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2002-04-03 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 07:22:45AM -0700, Michael F. March wrote: > The issue > I think is on most people's mind (or mine at least) is that > we all look to AT&T as the 'pure' source of VNC and from time > to time we would like AT&T to take the "best of the best" > features of all the features tha

Re: offtopic: New Member

2002-04-02 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:24:00PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello guys, I'd just subscribed this list. I hope I can help to > improve VNC. I hadnt get its source yet, but as soon as possible I'll > get it and make me familiar with it... I suggest starting with the TightVNC source rather

Re: Disable Web Server

2002-03-28 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 12:36:15PM -0500, Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote: > > Note that other than giving a larger number of people *theoretical* access > to your system, this doesn't do much. They still need to connect over the > standard VNC port as soon as they are served the applet. It also pre

Re: Windows VNC

2002-03-27 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:18:19PM -0600, Roger Mihalko wrote: > > 1. Could the VNC Server Service be modified to run similar to Citrix? In theory, yes. The following post ("Shared WTS Sessions Using VNC" by Bill Anglea) is the state of the art: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/archives/20

Re: Vnc connection loop-back only

2002-03-27 Thread Michael Ossmann
Make sure that you are doing the SSH port forward like this: 5900:127.0.0.1:5900 and not like this: 5900:hostname:5900 -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/ ---

Re: vnc-list-digest V1 #1501

2002-03-27 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 11:13:16AM -0500, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman wrote: > > The Xvnc process has the following "-httpd /acc/joel/.vnc" Inside > ~joel/.vnc, I see "moz2_0.zip." Okay, the HTTP server is starting up, but it is not using a directory with the appropriate contents for some reason. How

Re: Vnc on HPUX10.20

2002-03-27 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:23:56PM +0900, ASANO,SEIJI (A-Japan,ex1) wrote: > > I like to share an unix same session desktop on a windows client. > For example, login as a root user on an unix and open a terminal window. > I like to see this same environment on a windows client. Xvnc is not able

Re: getting JAVA server to work under Linux

2002-03-26 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 09:11:19AM -0500, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman wrote: > I have VNC running beauifully under a RH 7.2 system, but the JAVA part > doesn't work. I can telnet to the http port, so I know the server is > listening, but that's as far as I get. What happens when you try to connect with

Re: VNC Optimization?

2002-03-25 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:58:23AM -0600, Kyle Yamnitz wrote: > > 3. I didn't try changing the encoding or Misc options on the > viewer. Would any of those make a difference? Always have copyrect encoding enabled. TightVNC provides a number of additional optimizations, one of the best of wh

Re: Xft w/ VNC

2002-03-25 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:50:02PM -0800, 'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote: > > is it even a possibility to get Xft support? that is, 1) has anyone > managed to do this? Not that I've heard of. > and/or 2) does anyone with lower level VNC knowledge know if this is > even possible? Probably, but y

Re: TightVNC 1.2.3 released

2002-03-25 Thread Michael Ossmann
There was a good thread on this subject ("shutdown gotcha with Win32 host") about 3 weeks ago. Andrew van der Stock had a good description of what the problem is and some suggestions for how it might be fixed. Jake Hoover found this handy workaround: http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.

Re: using vnc on redhat 6.1

2002-03-25 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:17:30AM -0600, Tianjie Gao wrote: > > AUDIT: Fri Mar 22 11:08:52 2002: 21864 Xvnc: client 1 rejected from local > host > Xlib: connection to ":1.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > xrdb: Can't open display ':1' This error is th

Re: Setting Raw Pixel Drawing Option

2002-03-25 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 09:14:36PM -0600, Chip Wood wrote: > When using the java viewer, VNC defaults to "reliable" and "fast" > works fine for me. Is there a way to switch the default to "fast" to > prevent having to change every time I log on ? Set the "Raw pixel drawing" applet parameter to "F

Re: VNC and Gnome Nautilus

2002-03-25 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 11:03:12AM -0800, Roger Williams wrote: > Mike, I couldn't make this do anything for me, but I did find that > though Nautilus didn't show in the VNC window (display :1) it did show > up on the console (ie. display :0). Now I need to see how to get it to > show up on the VN

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: 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: VNC and Gnome Nautilus

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 03:39:44PM -0800, Roger Williams wrote: > Does anyone have any idea why Mandrake 8.x Nautilus won't launch in a > VNC client window?Everything else seems to be fine. Does it give you any error messages? If you are launching it from an icon, try it from the command line to

Re: New to VNC.

