Re: Password Restriction

2002-03-22 Thread Chris Johansen
At 3/22/2002 Friday 02:11 PM -0600, Chris Icenhower wrote: >I want to use WinVNC as a remote network utility. I want to remotely >access these computers without the end-user changing the settings or >server passwords. Is there a way to restrict the user from modify this >configuration? Chris, s

Re: Limiting the Remote View

2002-03-22 Thread H. Phil Duby
A variation of the 'joke' response should actually work. How about a separate (third) computer running just VNC server and IE, with VNC configured to allow second connection in view only mode. Support person connects to the machine, then sends url for that machine to customer. Support controls t

Multiple monitor support "snoopy;2" not working

2002-03-22 Thread Ullrich Fischer
I'm using VNC successfully with a Win2000 (VNC server) system with 6 monitors. I can only access the first two which are on a Matrox 450 card so that the two monitors appear as a single window. These monitors are the only ones that display the opening DOS-like stuff that appears when you re

Re: "Hardware version of VNC" revisited - $200 vnc client

2002-03-22 Thread Gabor D. Kiss
I see it now. Thanks "Lee Allen" cc: (bcc: Gabor D. Kiss/Telcordia)

Re: "Hardware version of VNC" revisited - $200 vnc client

2002-03-22 Thread Lee Allen
'vncviewer' most definitely is included (I just evaluated one), and it is listed on their web site: http://www.thenicstore.com/nic/softwarefaq.html Lee Allen Leadtec Systems, Inc. - Original Message - From: "Gabor D. Kiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 2

"Hardware version of VNC" revisited - $200 vnc client

2002-03-22 Thread Gabor D. Kiss
Stuart, This looks really interesting. A hardware vnc client based on linux. Everything you need except a monitor. $200. WOW I took a look and I didn't see VNC among the software that comes with it. They talk about Netscape, and of course you can use that to see the vnc server, but I got the imp

Xft w/ VNC

2002-03-22 Thread 'cduck' Chris Grierson
hello all, i am having trouble getting Xft (a magic font library used for anti- aliasing in Xlib, etc--i believe) to work with Xvnc. i finally managed to get truetype to work, but i had to use xfstt (this is because there is no native truetype support in VNC's X server?). is it even a possibili

Re: File Transfers...again (yet?)

2002-03-22 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
Visual NetCat...abbreviated...VNC? - Original Message - From: "John Roland Elliott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-03-22 15:30 Subject: Re: File Transfers...again (yet?) : Uh-oh. Will somebody put a gui on it and call it Visual NetCat? : : - Original

Re: Screen blanking?...

2002-03-22 Thread James Victor
Yes, you are right, I meant "blanking the server's screen". Okay, bummer, thanks for the info. --- "Alex K. Angelopoulos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I understand you right, you mean blanking out the > server's screen (the > client is the controlling machine; the server is the > machine

Re: File Transfers...again (yet?)

2002-03-22 Thread John Roland Elliott
Uh-oh. Will somebody put a gui on it and call it Visual NetCat? - Original Message - From: "Michael Ossmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 2:29 PM Subject: Re: File Transfers...again (yet?) > Surely netcat has been ported to various platforms:

Password Restriction

2002-03-22 Thread Chris Icenhower
I want to use WinVNC as a remote network utility. I want to remotely access these computers without the end-user changing the settings or server passwords. Is there a way to restrict the user from modify this configuration? [demime 0.97b removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a na

Re: VNC on NT4-Server with Mac client

2002-03-22 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
The port number in use will be 5900 + the display number; if you didn't customize that, it will be "0". In any case, I think we have resolved this. The VNC server is most likely *not* running, since you got no telnet response. Did it immediately reject the connection? If so, then it is definitel

Re: File Transfers...again (yet?)

2002-03-22 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
!! No, Michael, that's TOO easy... - Original Message - From: "Michael Ossmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-03-22 14:29 Subject: Re: File Transfers...again (yet?) : Surely netcat has been ported to various platforms: : : receiver: nc -l -p >file

Re: VNC and Gnome Nautilus

2002-03-22 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:25:46AM -0800, Roger Williams wrote: > Launched both from the icon and from command line. Nothing - no error > (usually a good thing from *nix), nobody home nowhere. I haven't a > clue. Hmmm. Have you tried the --display option? -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engin

RE: VNC on NT4-Server with Mac client

2002-03-22 Thread Rothweiler, Claus
so I got BetterTelnet and had the host name (IP) followed by space and 5800 and later with 5900 (the 5800 was mentioned in the VNC manual and 5900 was mentioned here) but I had no luck. What other portadresses are usualy used (sorry, not my game)? Thanks everybody for your help, best regards Claus

Re: File Transfers...again (yet?)

