Filetransfer Tool

2000-11-30 Thread Oeschey, Lars
Hi, we currently plan to replace our Remote Control Tool (PC-Duo if anyone wants to know, quite cool, but also expensive) with VNC. Nearly all features of PC-Duo are also in VNC, though it is a bit slower. What I miss is a Filetransfer Tool, since our users need that (all on Win platform), and pe

Password/Registry Blank on Reboot

2000-11-30 Thread JoeHughes
Hi, I've recently installed VNC and think it is an excellant piece of software. I have read many emails and the FAQ on installing it across multiple machines, which to a point I have achieved. I am running a central network logon batch file, which when ran creates the appropriate directories, co

One cuestion about Windows CE and vnc client

2000-11-30 Thread Diaz Rodriguez, Eduardo
Any people have one pda with vnc client?? if it is running in your pda, can you send me?? I have a vnc client for windows CE. I have a Jornada 680 wiht Network PCMCIA card, it's runing well. The problem is went I want connect to a server of vnc with the client (windows CE). The program said me ab

RE: Password/Registry Blank on Reboot

2000-11-30 Thread Carillon, Mike
I do the exact same thing here. Except I spawn off from a logon.bat file a WSH script to process our logons. I think your problem is that even though you are importing registry entries into the current user it isn't going into the registry for the user that is currently logging on. I believe it

Blinking cursor

2000-11-30 Thread mtrapp
Our application has a blinking cursor, as such the viewer window in constantly being updated. I there a way to have the viewer only update the cursor and not the whole viewer page? I have tried the following viewer command vncviewer -encodings 'raw tight hextile corre rre' and even rearranged th

Win3.11, IE 3 and authority problems

2000-11-30 Thread Chris Matchett
I am excited about this software as it meets a need I have been trying to address. My query is that I am getting a proxy authority error when I run the VNCViewer from IE 3. This happens after I enter my password in the applet window and try to log in to the the other computer, a Win98 box. I u

Re: Blinking cursor

2000-11-30 Thread a . umpleby
> a way to have the viewer only update the cursor and not the > whole viewer page? The VNC server should only send regions of the screen that have been updated (i.e. only the blinking cursor). It might help if you let us know on which platform the server is running, and which VNC version? > th

WinVNC Screen problems...

2000-11-30 Thread Rafael Dreher
Hello people Im having problems wiht the winVNC display adapters. Im trying to conect an computer that uses Win95 fom a WinNT 4.0 machine. The problem is this, I gave the password em then appears an message, on the win95 machine, saying: "vncDesktop : current display is PLANAR, not CHUNKY! W

Password/Reg problems

2000-11-30 Thread Joe Hughes
Thanks for the help. To my knowledge of the registry & win9x the first settings loaded (in re: to users) is the HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT, so I'd imagine VNC should pick the password outta here.. The weird thing is, when they get prompted with the message if they hit cancel, the next time the machine bo

Re: Password/Reg problems

2000-11-30 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
The password is read from HKCU, HKLM/.../Default and HKLM/.../ HKEY_USERS/.Default is not read unless it happens to be the current user's registry area. James "Wez" Weatherall -- "The path to enlightenment is /usr/bin/enlightenment" Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge

Help... Connecting from office to home

2000-11-30 Thread A. Di Santo
Greetings, I hope I'm mailing this message to the proper person(s). I am one of many people at my office who are behind a proxy server and firewall. The firewall is a packet-filtering variety which has port 5800 open. When I use my netscape or I.E. browser to connect from my Winnt workstation 4.

RE: Password/Reg problems

2000-11-30 Thread Carillon, Mike
I believe we are talking about where does winvnc read its settings, after a reboot, when it is running as a service on a Win9x machine. There would be no user logged on when it starts up. I believe it should read them from HKLM. Here is some comments from the vnc source code // NEW (R3)

Re: Help... Connecting from office to home

2000-11-30 Thread Harmen van der Wal
"A. Di Santo" wrote: > > Greetings, > > I hope I'm mailing this message to the proper person(s). > > I am one of many people at my office who are behind a proxy server and > firewall. The firewall is a packet-filtering variety which has port 5800 > open. When I use my netscape or I.E. browser t

RE: Help... Connecting from office to home

2000-11-30 Thread Robert Wagner
Can you identify which router or firewall is giving you the "No route to Host" message? Try a traceroute. Can you hook into your home pc from the Proxy server, or a pc outside the firewall? I would start with the simplest route (outside the firewall) and work your way back. > -Original M

Re: Help... Connecting from office to home

2000-11-30 Thread Ed Valentine
I believe you need to open port 5900 as well. 5800 is used for the java client and 5900 is for actual data transfer from client to server. "A. Di Santo" wrote: > Greetings, > > I hope I'm mailing this message to the proper person(s). > > I am one of many people at my office who are behind a prox

