Re: File Transfer with WinVNC?

2002-05-20 Thread Alex Morris
Low-overhead remote control, without all the extra wasteful code present in apps like PC Anywhere, SMS et al. In message <001501c1$93c8fa90$403442cf@home5pek3wiuzp>, insitus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >If WinVNC does not do file transfer, I am wondering what is good about >WinVNC. > >Regar

RE: Wallpaper confusion with TightVNC / Windows 2000

2002-05-16 Thread Alex Morris
t. It only happens with VNC. If I am sat at the PC, using it directly, then this behaviour does not occur. -- Alex Morris On Thu, 16 May 2002 06:40:48 -0500, "Christina Zeleny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In the VNC Getting Started guide, there are many registry hacks. This >

Wallpaper confusion with TightVNC / Windows 2000

2002-05-16 Thread Alex Morris
I've tried searching the list archives and the FAQs, but haven't found the answer. I'd be grateful if someone points me in the right direction if the answer is publicly available. I regularly use TightVNC to control a PC running Windows 2000 Professional. This PC has been set to show a specific w

Re: Can't See Menus

2001-03-29 Thread Don Morris
I'm apparently not communicating very well. The remote computer is running the Server, of the ChromiVNC variety. They are using the vncPatches that came with ChromiVNC. I am using the VNC Viewer that came in the AT&T distribution, along with its vncPatches -- although from your explanation the

Re: Can't See Menus

2001-03-28 Thread Don Morris
On 3/28/01 4:33 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sounds like you have not installed the vncPatches that comes with ChromiVNC. >This should go in your Extensions folder, and then restart. I'll check with the remote user to see if he did in fact install vncPatches and restart. Should I be using Chro

Can't See Menus

2001-03-28 Thread Don Morris
I'm using VNC Viewer PPC (Mac) version 3.3.3b2 on my 6500, connecting to a PB running ChromiVNC Server FAT 3.4.0a3. Everything seems to work fine, except that when I click in the menu bar of the remote Mac I don't see the menu bar drop (it does drop, though). Any ideas?

Re: Command Key Equivalents

2001-03-17 Thread Don Morris
On 3/17/01 5:27 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote: >VNC Controls is not used by ChromiVNC - it has it's own internal settings >dialogue. The 'Command Key Equivalents' is thus meaningless. Understood. I still would like to know how this setting works in VNC Controls. >Try disabling CoRRE in the >Chro

Re: Command Key Equivalents

2001-03-17 Thread Don Morris
On 3/17/01 1:31 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote: >I'm happy to say that there's a solution for you - look at the URL in my >signature, and download a newer version of the Macintosh server from there. Thanks, Jonathan, but I just tried it and there are some serious window redraw issues with ChromiVNC.

Command Key Equivalents

2001-03-17 Thread Don Morris
Just installed VNC on both my Mac and my PC. I have the two networked. I can control the Mac from the PC and vice versa. However, when connecting to the Mac from the PC the Mac doesn't respond to command key equivalents, i.e., command-w to close a window, command-q to quit, etc. I need some he

AIX binary links

2001-03-16 Thread morris
) to install in a AIX 4.3.3 box. Also, I would like to run in inetd. Is there anyone who can point out the tricks to make it done? Thanks for any advice or pointers in advance. -- Morris Law Assistant Computer OfficerAddress : 224 Waterloo Road, KLN, Hong Kong Science Faculty

RE: file xfer

2001-03-15 Thread Morris, Steve
Does anyone know where to find mime64 and pkzip libraries? I think the MIME suggestion is brilliant. This is just the kind of application that MIME designed for, i.e. packaging up arbitrary data for the purpose of passing it between different platforms in a portable/transportable TEXT form. I woul

Proposed solution to file transfer problem.

2001-03-14 Thread Morris, Steve
I want to rewind a little. In the his post [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] made a proposal that could the the good enough solution many of us could live with. He made several suggestions but the one I liked best requires a utility on the server side and a utility on the client side. One utility reads

RE: File Transfer

2001-03-14 Thread Morris, Steve
A simple, one file at a time, binary file transfer would be a big leap forward. There are times when I want a whole directory but mostly I just want to edit locally that single word file or C file and then send it back. The main reason I want to do that is because the cursor lag behind mouse posit

RE: FTP Server

2001-03-14 Thread Morris, Steve
(soapbox on) Why is discussion so adversarial. One class of users has a problem and keeps posting requests. Another class of users desn't have that problem and basically declares the first group to be stupid because they can't figure it out. Let me state my suspicion: I think we have a UNIX gu