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Ossmann
A VNC server that ignores all user input would be an appropriate solution, though. You can set the "Disable Remote Keyboard & Pointer" option in WinVNC. -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/ ---

Re: VNC Authentication via Form/Query String

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:04:00AM -0800, Marc Bertone wrote: > 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. > > O

Re: Ugly background

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:26:49PM -0500, Lee Allen wrote: > I am using vncviewer (Windows98, Linux) with Xvnc (Linux) to run an > application without a window manager. The background that is used, that > ugly black & white weave ... is there any way to change that? Perhaps to a > solid color?

Re: Restricting access

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:04:00AM +1100, Andrew van der Stock wrote: > TS access in administrative mode is actually governed by ACLs which > you can adjust in the TS configuration snap-in, and via group policy. Ah. Thanks for the good info. -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor

Re: VNC through port 80? - having problems

2002-03-21 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 04:47:04PM -0700, Scott The Axe O'Bryan wrote: > Should be no reason you couldn't proxy the 5900 port also. I believe > that that it precisely what vnc proxy does. In general, that's true, but I think he was referring to a web proxy which would most likely choke on anythi

Re: The Next Generation display numbers

2002-03-20 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:59:07PM -0500, Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote: > Going one step further, it might be nice if the next > generation could also respond to HTTP queries on the same port by > attempting to serve an applet - assuming that would not introduce > excessive complexity or security i

Re: VNC through port 80? - having problems

2002-03-20 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 02:35:22PM -0600, Kyle Yamnitz wrote: > > This *might* work on port 80 too (with -5820), but I haven't tried it > yet. I'm thinking it won't b/c wouldn't it have to go through the proxy > on port 80? I might try this tomorrow. You're probably right. If it goes throug

Re: Restricting access

2002-03-20 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:24:30PM +1100, Andrew van der Stock wrote: > > If this doesn't secure your site adequately, I would suggest rdesktop on > the Unix boxes to connect to the Terminal Services Administration mode > (installed by default in win2k and .NET server). Doesn't Administration mo

Re: Shared WTS Sessions Using VNC

2002-03-20 Thread Michael Ossmann
Wow! Thanks for the great instructions. Now all we need is a hack to open up the WTS session for a user after VNC authentication. :-) -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/

Re: The Next Generation display numbers

2002-03-20 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 10:38:40AM -0500, Grant McDorman wrote: > > The problem is that VNC, on *nix systems, will always use a display > number for access by applications. If one drops the display number for > the VNC client connections, then we'll have *two* unrelated IDs for > the VNC server -

Re: The Next Generation display numbers

2002-03-19 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:51:22PM -0500, Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote: > Sure; my point is the method used for tying ports and displays > together. It makes use of custom lower-numbered ports significantly > more difficult. What would be really nice would be a system by which display numbers don'

Re: Problems with VNC on Mandrake

2002-03-19 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:59:22AM -0600, Daugherty, William wrote: > > What do you mean by I need to know which virtual X server I am > invoking VNC. Every X server has a display number associated with it. Display numbers look like: hostname:0 hostname:0.0 hostname:10.0 unix:1 :2 (this is the

Re: [VCN] ivisit

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:32:35AM -0400, David Murdoch wrote: > > When I employ vnc-3.3.3r2 to connect from a client Linux box to > vnc-3.3.3r9 on a Windows 98 laptop with a USB webcam attached and > ivisit running, the ivisit webcam images on the client window do not > refresh unless one of the