Re: Announce: RDP to VNC

2000-11-30 Thread paul . killingley
This could be a very useful (and money saving) bit of software. I've compiled it under CygWin (with a few mods) and copied the EXE to the TS. It started no problem. Screen refresh and colours can be a bit dodgy at times though. Paul. ---

VNC vs. MS products

2000-11-30 Thread Glenn Mabbutt
Greetings all. I've searched the archives and I've seen threads similar to this from 1998 and 1999, but none recently :) I'm attempting to make an argument in favour of VNC over other solutions (and I've tested a bunch, some are good, others aren't). However, I don't really want to consider suc

polling via php

2000-11-30 Thread Sascha Schulte
Hi! I just subscribed to this list, looking for help. I allready searched the messages-archives without succes. So please excuse me if you heard this question 1 times before. :-) We have a win-Network over TCP-IP. Some days ago we started die replace our old RC-Prog by VNC. It works very

SSH and VNC

2000-11-30 Thread Serge Dutremble
I have tried to use SSH as specified in the documentation for encrypting my VNC session. I have succesfully installed OpenSSH on two Linux PCs and I can SSH between the two just fine. (PC1 is client and PC2 is server) On establishing the redirection from PC1 using: ssh -L 5802:home.dns.entry:58

Re: SSH and VNC

2000-11-30 Thread Joseph A. Knapka
Serge Dutremble wrote: > > I have tried to use SSH as specified in the documentation for encrypting my VNC > session. > > I have succesfully installed OpenSSH on two Linux PCs and I can SSH between the > two just fine. > > (PC1 is client and PC2 is server) > On establishing the redirection from

Re: BUG REPORT: Mac TridiaVNC Server v3.4.0 alpha 2

2000-11-30 Thread Tim Senecal
Adrian, > >It locks it completely - you have to restart? yep >> swapping the vncpatches68k for the tridiavnc patches... >> nudging the local console mouse "unsticks" the freeze. > >You mean vncPatches68k makes it worse... oh, great, just what I needed... > yep > >http://wrench.et.ic.ac.uk/ad

User notification

2000-11-30 Thread Hingston, Simon
Afternoon Just started looking at this tool today and so far, fantastic. Can anyone tell me if there is a way of notifying the user (i.e. the person with the server) that someone (i.e. the person with the viewer) is looking at their machine. Perhaps with a popup or a flashing systray icon? Any

Re: SSH and VNC

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan Morton
>I have tried to use SSH as specified in the documentation for encrypting >my VNC >session. > >I have succesfully installed OpenSSH on two Linux PCs and I can SSH >between the >two just fine. > >(PC1 is client and PC2 is server) >On establishing the redirection from PC1 using: > >ssh -L 5802:home.

Re: SSH and VNC

2000-11-30 Thread Matthias Szusdziara
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Consider the following: For opening a connection, VNC uses two ports: 58xx and 59xx, where xx is the display number (as it is called in the properties dialogue). If You want to forward a VNC Connection by SSH (or something else, maybe a proxy softw

Re: polling via php

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan Morton
>It works very well - on some machines. Allthough every machine is reachable >with the vnc-client and and even with any browser on port 5800, only some of >them respond to my php-query. Strangely only the faster machines (> 200mhz) >respond - with one 133 Mhz exception. The other 133mhz-machines d

Re: BUG REPORT: Mac TridiaVNC Server v3.4.0 alpha 2

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Babulic
on 11/29/00 2:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually, I would very much like to hear from people using the Tridia > VNC Server (both PPC and 68k), to find out if the drag phenomenon is > widespread. I have the drag problem too. Other problems: - double-clicking on an

Re: User notification

2000-11-30 Thread Matthias Szusdziara
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is a way: If someone is logged in, the WinVNC-tray-icon turns from white to black... think this is what you was looking for... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliat

Re: BUG REPORT: Mac TridiaVNC Server v3.4.0 alpha 2

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan Morton
>>It locks it completely - you have to restart? > >yep Locks completely? Dear me... I hope I can fix that before the next release. This may have been caused by two separate issues, both of which have subsequently been fixed. It should always be possible to release the mouse by nudging the phy

Xvnc -inetd and KDM/GDM

2000-11-30 Thread Craig Flanick
Greetings! What is the best way to have a login manager(KDM,GDM) prompt a user for a username and password when someone logs in? I like the ability to have the user to be able to choose his window manager at login(another reason to have kdm or gdm display at login). I am currently running vnc w

