham
If you uncheck allow localhost and it works, then there is somethihng wrong in your SSH setup. Also when using NT, I use the connect string of ssh -L 5900:localhost:5900 -l username servername I don't think you can use 5901 on NT because it only supports 1 virtual display. 590x is valid for

RE : Hardware Version of VNC?

2002-02-21 Thread Francis VIVAT
Hi, It's already done in Europe ... ;-) http://www.axel.com/focus/vnc_e.html CU . \)|(/ . (o o) . /-ooO(_)Ooo-\ .(_| Francis VIVAT | . |CETP-CNRS

Re: Hardware Version of VNC?

2002-02-21 Thread Simon Hobson
Lee Allen wrote: >> Is there any way to create a hardware version of the VNC Server program? >> You connect some little box to the keyboard, mouse, and monitor port of a >> machine, connect it to an ehternet port, assign it an IP address, and use >> the standard viewer control the PC through all s

I can't use vncconnect

2002-02-21 Thread ag_souza
I have a pc with win98 and other pc with linux red hat 6.2, this with vnc 3.3.3. I can see the linux's desktop from windows and see the windows's desktop from linux without any erros. I can use too vncviewer -listen from linux to see windows's desktop running vnc server. But I can't use vnccon

Re: Hardware Version of VNC?

2002-02-21 Thread Lee Allen
> Is there any way to create a hardware version of the VNC Server program? > You connect some little box to the keyboard, mouse, and monitor port of a > machine, connect it to an ehternet port, assign it an IP address, and use > the standard viewer control the PC through all stages of operation, f

Hardware Version of VNC?

2002-02-21 Thread William Harrison
Is there any way to create a hardware version of the VNC Server program? You connect some little box to the keyboard, mouse, and monitor port of a machine, connect it to an ehternet port, assign it an IP address, and use the standard viewer control the PC through all stages of operation, from pre-

RE: Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-21 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> Corne, The rest of the vnc list saw the message too... > > Changing the window manager to olwm gave the same problem. > Can confirm that > Xvnc still is running in background and killing it from another telnet > session kills the grey screen as well. The real issue is why > 3.3.3r2 should > d

RE: Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-21 Thread Henry Meleg
Corne, Changing the window manager to olwm gave the same problem. Can confirm that Xvnc still is running in background and killing it from another telnet session kills the grey screen as well. The real issue is why 3.3.3r2 should do this but the old version does not. Regards, Henry. -Origin

RE: Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-21 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
Is the entire vncserver process stopped or just the windowmanager (dtwm)? I see 2 possible problems: If the windowmanager is stopped but Xvnc (the core of the vncserver) keeps running, then I suspect tooltalk. This is easy to test if you change to an other windowmanager (olwm should be available o

Varient of 'Grey Screen of Death' - Answers Anybody ?

2002-02-21 Thread Henry Meleg
Have been using an older version of VNC where you start up with 'startvnc 1 1' and it works just fine and brings up a full screen session using the dtwm manager. I do not need to also keep the telnet session running that started vnc. Have recently installed the version 3.3.3r2 and am running on So

RE: VNC host crashes when triing to connect

2002-02-21 Thread Richard Clegg
Keith, The Kix script you used to upgrade VNC unattended, have you or are you making it available for download anywhere? Rich -Original Message- From: Keith Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 February 2002 10:03 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: VNC host crashes when triing to

RE: VNC host crashes when triing to connect

2002-02-21 Thread Keith Hall
I have too seen this problem on a new machine, although first showed up with TightVNC, so I uninstalled and used 3.3.3r9 I always used before, but that occasionally did it too (mainly after a reboot before logging on). Memory exception trying to access byte 0 of memory or something... I put it dow

Re: Xvnc -inetd option, what does it realy do?

2002-02-21 Thread Akira Hatakeyama
Greetings On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:21:45AM +0100, "Beerse, Corn" wrote: > My question remains: What does the -inet option to Xvnc do? Is it a nice > combination of -nevershared and -once or is there some port negotiation in > the connection setup? "-netd" option specifies Xvnc to works under "

RE: Xvnc -inetd option, what does it realy do?

2002-02-21 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> VNC -inetd does not setup an http service. It just allows you > to do remote > access identical to your console login. Think of it as a > graphical telnet > session and you will know about what it does and does not do. I know and it works well with the vncviewer on my desktop machine. I'd lik

RE: Xvnc -inetd option, what does it realy do?

2002-02-21 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
My question remains: What does the -inet option to Xvnc do? Is it a nice combination of -nevershared and -once or is there some port negotiation in the connection setup? Thanks CBee > from what i understand getting the inetd option working > enables you to run > the vncserver as a daemon/serv

RE: Home <-->Work Network

2002-02-21 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> Computer at home has a 192.168.0.x internal IP on one card > hooked up to > a hub & an external IP hooked up to a cable modem. > > At work my computer has a 10.0.0.xx IP & is hooked up to a server with > it's own IP. > When I open Vnc Viewer, what do I type in from home or work? > In your fi