Re: TridiaVNC Pro and GPL: Re: Tridia VNC

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:37:28AM -0700, Michael Ossmann wrote: > > I've also noticed something else that concerns me with TridiaVNC (not > TVP). It doesn't contain the copyright notices of the various > authors, notably AT&T, Widget Workshop, Inc., and Jef

Re: java.security.AccessControlException

2002-03-18 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:38:04AM +0530, saravanan pillai wrote: > > java.security.AccessControlException : access > denied(java.net.SocketPermission XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX*:5900 connect, resolve) Are you running the applet within a web browser? If so, is it being served from a web server on the sam

Re: vnc performance

2002-03-15 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 07:34:33AM -0800, Morrison Davis wrote: > > What I'm looking for is tuning information and what things are the > biggest factors in graphics refresh. How much does the server speed > affect the performance vs. the client speed. How does the clients > graphic card

Re: Problems with WinXP and Terminal Services

2002-03-15 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:06:40PM +0100, "Beerse, Corni" wrote: > > - rsh or rlogin from unix to the terminal server with your terminal > server account. There at the prompt you can type a command like `x11 > -display ` or `X11 -display <>` or was it an other command with > x11 or X11 as an optio

RE: VNC zlib Advisory draft 1

2002-03-14 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002, Jonathan Morton wrote: > > > A rogue server could ask for a password, send a challenge, and then > ignore the response and just let you in, and then set up the exploit > on the viewer. That is an excellent point. Another way a client would be particularly vulnerable is

Re: tcp wrapper source code & binary

2002-03-13 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 06:11:25PM -0500, Raymond Papa wrote: > does anyone have tcp wrapper source code & binary? The home of tcp_wrappers is here: ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/index.html Many Linux distributions have a tcp_wrappers or tcpd package. You can also use xinetd to do som

Re: VNC through Netgear RT314

2002-03-13 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:28:43AM -0500, Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote: > > And - I could be wrong, I can't place the reference right now - but I don't > believe VNC uses UDP at all. You're right. -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.altte

Re: Problems with WinXP and Terminal Services

2002-03-13 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 10:06:56AM +0100, "Beerse, Corni" wrote: > > If it's for displaying on unix, the terminalserver has an X11 option > to get a X11 display. What option is that? -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/ --

Re: grey desktop with a cursor

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:08:08PM -0500, Danilo Lizcano wrote: > > I have tried to use the xstartup file with the twm, mwm and dtwm commands > > #!/bin/sh > PATH=$PATH:/usr/dt/bin > if [ -f /usr/dt/bin/Xsession ] > then > export XSTATION=1 DTXSERVERLOCATION=local > Xsession & > else >

Re: Saved password

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:27:16AM -0800, VNC User wrote: > I don't think that'll do it for me because I don't know C. Does > anyone have an example for Visual Basic? Not that I know of. You'll need to find a DES implementation that you can use (and modify a little), and you'll probably end u

Re: Problems with the temp files.

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:15:49PM -0500, Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote: > Brings up another question in my mind. When a VNC session is running > on a Windows client or server, are the tiles actually cached to a file > anywhere at some point? I don't think so. At least I'm pretty certain that Xvnc

Re: zlib vulnerability could affect VNC

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:04:49PM +, Tim Waugh wrote: > > Right. But of course, SSH can also use zlib so make sure you upgrade > that. :-) Heh. Good point, although SSH fortunately encrypts after compression, so the risk isn't huge. But I suppose there is still a risk from authenticated

Re: vnc via ssh port forwarding

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:22:42PM +0100, Robert Parusel wrote: > bash-2.05# channel 3: open failed: administratively prohibited: open failed > on the prompt of p2001 It sounds like sshd on p2001 is configured to not allow port forwarding. -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Al

Re: Problems with the temp files.

