RE: hook video driver

2001-09-05 Thread Rudi De Vos
Look at the code at www.codeguru.com dll apihijack -Original Message- From: Gianluca Bruni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 7:20 PM To: Rudi De Vos Subject: R: hook video driver Hi, thaks for reply. I apologize I can't help you. I'm a Windows programmer but I

Re: Bug report v3.3.3 r9 - Win2k machine reboots on exit

2001-09-05 Thread Kevin-John Beasley
Check your system settings and cmake sure that the machine does not auto-reboot after a blue screen of death. I had a server doing something like this when loading a specific program and what I found was that the memory dump was so quick I never saw the blue screen. If that's not the problem I gue

Re: hidden "Start" console - CTRL + ESC sequence

2001-09-05 Thread Zoran Pantic
Eric, thanx for the help. But, I tried those things you suggested, and the only one that works is the first one; both shift+alt+tab and shift+ctrl+escape are executing on my win2000pro viewer machine, and not on the vnc server machine. It is strange that the first one works, and two others don't.

New Version of VNC Commander available

2001-09-05 Thread Tony Caduto
Hi All, A new version of VNC Commander is available for download. I have incorporated some of your ideas into this release, such as: Improved details view, now has sort arrows on the column headers, and it remembers where you left it last. Display name does not change when editing the server addre

Bug report - Win2k machine reboots

2001-09-05 Thread Zoran Pantic
I have the same problem with my win2000pro sp2 machine, and that problem was there before I had sp2, and even before I had VNC. On our little LAN there are other computers who have VNC running the whole time and no problems, ever! I can see in a event viewer that "machine was restarted after a bu

Re: Bug report v3.3.3 r9 - Win2k machine reboots on exit

2001-09-05 Thread Jeff Veit
Thanks, Yeah I do auto reboot on. It's quite possible that's what's happening - I've got it set to only write a small memory dump. I'll switch auto reboot off and see what happens. Thanks again. Jeff http://www.tanasity.com/ - Tanasity develops software and net applications http://www.tangledti

Re: Bug report - Win2k machine reboots

2001-09-05 Thread Yan Seiner
I fought a similar problem on a linux-based toshiba laptop. I finally solved the problem by turning off as much of the power saving stuff as possible. I would disable all power management, sound, multimedia, etc. and see if the problem persists. Then enable one at a time. I've found apm to be

Re: hook video driver

2001-09-05 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
Rudi, I noticed your mail to the VNC list regarding a hooking video driver. >From your mail, it sounds as though you have this on Windows 2000/NT. Is that correct? You mentioned some confusion in tracking window changes. Can you give more detail as to why this confusion exists, and I'll

Re: Bug report v3.3.3 r9 - Win2k machine reboots on exit

2001-09-05 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
Jeff, Have you tried running WinVNC as any other user (especially non-administrative ones) and doing the same thing? It sounds as though your machine may have a virus or hardware problem. No application should be able to cause an instant reset of an NT/2K box unless NT/2K has a bug that a

"reboot on": Bug report v3.3.3 r9 - Win2k machine reboots on exit

2001-09-05 Thread Zoran Pantic
Hi Jeff, what do you mean having "reboot on", and having a small memory dump? I aks because my machine is also bubbling about "saving memory dump" whilst those sudden restarts... Where do I find this "auto reboot" settings, and how do I switch it off? Thanx in advance,

Re: Bug report - Win2k machine reboots

2001-09-05 Thread Zoran Pantic
Hello Yan! I seem to have the similar problem, and I also turned power savings off. No help. But now when you mentioned those multimedia and sound stuff, I can remember that once I got a blue screen complaining about some sound driver (which is btw properly installed and is newest version). What

Re: Bug report v3.3.3 r9 - Win2k machine reboots on exit

2001-09-05 Thread Zoran Pantic
Hello James, what do you mean by "bug" - maybe a damaged win nt/2k that should be installed from the scratch? I have a machine that is making those sudden resets, but still I am in doubt are they caused by hw error, or win error. Windows reports an error in event viewer after those restars, but i

Re: Bug report - Win2k machine reboots

2001-09-05 Thread Yan Seiner
OT and getting more so - Keep in mind that most of my experience is with linux, and none with W2K. In linux, I can simply unload those portions of the OS I don't want to use (like sound, dvd, etc.). In windows, I would assume you need to uninstall drivers and disable the automatic driver insta