Re: User notification

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan Morton
>Can anyone tell me if there is a way of notifying the user (i.e. the person >with the server) that someone (i.e. the person with the viewer) is looking >at their machine. Perhaps with a popup or a flashing systray icon? Assuming Windows, the system tray icon turns black when a connection is in p

Re: BUG REPORT: Mac TridiaVNC Server v3.4.0 alpha 2

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Babulic
on 11/30/00 8:42 AM, Tim Senecal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> http://wrench.et.ic.ac.uk/adrian/software/vnc/vncPatches68k-dragtest.hqx > > downloaded, installed, and I have found no problem with it, drags of finder > icons drag the icon, and relatively quick on the updates too. Yep, it fixes

Re: User notification

2000-11-30 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
> >Can anyone tell me if there is a way of notifying the user (i.e. the person > >with the server) that someone (i.e. the person with the viewer) is looking > >at their machine. Perhaps with a popup or a flashing systray icon? > > Assuming Windows, the system tray icon turns black when a connectio

RE: User notification

2000-11-30 Thread Habermann, David (DA)
It would be nice if we could get Tridia to include this modification in their source (with a switch to activate, of course) as we seem to get fairly regular requests on this issue (and it would be nice if it was cross-platform, not just for Windows). Dave Habermann Dow Chemical Company -Ori

Re: BUG REPORT: Mac TridiaVNC Server v3.4.0 alpha 2

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan Morton
>on 11/29/00 2:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Actually, I would very much like to hear from people using the Tridia >> VNC Server (both PPC and 68k), to find out if the drag phenomenon is >> widespread. > >I have the drag problem too. > >Other problems: > - double-click

Re: BUG REPORT: Mac TridiaVNC Server v3.4.0 alpha 2

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan Morton
>>> http://wrench.et.ic.ac.uk/adrian/software/vnc/vncPatches68k-dragtest.hqx >> >> downloaded, installed, and I have found no problem with it, drags of finder >> icons drag the icon, and relatively quick on the updates too. > >Yep, it fixes the drag problem & seems a bit faster. > >Double-click, s

Re: User notification

2000-11-30 Thread Roberto Berlim Fonseca
How? I do not remember this in the documentation. Could you please show me where it is? TIA Roberto Berlim Fonseca - Original Message - From: "James ''Wez'' Weatherall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 2:46 PM Subject: Re: User notification >

Re: VNC vs. MS products

2000-11-30 Thread tschweikle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] > There's one tech in the office who insists that MS > products are the way to go, simply because most of our customers run MS OSes > and he considers it the "easiest" path. Is he shure there won't be one with Unix or MacOS? Absoluteley? Realy absoluteley? Will he sign

RE: User notification

2000-11-30 Thread Jonathan Morton
>It would be nice if we could get Tridia to include this modification in >their source (with a switch to activate, of course) as we seem to get fairly >regular requests on this issue (and it would be nice if it was >cross-platform, not just for Windows). Exactly how, from a user-interface point o

Re: User notification

2000-11-30 Thread E. Keith Johnson
Jonathan Morton on 30 Nov 00 at about 16:26 in "Re: User notification" wrote (>): > There is also a modified version available which actually pops up a > dialog asking for confirmation before the session is initiated. Confirmation with the intended "target"? Can someone provide the specifics on

RE: VNC vs. MS products

2000-11-30 Thread Kenneth Foster
If security is your major concern then maybe another product might be your best alternative. While VNC is a great product for a lot of areas, it does lack in a few definite areas that commercial products meet. 1: User authentication. The ability to use Domain based/centralized authenticati

RE: VNC vs. MS products

2000-11-30 Thread Richard Spaven
They may have MS Os's but do they all have exchange and Outlook. There are loads of companies running Notes, Eudora, Netscape. If any of your customers are old media types they will be running macs to do Graphic Design, Edit Film or just editor publications. Wintel is not the choice there. -O

Re: User notification

2000-11-30 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
See the AuthHosts and QuerySettings registry settings. The present release requires that AuthHosts exist, even if it's just set to "+:" - the next release will fix this. Cheers, James "Wez" Weatherall -- "The path to enlightenment is /usr/bin/enlightenment" Laboratory for Communicatio

Re: VNC vs. MS products

2000-11-30 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
> 5: Speed. While it is fast, its not the fastest protocol out there. It > falls behind some other solution. Actually, the protocol itself is very good at adapting to fast/slow networks. The speed problems people bring up are to do with the way VNC hooks Windows desktops. Cheers, James "Wez"

vncPatches68k and drag manager...