2002-03-12 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 10:55:41AM -0500, Andrew Lucas wrote: > > Warning: server.ip.myvnc.com:1 is taken because of /tmp/.X11-unix/X1 > Remove this file if there is no X server server.ip.myvnc.com:1 > > Is there a way I can delete it before it shuts down? This is probably happening because Xvn

Re: VNC Security (yes... again)

2002-03-11 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:49:42AM +0100, Franck Chevalier wrote: > > Then I created the /HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORL/WINVNC/AuthHosts key > registry with the following value : +999.999.999.999 (where 999.999.999.999 > is my IP) and I kept the > /HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ORL/WINVNC/DEFAU

Re: winvncdrv & NT4

2002-03-11 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:41:17PM +0700, Constantin Kaplinsky wrote: > > Well, I'm sure TightVNC will use driver hooking at some point, and I'm > very interested in Rudi's work. But first I'll have to make sure the > driver is of near-production quality, and I'd like to make its use > optional.

Re: Can VNC help me for my project?

2002-03-09 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:14:11PM -0500, Yohan Baillot wrote: > > Could you tell me if VNC is able to do what I say. In concept I think > I need to embbed a VNC listener into my application to get the pixels > from your VNC server. This listener will just pass to my rendering > application the p

Re: TridiaVNC Pro and GPL: Re: Tridia VNC

2002-03-08 Thread Michael Ossmann
Brian, Thanks for posting. It's nice that you guys are willing to discuss this stuff publicly. :-) On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:03:36AM -0500, W. Brian Blevins wrote: > > I am most definitely not a lawyer. Understood. Neither am I. > > Personally, I suspect there is a GPL violation going on

new OpenSSH vulnerability

2002-03-07 Thread Michael Ossmann
I know a lot of people are using OpenSSH for secure VNC tunneling, so I thought this would be worth posting here: http://www.pine.nl/advisories/pine-cert-20020301.txt It affects all versions from 2.0 through 3.0.2. Upgrade to 3.1 ASAP: http://www.openssh.org/ -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/

Re: -inetd option with RH7.2

2002-03-07 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:02:32AM +1100, Brian Turner wrote: > > So...my specific question is: how do I get an xdm (pref. kdm) running > on RH 7.2, with runlevel 3 without launching an X desktop? Oops. I was wrong about that in my last message since prefdm launches the display manager which in

Re: Tridia VNC

2002-03-07 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:01:01PM +0530, Jasmeet S. Virdi wrote: > Just saw TridiaVNC Pro. i have a question. Since TridiaVNC Pro is > based upon VNC, which is open source under GNU license, won't it > be mandatory for TridiaVNC people to make it open course too ?? > And do they h

Re: WinVNC & -nevershared

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:21:40PM -0700, Rob Kenyon wrote: > > I can honestly state that I actually read the docs before posting. > Notice that "ConnectPriority" states: Sorry to be so hard on you; I just wanted to be certain. Thanks for the great clarification. That's a pretty big issue, a

Re: -inetd option with RH7.2

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 06:53:31PM +1100, Brian Turner wrote: > > `ps -A | grep dm` doesn't show anything (well, sendmail :) ). > > I tried to follow this through: inittab starts a script called 'prefdm' > which appears to identify the correct dm and start it with the -nodaemon > switch. I unde

Re: Thin client security presentation

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 10:00:14AM -0500, Janyne Kizer wrote: > What are you thoughts on the security of running from Windows PC -> > Linux via SSH? > > For example, from Windows: > > ssh2 -L 5901:my.vnc.server:5900 my.vnc.server -l userid > > Then fire up VNC and connect to localhost:1 That

Re: VNC 3.3 / Solaris 8 / Sun Rays

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:10:28AM +1030, Martin de Koning wrote: > > The client session runs, opens a window, displays a grey screen then > dies. Is it solid grey or herringbone patterned? How long does it stay open? > 01/03/02 14:50:09 Desktop name 'X' (yi:164) > 01/03/02 14:50:09 Protocol v

Re: Cannot Install 3.3.3r2 on a Sparc Solaris 2.6 machine

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:21:48AM -, Henry Meleg wrote: > # > # PATH=$PATH:/usr/ccs/bin/ > # > # make World > make Makefiles

