RE: windows service

2001-06-26 Thread Mark Debenham
Well, you should be able to insert the registry keys needed with the pass etc so that you can have the password set, "Winvnc -defaultsettings" needs to be specified just incase the user has a different user specific password... And have you installed VNC at start up using "net use winvnc"? (having

RE:

2001-06-26 Thread Mark Debenham
Vnc is (in my opinion) much better than pc anywhere, and far less intrusive on a network where employees need as much available monitor space as possible. You should add a rule on your firewall which filters all connecting IP numbers (IP chains will do it)other than yours or your local LAN, you ca

Re:

2001-06-26 Thread James Pifer
Mark, I agree with you for the most part. VNC is great and much less intrusive. Just wish it had file transfer capabilities. I seem to always need that at one time or another. Also wish you had some different options for setting up security, instead of setting it locally on each install. I realiz

RE: VNC as spyware on TV

2001-06-26 Thread Matt Keyes
>> I've done it, just to prove it could be done... And to screw with a couple of my friend's heads :) -- I just ask for permission to hax0r their system (Not hack, hax0r -- There is a difference :), if they give it, then a couple weeks down the road once they think I've given up, I get VNC in and

RE:

2001-06-26 Thread Mark Debenham
Microsoft MSI package... Best way to do it, some info at : http://www.microsoft.com/TRAININGANDSERVICES/content/training/samples/2154/W ebfiles/Mod09/09m2.htm Mark -Original Message- From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 June 2001 13:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re:

2001-06-26 Thread Giles Roadnight
Thanks for replying people, also sorry for not giving my original message a Subject, only realised after I had sent it. Although I think that VNC is a really good little application I think I may go with PC anywhere as I do not know very much about security and so on so I would not want to have to

Re: Re:

2001-06-26 Thread Ryan Casey
> Mark, I agree with you for the most part. VNC is great and much less > intrusive. Just wish it had file transfer capabilities. I seem to always > need that at one time or another. I also have need of this at times. Interestingly enough though, the most recent time I used pcAnywhere's file tran

RE:

2001-06-26 Thread Matt Keyes
Yes, PC Anywhere is similar. However, security risks still remain, and I would not use it on a public machine unless absolutely necessary. I use PC Anywhere all the time though at work, and VNC at home. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gi

Light Servers

2001-06-26 Thread Ben Chapman
Are there any VNC Servers out there that do not need to be installed? Why would you want something like this...? If we want to provide technical assistance to a client, it is easier to pursued them to run a single .exe than to go through a whole installation and password-setting process - that s

RE: Light Servers

2001-06-26 Thread Matt Keyes
Not sure I understand... but you can get VNC servers to initiate sessions with their clients, and it is password protected. And, as a sys admin, I wouldn't want users freely using .exe's to open up holes in my security... I think centralizing control to a server is a good thing. Configurations

RE: VNC as spyware on TV

2001-06-26 Thread A. John Peters
Also, netmeeting requres an ILS server. Everyone has to authenticate to this server and then they can connect to another desktop. For my money, Netmeeting tries to do too many things in one package, but this way of doing things seems popular with the general public. John -Original Message-

RE:

2001-06-26 Thread Mark Debenham
PC Anywhere is far more in the public Domain and known about by Malicious Hackers etc, far more "cracking" programs exist for it than VNC (VNC r3 and below does have a remote pass cracker if I remember but generally very few are available except for non-public domain codings) If your firewall is s

RE: Re:

2001-06-26 Thread Mark Debenham
UDP (In my eyes) certainly is not suitable for FTP however if a UDP packet with a signature was sent which inturn triggered a TCP connection then maybe that would be a better way to go, only a thought, Mark -Original Message- From: Ryan Casey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 June 2001

RE:

2001-06-26 Thread Duane Waddle
And while it's a little Off-Topic, PCAnywhere works well with SSH, too. The setup is a little odd, but it does work. You need to add a registry key to the PCAW client to make it not require the UDP poll to complete before it connects to the remote. HKLM\Software\Symantec\pcANYWHERE\CurrentVersio

Re: Light Servers

2001-06-26 Thread Roger Pray
We used the Wise Installation Wizard to create our own local install of WinVNC. We don't give our users access to the WinVNC folder on the start menu, so we removed it from the wizard before we created the EXE. We then have them run a batch file which imports our password into their registry and

RE: Re:

2001-06-26 Thread Jonathan Morton
>UDP (In my eyes) certainly is not suitable for FTP however if a UDP packet >with a signature was sent which inturn triggered a TCP connection then maybe >that would be a better way to go, only a thought, Wait a second... VNC already uses TCP, not UDP. -- ---

WinVNC & x2vnc

2001-06-26 Thread McCarty, Michael
I've been using x2vnc 1.1 on IRIX 6.5 and WinVNC 3.3.3R9 on Win2K (installed as a service) for controlling both displays with one keyboard/mouse. Just recently, I've encountered a rather strange problem: I am unable to do CUA-style selection from the keyboard (i.e. -, etc.) in various applicatio

RE: Re:

2001-06-26 Thread Mark Debenham
..I was wondering just how "we" managed to maintain the connection...(Super UDP?) yes its hot and the air conditioning is off so thinking may not be a strong point!(Never is I hear you shout) Mark -Original Message- From: Jonathan Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 June 2001 15:1

Re: (the one with no subject...!)