RE: Bug report - Win2k machine reboots

2001-09-05 Thread Nick Palmer
You could always use device manager to disable the devices that you don't want - they're still there, but the drivers don't get loaded. Nick Palmer IT Manager > -Original Message- > From: Yan Seiner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 05 September 2001 12:22 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sub

RE: hook video driver

2001-09-05 Thread Rudi De Vos
The hook driver capture the rectangles and points passed to the driver drvbitblt and drvcopybits functions. The destination rectangles are screen coordinates, source rectangles are window coordinates. Vnc needs only to know the place that changed (for bitblt is this ok) But when you want to use "

Xvnc view only

2001-09-05 Thread Alex Dyas
hi, I've looked in the docs, and the mailing list archive, and I'm beginning to suspect that this is not possible, but I'd like someone to confirm it. I would like to run Xvnc as read-only, ie allow people to connect but not to be able to alter anything. I know the client can be run in read-onl

Re: Xvnc view only

2001-09-05 Thread Ehud Karni
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 12:58:01 +0100 (BST), Alex Dyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've looked in the docs, and the mailing list archive, and I'm beginning to > suspect that this is not possible, but I'd like someone to confirm it. I would > like to run Xvnc as read-only, ie allow people to conne

grey screen with cursor only on solaris/sparc

2001-09-05 Thread David Edward Shapiro
Hello, I saw a thing in the faq that said something about the xstartup program and needing maybe to use some other thing other than twm. If I run something like reflections at my workstatoin and run the xstartup, howerver, I do get a unix command prompt fine, so it is not the xstartup script. I

Re: TightVNC crash on 6 of 16 NT servers

2001-09-05 Thread Eric Carlson
The 5 servers with the most TightVNC crashes are running ATI Video cards, but with different drivers. I also checked 4 that are working okay, and 2 are running ATI, but at only 256 colors, and 2 are not running ATI. Here are the details: - #1 - 800x600x16-bit, 75.hz - Chip: "ATI 3D Rage

Re: Bug report v3.3.3 r9 - Win2k machine reboots on exit

2001-09-05 Thread Kevin-John Beasley
James you only need look at Microsoft's APM code for about 12 seconds to understand how many problems it causes. And that is just the start. If you run a nice clean server with only Microsoft Server Apps on it it "should" work fine. Considering I can rewrite the entire memory contents of Win 2K fr

Re: Bug report - Win2k machine reboots

2001-09-05 Thread Kevin-John Beasley
At least in linux I get a error when I try to rewrite the entire contents of memory insted of this stupid windows idea of "it's ok, it's a nice program taking control of some stuff, Ok it's done now, What the??? NOOO! Crash Bang Boom" idea. Maybe microsoft should work on different colours

Re: hook video driver

2001-09-05 Thread James ''Wez'' Weatherall
--- But when you want to use "copyrect" you also need the source info, you have to know the source rectangle before you can copy him to the destination. I'm still try to find a way to translate the window coordinates to screen coordinates. The hook driver pass a RECT for bitblt and a RECT and POIN

RE: Ctrl Alt Del

2001-09-05 Thread David Brodbeck
This is a frequently asked question. Yes, all the viewer programs allow you to send a Ctrl-Alt-Del to the remote machine. How you do it depends on the platform the viewer is running on. Under Linux, you can just press Ctrl-Alt-Del, but you may have to configure your local window manager to igno

Re: Using VNC For Two Systems

2001-09-05 Thread Joe Mac
Well, looking around, I found x2vnc: http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/x2vnc.html which does exactly what I want, but doesn't run on Win2k (it's X-Windows based). Anything like this for Windows? --- Peter Krala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I understand what you are trying to do correctly, > prob

RE: Interactively Disable Local Keyboard and Mouse

2001-09-05 Thread David Brodbeck
Did you read his post? He noted, paranthetically, that you can set it up so that if no one answers, it times out after a set number of seconds and lets you in. -Original Message- From: Fisher, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 4:41 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED

Explanation of terms please.