Re: Restricting IP

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:18:39PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IN the VNC addons, there is a note on restricting access via IP > using TCP wrappers. However there is a disclaimer at the top > saying VNC server has similar functionality built in, but no details on > how to use it. Anyone

Re: header for compression codec

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 08:51:31PM +, Jens Wagner wrote: > > The idea is to just move a .so file like codec_zlib.so into ~/.rfb, > and have all programs (like Xvnc, WinVNC, vncviewer,...) using that > dynamic library for (de)compression. On windows, this would be a .dll > file of course, but

Re: WinVNC & -nevershared

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 06:59:11PM -0700, Rob Kenyon wrote: > As my message stated, ConnectPriorty works fine, but it doesn't prevent > a second user from requesting a shared session, connecting and seeing > the first user's screen. Yes, but did you actually try setting it to 2, not 1? -- Mik

Thin client security presentation

2002-03-04 Thread Michael Ossmann
I will be speaking at Rubi Con (http://www.rubi-con.org/) in April about thin client and remote desktop security. I'll discuss Citrix, Tarantella, VNC, the X window system, Windows Terminal Services, and possibly some other things. Firstly, I'd like to invite everyone. If you are attending Rubi

Re: WinVNC & -nevershared

2002-03-04 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:40:38PM -0700, Rob Kenyon wrote: > > It appears that WinVNC doesn't understand/honor the -nevershared > parameter that Xvnc supports. I'm not looking for high security, I'm > just looking to make sure that the current user is private. I did get > ConnectPriority worki

Re: Tunneling through a firewall to a vncserver.

2002-03-04 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:04:59AM -0500, Chris Gokey wrote: > > Xvnc can now make reverse connections to a listening viewer > (normally connections are made the other way round - the viewer > connects to the server). This is done with a helper program called > vncconnect. Simp

Re: Tunneling through a firewall to a vncserver.

2002-02-28 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 05:15:12PM -0500, Chris Gokey wrote: > > I'd be interested in any feedback this group can offer, regarding best > encryption to use, best way to compress data, security concerns, etc. Zlib compression is great, although it would be unnecessary if you use TightVNC with tig

Re: FW: core dump on Digital unix 4.0F

2002-02-28 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:41:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So how comes Xvnc works for the other servers (same OS same subnet) ? Good question. Is it installed exactly the same way? > Also, if the default-display is :0 then do you know a way to use Xvnc > with inetd and open higher

Re: VNC server does not launch

2002-02-28 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:22:30AM -0800, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > Yes, xstartup triggers script, but exactly the same occurs when I replace > xstartup with the default one. I think the problem is in the strings like > > AUDIT: Thu Feb 28 20:19:24 2002: 76400 Xvnc: client 1 rejected from lo

Re: Fw: Problem with Ctrl-Alt-Del

2002-02-28 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:55:42PM +0200, Serik Support wrote: > > Using the browser when connecting to a server (NT) from a remote > location issuing CTRL-ALT-DEL, disconnects the connection. On > reconnect you can use password etc ok. Run what ever without a > problem, When issuing the CTRL-ALT-

Re: core dump on Digital unix 4.0F

2002-02-28 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:04:18PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I call Xvnc with all the right options (besides -inetd) I get the > following error: > > "cannot establish any listening sockets - make sure an X server isn't > already running." > > (end quote) > This message is quite

Re: Stajano's ssh & Man-in-Middle attacks

2002-02-28 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:14:21PM -0500, fred (Please remove 1st F from my email) wrote: > > This sometimes presents a problem because > the host I connect to is not always up. All of a > sudden I have to connect to different host at > the far end, one for which I don't have the > public key f

Re: Stajano's ssh & Man-in-Middle attacks

2002-02-28 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:22:56PM -0500, fred (Please remove 1st F from my email) wrote: > But what about > the key strokes sent by the viewer to the server? > My understanding is that they are not encrypted, > since VNC only encrypts the password for the > viewer's connection to the server. Co

Re: VNC server does not launch

2002-02-28 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:58:34PM -0800, Alexey Koptsevich wrote: > > 27/02/02 06:51:28 Xvnc version 3.3.3r2 > 27/02/02 06:51:28 Copyright (C) AT&T Laboratories Cambridge. > 27/02/02 06:51:28 All Rights Reserved. > 27/02/02 06:51:28 See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc for information on VNC >

Re: Question about evolution of WinVNC ?