2001-06-26 Thread a . umpleby
> Considering we are using UDP, ??? That's news to me... At the very least I know the Mac version uses TCP. Don't see how others could be different... anyone else know different? = Adrian Umpleby [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://w

Xvnc screensaver

2001-06-26 Thread a . umpleby
I was just reminded today of something I've been struggling with regarding Xvnc - that is the screensaver pattern (the 'gray' background with the big X). Is there a way to stop this coming up? There is a '-s' option listed for Xvnc, but it did not seem to make any difference at all to the time b

Running multiple users on seperae vnc connections

2001-06-26 Thread brandon willis
I have VNC installed and running for the root user to make sure it works. I am tryign to get other users to use it from there own account, but it will not start a session for them? It says there is already a server running, how do i get a seesion for them with their password?

Re: Re:

2001-06-26 Thread Ryan Casey
My apoligies if so. I thought it made its inital connection over TCP, then switched to UDP for communication. Ryan - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:13 AM Subject: RE: Re: > >UDP (In my eyes) certain

Socket errors

2001-06-26 Thread brandon willis
In regards to multipl users on my system here si the error that is going into the .log file: _XSERVTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind listener _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local

Re: Xvnc screensaver

2001-06-26 Thread Mark Harris
Adrian said, "I was just reminded today of something I've been struggling with regarding Xvnc - that is the screensaver pattern (the 'gray' background with the big X). Is there a way to stop this coming up?" --- The grey pattern and the large X are annoying at first to most users of an X ser

Re: Re:

2001-06-26 Thread Ryan Casey
So this brings us back to the first question: Can we add an RFB message type to get a data stream to a file instead of screen updates? Ryan - Original Message - From: "Mark Debenham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:21 AM Subject: RE: Re: > .

Re: Re:

2001-06-26 Thread Bryan Pendleton
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Ryan Casey wrote: > So this brings us back to the first question: > > Can we add an RFB message type to get a data stream to a file instead of > screen updates? A great idea came out of the last discussion about adding file exchange - VNC already knows how to do clipboard t

Re: Light Servers

2001-06-26 Thread Bryan A. Pendleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 06:24 AM 6/26/2001, you wrote: >Are there any VNC Servers out there that do not need to be installed? Yes. I haven't cleaned it up and released it back to the public yet, but I've built (for two past employers, actually) something exactly like wh

TCP/IP Ports

2001-06-26 Thread Tad Heckaman
What ports does VNC use? I need to set up my router/firewall for VNC and I need all the ports that it uses. Thanks Tad - To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www

Re: VNC as spyware on TV

2001-06-26 Thread Dave Warren
>> VNC is so simple to install that there's no reason it couldn't be deployed >> very easily by any EXE out there.<< > > Did you friends have the VNC ports closed or firewalled, or were they simply > vulnerable to the outside world? Some were, some were not. Did I install VNC on a default port?

Re:

2001-06-26 Thread Richard Schletty
I haven't been able to do a Clipboard transfer between Macs running Mac OS 9.x. Is it possible? If so, how? > From: Bryan Pendleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:54:05 -0700 (PDT) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Re: > > VNC already knows how

RE: TCP/IP Ports

2001-06-26 Thread Cory Grimster
I believe that is listed in the FAQ: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/faq.html#q52 Cheers, Cory Grimster www.2cpu.com www.houseofhelp.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tad Heckaman Sent: June 27, 2001 12:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S

VNC : Color Map

2001-06-26 Thread Peter . ONG
Hello, Anybody can help me on the following problem; I have compiled (using gcc 2.95.3) the VNC source under Solaris 2.7, I have tried on Solaris 2.7 (On Solaris 2.5.1 we do not have the javac..). I have some question that need your advice; 1.

Clipboard transfer between MACs

2001-06-26 Thread Bryan A. Pendleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 09:27 PM 6/26/2001, you wrote: >I haven't been able to do a Clipboard transfer between Macs running Mac OS >9.x. Is it possible? If so, how? Ok, well, that's not one I know how to handle. I haven't had easy access to an unrestricted MAC in sever