2002-03-22 Thread Michael Ossmann
Surely netcat has been ported to various platforms: receiver: nc -l -p >file sender: nc receiver http://www.alttech.com/ - To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY

Re: Multiple monitors vnc for mac server?

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Morton
>Does anybody know something about macosx (or 9.x) vnc server which >supports multiple monitors (screens)?? ChromiVNC will do this under MacOS 7.5.5 or later - it will assign a display node for each monitor - but is not quite suitable for MacOS X. I don't know whether OSXvnc will handle it.

RE: Limiting the Remote View

2002-03-22 Thread Stacy D. Coil
You could use multiple monitors. The standard VNC package will only share the one monitor. All of the windows you don't want can be in another. You could install a VNC server on an emulated PC via VMWare. That way only the windows you want to share are in VMWare. --Stacy At 09:46 AM 3/22/2

RE: File Transfers...again (yet?)

2002-03-22 Thread Glenn Lovitz
Charlie, Not want you want to hear... read interleaved response... >Isn't it reasonable that somewhere I haven't looked there is a small, > efficient application to solve this one really simple issue? Probably not as you are wanting to run CLIENT to CLIENT. But a really small efficient appl

Multiple monitors vnc for mac server?

2002-03-22 Thread Andrzej K .
Does anybody know something about macosx (or 9.x) vnc server which supports multiple monitors (screens)?? Andy - To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://

RE: Limiting the Remote View

2002-03-22 Thread Sharma, Shashi
Application sharing, instead of full desktop sharing feature was implemented by Celine Ferage(sp?) as a patch. I think TightVNC will be including this patch in the next release -Original Message- From: Alex K. Angelopoulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:57 AM To

RE: File Transfers...again (yet?)

2002-03-22 Thread Richard Clegg
I admit I'm no expert on P2P applications, but surely the point of having the central server is to provide a link to all active potential participants in a P2P session. Without the central server, how can you identify participants without typing in the IP address (assuming TCP/IP)? I don't think

Re: Limiting the Remote View

2002-03-22 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
That wasn't a serious idea for someone to easily implement... :) AFAIK, there is no way to do this with WinVNC. - Original Message - From: "Marc Bertone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-03-22 12:36 Subject: RE: Limiting the Remote View : I think that woul

RE: File Transfers...again (yet?)... WSFU NFS

2002-03-22 Thread Frank Evan Perdicaro
If you need to serve files from a Windows machine, consider the Microsoft product "Windows Services for Unix 2.0, Server for NFS". Given that you have an IP link to run VSS, you can run NFS too. With some skill, you could set up automounting based on user id and READ ONLY NFS volumes. Would th

Re: File Transfers...again (yet?)

2002-03-22 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
For that matter, almost any file peering app you want could be customized and stripped to make a *simple* transfer tool. This is an interesting point. We aren't talking about a permanent server of large numbers of files; we're talking about temporary access to a few files, either or both directi

Re: xmodmap patch to vnc 3.3.3 (interesting discoveries!)

2002-03-22 Thread Marius Kotsbak
(this might have been sent before, but I send it again as I didn't receive my post) I have attatched my findings, like you requested and more. On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 17:30, Grant McDorman wrote: > According to Marius Kotsbak: > > I tried your trick, but it didn't have any effect. Has 127 in "xmo

Re: ip address

2002-03-22 Thread Bill Reedy
Richard... Greg's main problem is that he is not permitted to alter the server system in any way, which makes any type of port forwarding impossible. Without access to the server, there is no optionethically, that is. He has the tools, just not the authority. ...br - Original Message

Re: File Transfers...again (yet?)