2002-02-26 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:37:48AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone know if a new version of WinVNC by AT&T is announced in > few months and if this software will be update one day or if this > version is the last official version product by AT&T or if it will > stopped by AT&T ?

Re: Connecting from work to home

2002-02-25 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:54:28PM +, Scott C. Best wrote: > Nick: using port 443 as Mike suggested should work. You > can forward your home-LAN LinkSys's external port 443 to port 5900 > of the target VNC server, or forward it to that servers's port 443 > (if that server is setup to lis

Re: Connecting from work to home

2002-02-25 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:05:23PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, it works when the display number is set to 0, both through the Java > client and the regular client. Hmmm. How about for an arbitrary low (<5) display number? -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alt

Re: can vnc web-enable client-server applications?

2002-02-25 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:59:15PM +0530, Vilva Natarajan wrote: > > Lets say the Microsoft Outlook client application is only available on > the server. VNC is installed on the server too. Can users use the VNC > client to access the server, click on the outlook application, use > their own auth

Re: Connecting from work to home

2002-02-25 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 12:37:35PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm confused why it won't work internally at work. Any ideas on that? > > I've got the display number set to 59716 and still get the RFB message > when trying via a browser, and get "Failed to connect to server" error > when

Re: Connecting from work to home

2002-02-22 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:56:52AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On a side note, I am testing this on two PCs here at work. With the > display number set to 59716 on one of them, I get the same RFB message > when trying to access it from a browser. While looking at the PC with > the 59716

Re: Security Holes

2002-02-22 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 10:38:34AM +0100, Patrick Corneli_en wrote: > > That's not the problem, the Datatransfer is going through my local hub > (in my room) and the rest of the house is completely switched, so I > see no problem here. > I will use it only from here, not over the internet. That's

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: 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: Using depth 1

2002-02-19 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:26:08AM -0600, Alberto Alonso wrote: > I'm having problems using the "-depth 1" option. I don't think -depth 1 has ever worked, although some of the code is there. > I'm trying to the an old LCD display that is monochrome > to connect to a specific application that I

Re: Home <-->Work Network

2002-02-19 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:53:38AM -0500, Francesco Giordano wrote: > Sorry, but you probably already heard this. I have a network at home and > another at work. I want to be able to access one from the other via VNC. > What do I type in for the server, if they both have internal and > external IP

Re: Hook VNC server to an existing X process

2002-02-19 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 09:41:26AM +0100, "Beerse, Corni" wrote: > > How about the next configuration, who fills out the details? > - Exchange the default Xserver with Xvnc so Xvnc runs on localhost:0.0. This > is quite easy: locate from where X11 is started and just replace the X > command with X

Re: Where is the file, vncviewer.class located in Win2k?

2002-02-18 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 11:49:55PM +0800, Cheung Leo wrote: > > I have installed VNC in my win2k webserver and I want to customize the HTML > web page embedding the viewer applet. But, vncviewer.class and > vncviewer.jar cannot be found in my computer (using search file function in > Win2k). H

Re: Hook VNC server to an existing X process

2002-02-18 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:17:39PM -0800, Yacc wrote: > is there a way to hook a Xvnc server to an existing X application. What I > mean is: if an X application "xapp_A" is running, I would like to start a > Xvnc server. Have Xvnc talk to the application and then connect to it with a > vncviewer t

Re: HandHeld PC and VNC connects to Win2000 Server

2002-02-18 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 02:43:42PM -0800, Will Olson wrote: > > If anyone is interested and I email my research to them It would be great if you could post a URL to the list. -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/