2001-09-05 Thread Mitch
Hi all All of the nodes on my home LAN run under Win98SE. I have WinNVC running on my server node and can successfully log into it from the other nodes with vncviewer. However ... ... could somebody please explain to me the significance/purpose of 'add client' and 'running the viewer in listen m

Re: New Version of VNC Commander available

2001-09-05 Thread Lee Douglas
Tony, It just keep getting better! Thanks! Lee At 02:57 PM 9/4/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Hi All, >A new version of VNC Commander is available for download. >I have incorporated some of your ideas into this release, such as: >Improved details view, now has sort arrows on the column headers, and it

Re: Bug report - Win2k machine reboots

2001-09-05 Thread Andre Tertling
Kevin-John Beasley wrote: > > Maybe microsoft should work on different colours for it's Blue Screens of > Death. They don't seam to be fixing them There is already a tool to configure the colors for your bluescreens :D Sorry, couldn't resist :D -- Regards, Andre Tertling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --

Log file size

2001-09-05 Thread Maurice Lafleur
Hello everyone, I posted this yesterday, but I don't think it turned up to the list (I didn't receive it for majordomo..). So here goes: ---> I am new to this list but not to Vnc. We have been using this marvellous piece of software for the past 2.5 years here at the college and are really happy

RE: Undocumented port in use by VNCviewer in Listen Mode?

2001-09-05 Thread Zalman Margareten
Very clearly explained, John. I would suggest running a "network monitor" through an entire VNC session and watching when/if it communicates with port 5400. Such a monitor was mentioned in this VNC-list sometime last week and I posted a message inquiring what monitor was used. I so far haven't re

Re: Undocumented port in use by VNCviewer in Listen Mode?

2001-09-05 Thread Seanster
Ok lets wrap this up. Port 5400 is for the 'Flasher'. Here is what it says in the source code: // Flasher is used with the AT&T internal version of VNC, when the user may need to // choose which monitor in a room should be used to display his desktop. A server can // connect to a listening viewe

Re: Log file size

2001-09-05 Thread Jeff Boerio
As far as I know, nothing bad will happen. But it depends on how a connect Xvnc session behaves with its logfiles. That is, does it only open the file when it needs to append it? Or, does it keep the file open while the VNC session is connected. Certainly, "cat /dev/null > ~username/.vnc/hostn

Re: hidden "Start" console - CTRL + ESC sequence

2001-09-05 Thread Eric Gisse
yea. guess i was wrongive been told that adding shift to any sequence works, and ive only needed C/A/D so far :-P At 11:18 AM 9/5/2001 +0200, you wrote: >Eric, thanx for the help. > >But, I tried those things you suggested, and the only one that works is the >first one; both shift+alt+tab a

Password Question

2001-09-05 Thread Miani, Thomas
Hello all : Our company is using VNC on an NT work station enabling our customers to control and view that station. Due to security reasons our customers want to change the password of the actual VNC connection, most times they are connected to the NT station thro

RE: New Version of VNC Commander available

2001-09-05 Thread John Clegg
Excellent, thank you John > -Original Message- > From: Tony Caduto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 8:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: New Version of VNC Commander available > > > Hi All, > A new version of VNC Commander is available for download.

Re: New Version of VNC Commander available

2001-09-05 Thread Wojtowicz, Peter
Spectacular! I've already entered 15 of my servers into it. Two things I've noticed.. When viewing as "Details", the last column "Show connection Timer" should either be named "Hide connection Timer", or the value for each entry should be flipped from false to true.. It also doesn't seem to ha

RE: New Version of VNC Commander available

2001-09-05 Thread Joe Sarinana
Assume ! I'm about 2 hours new to this VNC s.w. and I'm already starting to feel warm and fuzzy inside. ? how can I hide the server icon on a computer and still be able to connect to it from my viewer computer ? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behal

multiple vncclients?

2001-09-05 Thread Michael Urban
I have a vnc server running on a win2000 box. Multiple users wish to connect to it. Presently whenever someone connects with vncclient, anyone else connected loses their connection. Is it possible to have multiple connections? Is it possible to prevent others from connecting if one already is c

RE: New Version of VNC Commander available

2001-09-05 Thread Carstensen, Pete
Can I use the /shared switch on the new Commander version? *** Pete Carstensen, MCSE Senior LAN Engineer CSK Auto, Inc. 645 E. Missouri Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85012 (602) 631-7176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.