2002-03-22 Thread Charlie Summers
Mr. Elliott; First, let me thank you and all of the others who have responded. Instead of responding on a point-by-point basis, let me comment that all of the responses I've received seem to run to making things _more_ complex, not less. Some suggest tunneling through secure protocols, som

Re: VNC on NT4-Server with Mac client

2002-03-22 Thread Jonathan Morton
>Anyone else able to shed some light on what's in vogue for Mac telnet >clients? My last use of telnet from a Mac was NCSA's telnet client back in >1994. I use BetterTelnet (based on NCSA Telnet), unless I want SSH. For the latter, I use NiftyTelnet with SSH support added. --

Re: VNC on NT4-Server with Mac client

2002-03-22 Thread Kurt P Lloyd
Use BetterTelnet. You can get it free from http://www.versiontracker.com When opening the connection, you'll be prompted for the Host Name. Enter the host name, followed by a space, followed by the port number. You should get the RFB 003.003 in the window that pops up afterwards. -Kurt Lloyd, [

Re: Limiting the Remote View

2002-03-22 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
I don't know about weird but definitely novel and *ugly*...an interesting hack. - Original Message - From: "Adrian Umpleby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-03-22 11:15 Subject: Re: Limiting the Remote View : On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 03:23 PM, Marc

Java Exception Error

2002-03-22 Thread hubrig
Hi! A friend told me about this really nice remote display system and I decided to give it a try. So I downloaded the package and installed the server software on my windows xp at home using the Install Default Registry Settings as told in the documentation. At work I tried to connect to my pc

Re: VNC and Gnome Nautilus

2002-03-22 Thread barnowl
Dumb question but have you checked to see if it launched at the console instead fo teh VNC session? I knowthis should not be, but as Gnome(KDE) are trying to bring windows usabilty to linux you never now. :) Evan On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:39:44 -0800 "Roger Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Limiting the Remote View

2002-03-22 Thread Adrian Umpleby
On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 03:23 PM, Marc Bertone wrote: > I was wondering if there is some way to limit the remote view when > someone > connects via their browser. For example, could I only allow the remote > client to see my IE window, foremost window, CMD console, etc? > Basically, I >

Re: Limiting the Remote View

2002-03-22 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
Not on Microsoft Windows... :( - Original Message - From: "Marc Bertone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-03-22 10:23 Subject: Limiting the Remote View : I was wondering if there is some way to limit the remote view when someone : connects via their browse

Re: VNC on NT4-Server with Mac client

2002-03-22 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
Uhoh I forgot you are most likely using a Mac. Anyone else able to shed some light on what's in vogue for Mac telnet clients? My last use of telnet from a Mac was NCSA's telnet client back in 1994. Claus, it shouldn't matter who you are logged on as. Telnet is much more than ping - techn

Re: no static ip

2002-03-22 Thread Chip Wood
Light Bulb ! Thanks again. Chip - Original Message - From: Tony Wright To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:58 AM Subject: RE: no static ip If you have dns2go working you an just type in: http://www.myaddress.com:5800 IE just follow your domain name

RE: no static ip

2002-03-22 Thread Tony Wright
If you have dns2go working you an just type in: http://www.myaddress.com:5800 IE just follow your domain name with a colon then the port number. Is that what you mean? Works fine for me. I have my internal network set up through a NAT and it just directs port requests to my local

Limiting the Remote View

2002-03-22 Thread Marc Bertone
I was wondering if there is some way to limit the remote view when someone connects via their browser. For example, could I only allow the remote client to see my IE window, foremost window, CMD console, etc? Basically, I would like to selectively share only a part of my desktop while the rest w

RE: ip address

2002-03-22 Thread Richard Clegg
If you go out and buy a study guide for the CompTIA network + qualification, it will give you a good grounding in networking, and it goes from basic too. NAT (Name Address Translation) is the process of converting between the IP addresses used on a private network (such as a home LAN) and Interne

RE: no static ip

2002-03-22 Thread Richard Clegg
You don't need to add anything to the system. I run DNS2Go at home, and all I have to do, is try to connect to the domain using the standard VNC viewer. Works without problems. Rich -Original Message- From: Chip Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 March 2002 14:31 To: [EMAIL PROTEC

no static ip

2002-03-22 Thread Chip Wood
Thanks TW. Okay, I've got DNS to go running. * Like the price * 2nd problem. DNS2GO picks up my server's IP and I need to add the :5800 to the ip or url so that the server will direct to my station on the network where I have the vnc application running. Possible ? I already have the port open a