Re: LDAP compability

2002-02-15 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 05:43:07PM +, Illtud Daniel wrote: > > Implementing PAM would give us (instantly) LDAP, Kerberos, NIS[+], > RADIUS, TACACS+, Netware, s/key etc... or at least it would on > sane platforms. Is there a PAM implementation on win32? I completely agree that this would be

Re: Connecting from work to home

2002-02-14 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:48:37PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thank you Michael. I have setup my router to forward port 5800 to port > 5900 on the machine I'm trying to connect to. Via Internet Explorer I > type "http://:5800". I get my VNC login screen, but when I > type in the pass

Re: about Rudi De Vos's video hook driver

2002-02-14 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:46:13AM -0800, noil sg wrote: > Has the source code for these drivers published yet? http://services.simac.be/vnc/winvncdrv/sources/ -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.com/

Re: LDAP compability

2002-02-14 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:40:17PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, Can we use LDAP database for VNC user authentication ? No, at least not without some fairly extensive source code changes. Tarantella is the only similar product I'm aware of which directly supports LDAP authentication. --

Re: Connecting from work to home

2002-02-14 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:01:21AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've got VNC 3.3.3r9 running on a Win2k Pro machine at home, behind a > Linksys router. What I want to do is connect to my home computer from the > office, who has their own firewalls in place. Have the network > administ

Re: VNC through SSH problem

2002-02-14 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 02:07:39PM -0500, Ron Miller wrote: > > 4. Putty 0.52 on Windows98, set to forward port local port 5901 to > linux:5901 You should forward port 5901 to localhost:5901. -- Mike Ossmann, Tarantella/UNIX Engineer/Instructor Alternative Technology, Inc. http://www.alttech.

Re: How can I require ssh?

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 07:12:20PM -0600, dssyenon wrote: > > If Bob and Charlie are separate machines and Charlie ran with -localhost, > I'm guessing I'd first need to ssh into Bob then ssh into Charlie with a > literal forward to localhost. This is assuming Charlie isn't directly > reachable f

Re: VNC startup problems

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 03:43:31PM -0800, Mike Pritchard wrote: > I discovered that the administrator hadn't actually turned the ports > on as he'd promised. Once he did that I've been able connect from > home to work. Ah. :-) > But I'm not sure if I'll be able to make it work the other way -

Re: ConnectPriority "HELP!"

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:36:12PM -0500, Stephenson, Martin wrote: > > I wish to set ConnectPriority to "=1". I have read the archived mail on the > subject, but I'm still not sure how to go about doing what needs to be done. > Currently, no ConnectPriority entry exists in my registry. Start -

Re: connect VNC from Intranet

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 12:48:03AM +0800, Cheung Leo wrote: > > java.net.NoRouteToHostExpection: Operation timed out Can you telnet to the VNC server on port 5900? You need access to both 5800 and 5900 in order to get the Java client to work. > What do I have to do so that I connect my Win2k S

Re: VNC startup problems

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:52:41PM -0800, Mike Pritchard wrote: > > When I try to connect to the server, I seem to get a connection, but the > viewer screen flashes up a window which then instantly disappears. It could be an MTU issue. Try searching for MTU in the list archives. -- Mike Ossma

Re: How can I require ssh?

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:45:33PM +0200, Ehud Karni wrote: > > 3. windows ssh client set to forward windowsbox:5902 to linuxbox:5901. > > Number 3 above is wrong because it say linuxbox:5901 and not > localhost:5901 (linuxbox:5901 it will use the eth0 net - whichever its > IP is, and not the l0 n

Re: Having a problem with VNC using Mesa

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 10:30:16AM -0500, Wilcox, Steve wrote: > > If I do an xpdyinfo from the screen where the displays render > successfully, I see GLX listed as an extension. However if I do the > same command from an xterm inside my VNC viewer, GLX is not listed. > > What do I have to do t

Re: share a single window

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Ossmann
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:26:35PM -0800, noil sg wrote: > I followed > http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/contrib/one-window.txt > to share a single window in VNC. But it does not seem > to work. Has anyone got this thing to work? I haven't used it myself, but Rudi De Vos has done more recent w

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