2000-11-30 Thread a . umpleby
I said: > Actually, I would very much like to hear from people using the Tridia > VNC Server (both PPC and 68k), to find out if the drag phenomenon is > widespread. Mike Babulic answered: > I have the drag problem too. Glad to see it is a 'normal' problem (if you see what I mean...) What machi

Re: BUG REPORT: Mac TridiaVNC Server v3.4.0 alpha 2

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Babulic
on 11/30/00 9:51 AM, Jonathan Morton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The double-click problem *may* be fixed by the Drag Manager patch in Adrian's > latest patches, but just as likely not. I'm working on a better fix for the > double-click issue. Nope, the Drag manager patch didn't fix it. Doubl

RE: VNC vs. MS products

2000-11-30 Thread Glenn Mabbutt
Good points. I've gotten Zebedee to work as an encrypted tunnel between Windows clients, it runs in the background as a service. Also, since it's WinVNC, I've enabled user acknowledgement. Basically if I get approval I'm going to probably put together setup "packages" that the person doing the s

Re: Filetransfer Tool

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Babulic
on 11/30/00 1:07 AM, Oeschey, Lars at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone have an idea regarding the filetransfer? Perhaps some > lightweight freeware ftp for Win, that we just start when needed? Why not just use Windoze file sharing? 1) Create a shared "Outgoing Files" folder on your centra

Re: User notification

2000-11-30 Thread Roberto Berlim Fonseca
Ok. But still do not work, would you help me? Win98 box, IP 192.168.1.57 Registry is this: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\WinVNC3] "SocketConnect"=dword:0001 "AutoPortSelect"=dword:0001 "InputsEnabled"=dword:0001 "LocalInputsDisabled"=dword: "QuerySetting"=dword:000

problem running vnc on Solaris 7

2000-11-30 Thread Edwood Ng
Hi, I'm experiencing problem with running VNC Server on Solaris 7. I could start the server with vncserver through a telnet session with no problem and am able to connect through vncviewer. I could see the window manager and the xterm running. However, as soon as I exit out from this telnet se

Re: vncPatches68k and drag manager...

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Babulic
on 11/30/00 11:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Glad to see it is a 'normal' problem (if you see what I mean...) > What machines/OSes etc. is this on? Server: Powermac 8100/110, 32mb, Mac OS 8.6, Open Transport 2.0.3 Client: 3.3.3.2 on NT Workstation v4 --

Re: VNC vs. MS products

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Babulic
If you are ONLY Windoze & Mac, then Timbuktu is a nice product -- Mike Babulic, Management Systems Analyst Engineering Computer Services, The City of Calgary [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 268-2520 -- - To unsubscrib

RE: VNC vs. MS products

2000-11-30 Thread Alastair Carey
Exchange Conferencing Server and VNC are not really comparable products. Exchange Conferencing does offer whiteboarding facilities and remote control a la VNC (although it's at the application level, not the entire screen) but it's multicasting and, of course, primarily offers full video conferenc

Re: User notification

2000-11-30 Thread Jens Wagner
Jonathan Morton schrieb: > ... > Exactly how, from a user-interface point of view, would you intend > implementing confirmation on, say, Xvnc? With x0rfbserver this is less of > a problem, but... Ok, it's on my list now :-) For Xvnc, there could be an new command line option like -co

not a bug report for tridiaVNC mac server alpha 2

2000-11-30 Thread Tim Senecal
Jonathan & Adrian... >The modifier-key problem/fix is in the application, which is currently not >released with that fix. Please be patient... yes, yes, we are simply trying to help you create a server that finally seems to be stable enough to actually use :) So please accept our input in th

RE: User notification

2000-11-30 Thread W. Brian Blevins
David, > RE: User notification > > From: Habermann, David (DA) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 11:45:30 EST > > It would be nice if we could get Tridia to include this modification in > their source (with a switch to activate, of course) as we seem to get fairly > regular reque

Re: VNC vs. MS products

2000-11-30 Thread Mike Rehbein
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >[...] >> There's one tech in the office who insists that MS >> products are the way to go, simply because most of our customers run MS >OSes > > and he considers it the "easiest" path. > > and the key words, which are HIS :) "most" is not all plus, he must be seeki

keyboard problems

2000-11-30 Thread Neil Zanella
Hello, I have asked for help before but have gotten very little feedback, I am running the latest version of VNC and have a US QWERTY keyboard. When I run the vncserver and then the vncviewer on Linux I get the twm manager and an xterm but when I type "qwerasdfzxcv" I get "c.gvabfhz/d," instead.

When to use various encodings

2000-11-30 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I've been using VNC for a couple of years now, almost always with copyrect hextile encoding. Despite looking over all the FAQ's and documentation, I have yet to see a really good explaination of when I might want to use any of the other encodings, or what the pros and cons between them. Can anyone