AW: VNC on NT4-Server with Mac client

2002-03-22 Thread Rothweiler, Claus
Dear Alex, sorry for the question (my world is the mac side), but "telnet to port 5900" gives me some headache... Is there a tool for telnet (is it similar to "ping"?) and does it matter if I am logged in as admin or as user? Thanks for your help and best regards Claus It sounds like the VNC ser

Re: VNC and Gnome Nautilus

2002-03-22 Thread Roger Williams
Launched both from the icon and from command line. Nothing - no error (usually a good thing from *nix), nobody home nowhere. I haven't a clue. Roger On 21 Mar 2002 at 16:57, Michael Ossmann wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 03:39:44PM -0800, Roger Williams wrote: > > Does anyone have any idea w

VNC bugtraq advisory draft 2

2002-03-22 Thread Andrew van der Stock
http://www.evilsecurity.com/vnc/vnc-zlib-advisory-02.htm If you have any comments, updates, etc, please mail me as soon as possible - I'll be posting this to bugtraq at first thing Tuesday UTC (10 am my time). Thanks, Andrew - T

Re: VNC on NT4-Server with Mac client

2002-03-22 Thread Alex K. Angelopoulos
It sounds like the VNC service may have crashed or hung. Assuming you are running the server on the default port, you can try a telnet to port 5900 just to see if it echoes back the RFB protocol number. If it times out, you can't access the server; if it refuses connection, the service is no long

VNC on NT4-Server with Mac client

2002-03-22 Thread Rothweiler, Claus
Dear VNC list, as a new vnc-user I have the following problem: I want to use a NT4-Server without monitor and keyboard as Mac Fileserver. In fact the only task would be to shutdown the machine remotely. VNC installation on Mac was no problem. On the server I first got the message "The SCM could n

"Hardware version of VNC" revisited

2002-03-22 Thread Lee Allen
When this topic came up a month ago, it led to some discussion about the NIC, the New Internet Computer, from the New Internet Computer Company. This was a bit off-topic because the original post was about a VNC server and the NIC is a client. The NIC is a $199 box that is a prepacked, ready-to-g

RE: ip address

2002-03-22 Thread xBANEx
i really have no network experiance except internet connectior sharing and im taking a class on network plus at my school, "katharine gibbs." im not really majoring in networking.. more of computer hardware and tech support... but... what was the nat thing you were talking about? greg __

Re: Newbie - VNC on Windows XP Pro

2002-03-22 Thread Roger Williams
Allan, I just started it on XP Home yesterday. Runs like a champ. I haven't tried multiple users yet. Roger On 21 Mar 2002 at 23:27, AllanL wrote: > I did a search on the archives and got no hits on xp(I tried), does > the software work on XP and how does it deal or not with the concept > of u

RE: ip address

2002-03-22 Thread Richard Clegg
What is it exactly that you are trying to do with VNC that you want to do "s badly"? Is it connect from the internet back to your PC? If you're sharing an IP address with the server, then there is nothing you can do that I can think of. If you were using NAT then it would be a different mat

RE: Varying displays?

2002-03-22 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > say I have 2 users, fryguy and bonzo, and each one has export > display=:x > in there .xsession file. How can I make it so that the > .xsession file > knows which display the right server is running on? Remove the display setting from the file. It is a runtime

RE: VNC Authentication via Form/Query String

2002-03-22 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > I was looking for a way to use the browser based viewer to > pass the password > into the applet using a form or the query string. For > example, I would like > to connect to http://1.2.3.4:5800?pass=thispass or something similar. Have you tried the url standard:

RE: no static ip

2002-03-22 Thread Tony Wright
or if you want a totaly free one then www.dns2go.com tony -Original Message- From: Jonathan Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 March 2002 04:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: no static ip >My dsl connection changes ip# every 12 hours from the ISP (Bellsouth Fast >Access). I

Guess what I got? :-)

2002-03-22 Thread Andrew van der Stock
Visual Studio .NET C++ Standard Edition in a retail box. :-) This means I can finally distribute binaries (and the permissible redistributables) for the stuff I've been playing with. I'm currently learning about managed C++ applications. Excellent stuff. It should be possible to port VNC View