X windows server

2001-09-05 Thread Pons, Eric
What I am trying to do is make it so that X-windows uses VNC server, but when you logon with a VNC Viewer you get an actual logon screen. So the user must have an account with that machine and the user merely logs into his account with VNC viewer. How would I setup Linux to do this? I have seen it

Re: New Version of VNC Commander available

2001-09-05 Thread Mark_Johnson
I have downloaded the new VNC Commander 1.0.0.46. I found that if you don't use the File/Exit command when exiting the prog, VNC_Commander.e will remain active on the sys tray. It can be killed through task manager though. Is there an option for Full Screen ?, I didn't see one.but have only

Hiding icon

2001-09-05 Thread Joe Sarinana
I'm new to VNC, how can I hide the icon on a server and still connect to it from a viewer ? _ Joe Sarinana Network and CAD System Manager. KSN INC. www.ksninc.com 209-946-0268 - To unsubscribe, send a message with the line

RE: Interactively Disable Local Keyboard and Mouse

2001-09-05 Thread Fisher, Dave
I am aware of the registry entries, I have included them below. Maybe you could explain to me how to set the registry settings to accept a connection upon time out. According to the doc below, the timeout entry "indicates the number of seconds for which the Accept Connection dialog will be disp

Re: New Version of VNC Commander available

2001-09-05 Thread Tony Caduto
Yes, it was designed that way IE so you have to use the exit button or the file-exit in the main menu. I did it that way because if you are not using the viewer it takes up minimal resources and can be left running in the tray until you need it again Currently there is not a option for full screen

ssh and vnc and java

2001-09-05 Thread David Edward Shapiro
I liked the http://server:5801 stuff. I want to do this using ssh though. I have securecrt. I set up my local workstation port 5801 to point to remote vnc server port 5801 (solaris 2.8/sparc running latest vnc) and then did http://localhost:5801. It got me the login, but after I log in it gives

Re: Hiding icon

2001-09-05 Thread Jonathan Maton
"Hiding the tray icon" This is sort of a "taboo" issue... mainly because there seems to be no legitimate reason to hide the server's icon. The only reason I can think of is to facilitate spying on someone, which I believe the good folks at AT&T Research are not interested in advertising, especia

Re: New Version of VNC Commander available

2001-09-05 Thread Tony Caduto
There is a option to do that with the ActiveX control that it uses, I just did not add it. VNC Commander is a work in progress, so it will get better with further releases. Remember, I am doing this in my spare time, so it may not happen right away. Tony Caduto - Original Message - From:

Re: X windows server

2001-09-05 Thread Lee Allen
I am running Xvnc on Linux in inetd mode, using xdm. This prompts the user for (Linux) user name and password. -Lee Allen - Original Message - From: Pons, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 12:50 PM Subject: X windows server > What I a

RE: Hiding icon

2001-09-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CLAP,CLAP,CLAP on the spying thing and the good folks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jonathan Maton Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hiding icon "Hiding the tray icon" This is sort of a "t

RE: Hiding icon

2001-09-05 Thread Joe Sarinana
The only reason I want to hide this icon is because I have a computer WIN98 running on a peer to peer network that has JetAdmin installed on it. This computer is our print server for this peer network and from time to time some of the users need to log into this computer and screw with the print j

RE: Hiding icon

2001-09-05 Thread Glenn Mabbutt
Also, Tridia (http://www.tridiavnc.com) includes an icon-disabling registry key in their VNC distro. -Original Message- From: Joe Sarinana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hiding icon I'm new to VNC, how can I hide the

VNC Access to pcs behind firewalls

2001-09-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone's got a clue (besides reading the doc and me being a wizard - however competent to set firewall policies) of how to remotely support people sitting behind a firewall (with NAT) translation txs Dietmar [demime 0.97b removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of wi

Re: ssh and vnc and java

2001-09-05 Thread SI Reasoning
you might have to also ssh -L 5801:remoteserver:5801 -L 5901:remoteserver:5901 firewall --- David Edward Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I liked the http://server:5801 stuff. I want to do > this using ssh though. > I have securecrt. I set up my local workstation > port 5801 to point to > r

RE: VNC Access to pcs behind firewalls

2001-09-05 Thread Salvatore Palmisano
I do this all the time, just map your VNC connect port to the IP of the machine you're looking for and viola. Granted, this means you need either access to the firewall device or you'll have to convince an admin to add the mapping for you. --Salvatore -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROT

Send Ctrl+Esc to remote computer : really no one knows how ?

2001-09-05 Thread Stéfane Bridy
Hello I asked yesterday how to send Ctrl+Esc to bring up the start menu on a remote machine, but none of the suggestions work ... Does anyone know ? Best thanx for your help Stifane from Stitzerland > Well, I tried out your hints ... > > "shift ctrl+alt+del" works, but it isn't vital as

RE: Send Ctrl+Esc to remote computer : really no one knows how ?