RE: FTP Server

2001-03-13 Thread Morris, Steve
> 1. From the macroeconomic point of view, there is little > demand for such a > package and we're only hearing the vocal few; > > 2. The few "end users (especially non UNIX users)" who are > in the know how > to set up such an environemnt are not sharing their > knowledge effectively

RE: FTP Server

2001-03-13 Thread Morris, Steve
Gustafsson, Bjorn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] rather annoyingly writes: > Sure, someone packaging VNC with > FTP/HTTP/SMTP/POP3/IRC/NNTP/Napster/Real/Telnet servers > might be a good idea Now you're being unfair. There is a real need being discussed here. Making fun of people with that need does not

RE: FTP Server

2001-03-13 Thread Morris, Steve
I guess we all know the issues here. What we don't have is a good answer. The VNC team has decided to bound the development process by keeping to the core functionality, correctly reasoning that things like file transfer, secure connection and local printing of remote files are all solved elsewher

RE: what is the command to show IP address connected to my comput er

2001-02-22 Thread Morris, Steve
ipconfig works everywhere > -Original Message- > From: Riley, Jimmy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:04 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: what is the command to show IP address connected to my > comput er > > > Does anyone no the comma

Authentication failure is an error in server or client?

2001-02-19 Thread Morris, Steve
I have basically wiped my system and am reinstalling everything including vnc. I have gotten to the point where vncclient asks for a password and then reports an authentication error. Given my home/work 24 hour debug cycle I'm trying narrow down what could be wrong and on which end, client or serv

Can't start vnc service

2001-02-16 Thread Morris, Steve
On WinNT The "admin->install service" refuses to install a service; of course with no diagnostic info. I believe my problem is that winvnc is already listed as a service in the services list. Unfortunately I can find no way of deleting things from this list. The services utility allows disabling a

RE: VNC Newsgroup

2001-01-23 Thread Morris, Steve
I find that more and more companies to not support a USENET feed, perceiving that it is mostly used for personal purposes. It is seen as a lot of clutter for little benefit. It is mostly computer issues where there is a strong tradition of good USENET support, where USENET is considered a primary

RE: Kill Clients

2001-01-04 Thread Morris, Steve
It's best use for me is that CTRL-ESC ESC capability keeps going away. Killing the client from the server is to only way I have left to get out of full screen mode failing restarting the NT server itself. Why am I the only one seeing such strangeness? Sigh. What strange keyboard handling does vnc

vnc-list Outlook problems, was RE: Noise on the vnc-list :

2001-01-02 Thread Morris, Steve
I haven't bothered to look into it but the vnc-list mail format confuses MS outlook. It doesn't see the original sender unless you jump through some special hoops. The result is that is very hard for an Outlook user (at least the flavor used at my site) to reply directly to the sender instead of t

RE: Noise on the vnc-list : suggestion

2000-12-27 Thread Morris, Steve
Steve, "Appropriate topics of discussion" and "definition and management of abuse" are always valid topics of discussion on any list that does not have a separate administrative sublist or process. I have no personal issue to discuss with you. This is a public question. You took a public position

RE: Noise on the vnc-list : suggestion

2000-12-26 Thread Morris, Steve
Steve Bostedor [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] makes the silly arguement: > You're asking the other guy to sift through technical > manuals and FAQs for his answer, it doesn't seem consistent > that you are not willing to do the same. There is an asymmetry here. Asking people to look for obvious answers

ctl-esc esc gone

2000-12-20 Thread Morris, Steve
server problem, i.e. rebooting the server temporarily fixes the problem. Regards, Steve Morris - To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html -

RE: remote printing

2000-12-04 Thread Morris, Steve
The last time I printed to a file using a Windows driver for a postscript printer I got a postscript file as a result. This was quite a few years ago but I would be surprised if it has changed since then. It is already possible under Windows to print to an exported printer. Just configure your pr

RE: VNC vs Radmin (was RE: VNC vs PC Anywhere)

2000-11-29 Thread Morris, Steve
I heard of radmin here a week ago. I downloaded it immediately and had problem after problem. It crashed once. Mostly it had update problems with exceed X11 server windows. I also saw long pauses. It seems to gather more data before doing very fast screen updates. The update is impressive but woul

RE: Keyboard remapping bug?

2000-11-28 Thread Morris, Steve
> Above, you say that Outlook sees the correct key-mapping - > is this with or without VNC present? Outlook through VNC works fine with the special keys. > It sounds to me as though Exceed is doing some > low-level hackery to get the keyboard input values. Undoubtably. X11 servers have