2001-09-05 Thread john_pierson
the pain in the Butt method is to select CTRL Down from the menu, press Esc and there you have it (don't forget to select CTRL Up from the menu aftwards to reset it) John -Original Message- From: Stifane Bridy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:00 PM To: [EM

RE: Building VNC for SCO

2001-09-05 Thread Matt Jusko
Tim- Hi. My name is Matt Jusko and I am in the same boat regarding compiling the VNC server for SCO Openserver. I was just wondering if you ever got it done and if so, would you share how? Any help would be appreciated. Matt Jusko [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tim Sampson

RE: Hiding icon

2001-09-05 Thread Zalman Margareten
I will tell you how to do it if I can only understand what you are trying to accomplish. All they will see is the IP address (when they move the curser over the icon). You can disable opening the properties when clicking on the icon (in the latest version.) I don't recall how but it is explained i

RE: New Version of VNC Commander available

2001-09-05 Thread Zalman Margareten
Great product! thanks Am I missing something? In the list of computers I only see icons with no description of which computers they are. Oh I just noticed, when in the "view details" mode it will list server name. I think that name should appear as default with all views since all icons look the

Re: vnc as service on w2k

2001-09-05 Thread Ceri Hankey
I have just been thru the same process and found that Win2K had THREE password settings in the registry... HKEY_CURRENT USER and HKEY_USERS had the same key that I had set BUT the HKEY_LOC_MACHINE had a different Default password. I cheated by copying the HKEY_USER password for WinVNC to the HKE

RE: VNC Access to pcs behind firewalls

2001-09-05 Thread Zalman Margareten
Are u asking about incoming connections or outgoing? Also what firewall do u have, application level, Socks ? You might have to go with some type of tunneling. Give us more details. -Original Message- From: Salvatore Palmisano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 200

Beta mirror hook driver working

2001-09-05 Thread De Vos Rudi
Hookdll and polling disabled and it seems to work. Thanks for the hint, I forgot that the cached bitmaps are also copied using drvcopybits. Ringbuffer of 100 was also to small, gets more than 1000/s. Bigger buffer solved the problem of bad updates. still to do 1) Driver need to check if the vncsi

VNC Commander - what is it? (newbie)

2001-09-05 Thread Ellen Reisinger
I have searched the http://www.uk.research.att.com/cgi-bin/htsearch to try and find out what vnc commander is. but there were no hits for "vnc commander". can someone please point me in the right driection to read what it is (or for that matter more on vnc). Cheers, Ellen

Java viewer is faster than native Windows Viewer!?

2001-09-05 Thread Muhamad Alturkistany
Hi I did some performance evaluation and found Java viewer is faster than the native Windows one. Did any one at uk.research.att.com notice this? My intuition, it may be Windows viewer is not optimized specially its use of threads. Any comment is welcome. M Al-Turkistany -

Changing WinVNC service port

2001-09-05 Thread Darryl Ackerman
Does anyone know how to change the port that the server listens on? Thanks, Darryl - To unsubscribe, send a message with the line: unsubscribe vnc-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.htm

RE: Hiding icon

2001-09-05 Thread Fisher, Dave
Here is the registry doco on hiding the properties: WinVNC - Advanced Settings Extra options have been added to WinVNC for use primarily by system administrators, to tailor the server's behavior to meet their particular needs. The options are DWORD values which can be set in the system registry

Re: VNC Commander - what is it? (newbie)

2001-09-05 Thread Tony Caduto
You can find out about VNC Commander at my website. http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com Tony Caduto - Original Message - From: "Ellen Reisinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2029 7:24 PM Subject: VNC Commander - what is it? (newbie) > I have sear

Re: New Version of VNC Commander available

2001-09-05 Thread Tony Caduto
You must be missing something, In the large icon mode each icon has a caption that describes the connection. Tony Caduto - Original Message - From: "Zalman Margareten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:35 PM Subject: RE: New Version of VNC

RE: Hiding icon

2001-09-05 Thread Ellen Reisinger
Can someone explain this to me in really simple terms (please). I have been in to regedit, found have drilled own and found values under each of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ORL\WinVNC3\ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ORL\WinVNC3\Default HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ORL\Wi

RE: VNC Commander - what is it? (newbie)

2001-09-05 Thread Ellen Reisinger
Wow! This is great! We currently have no systems in place to manage our 300 odd computers and 5 servers. We have just started getting into VNC. I can't wait to have winVnc installed on all the workstations! With VNC Commander - Is there a limit to the number of computers you can have listed