Re: DOS box

2000-12-01 Thread simonD
Adam Elliott wrote: > > At work I use a DOS based software system that I would like to be able > to remotely connect to from any WINDOWS machine using the internet. > > Currently the DOS system is on a LAN with a WINDOWS system that is > connected to a DSL. Could I somehow, using VNC, connect t

Re: remote printing

2000-12-04 Thread simonD
Michael Schwarz wrote: > > I have an application where I need to remote print using VNC. Is this > possible? I need to run a program on the remote printer and print it > locally. Is this possible? Any help or pointers would be appreciated. > VNC makes your desktop act as a glorified green scree

Re: right mouse - Mac to NT

2000-12-08 Thread simonD
Noah Eiger wrote: > > I must be missing something. Please enlighten me. > > How does one send a right-mouse click from a Mac client to an NT box > running VNC server? Ideally, I would like my two-button Mac mouse to > use _its_ right mouse button, but will settle for some command-key > combo. RT

Re: VNC administration tool

2001-01-04 Thread simonD
Alfrep Lilliendahl wrote: > > Is there an administration tool where you can see all workstations vnc is > running on ? nmap Linux (unix) command line tool. You can see a lot more besides, if you want. Simon - To unsubscribe, sen

Re: VNC connection

2001-01-05 Thread simonD
Avishay & Orna wrote: > > Hi > I would like to control my mother's WIN ME machine from my WIN NT machine. > Our computers are not connected. > I understand that a TCP/IP connection should be established in order to use > VNC. > If both machines will be connected to the internet on the same time w

Re: client-side printing

2001-01-08 Thread simonD
Ron Goldman wrote: > > Currently if someone wishes to print from an application running in a VNC > session, the printer must be visible to the computer running the VNC server > (and the server also probably needs to have a driver for that type of > printer). If the user is behind a firewall or do

Re: client-side printing

2001-01-08 Thread simonD
James ''Wez'' Weatherall wrote: > > > Currently if someone wishes to print from an application running in a VNC > > session, the printer must be visible to the computer running the VNC > server > > (and the server also probably needs to have a driver for that type of > > printer). If the user is

Re: client-side printing

2001-01-10 Thread simonD
Ron Goldman wrote: > > Thanks to Simon & James for the comments. > > Fortunately I don't need to come up with an all inclusive printing > solution. Basically my problem is to enable users running a modified vnc > viewer on their local computer (Linux/Mac/PC), who are connected over the > interne

Re: Seperate Desktop for Clients on Linux

2001-01-15 Thread simonD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > you will need to run Xvnc multiple times > and then users can connect to :0 :1 :2 etc.. BTW: why are we forced to use numbers to identify the desktops? These are just artefacts of which order the desktops were loaded, surely it would be better to christen them; then

Names and not numbers for VNC sessions

2001-01-19 Thread simonD
Would it not be much nicer if we could have names for our vnc sessions, rather than numbers. The numbers (:1,:2,...) are just artefacts of the order the vncservers were run. It would be much nicer if I could get to a vnc session as ":simon" or ":typesetting"; then the server worries about which nu

Re: printing

2001-01-29 Thread simonD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If I log in to VNC from a remote location, and print a document - how can I > get it to print on my end and not the host computer? Any printer that the vncserver m/c can see. So for most people this will be an SMB (Win/DOS or Linux samba) by your desk. The major sec

NT VNC viewer won't run

2001-02-02 Thread simonD
vncviewer works fine on our macs & Linux and w98, but not on NT. The viewer app runs briefly, does its dialogs and then hangs around for ~10s and then terminates. And that's it. No error messages from either vncviewer or windows gpf. What's going on? -- Simon Dales, Publication Software Engineer

Re: newbie question

2001-02-06 Thread simonD
Nando2 wrote: > > Hello all! > > I would like to manage my Linux system through VNC remotely with my Palm V. > > What I need to do is to have access to the bash command line. run xterm (et al) on the vncserver m/c. > Does VNC support that or It can be only used with X Windows? > > Also, Does

makeing a beep

2001-02-13 Thread simonD
Is vnc supposed to permit beeps to come from the remote applications? If a remote application wants a beep, then it should make my vnccleient sound. -- Simon Dales, Publication Software Engineer "The impossible is easy" Nuffield Press Ltd., 21 Nuffield Way, Abingdon, Oxford, OX14 1RL,UK +44-1235

Re: Exporting sound with VNC

2001-02-13 Thread simonD
"Thomas B. Lerman" wrote: > > Assuming all Windows . . . Maybe something simplier may be to invent a new > message that the server sends a "play sound" command followed by a "which > sound event to play". The sound on the client side would be played according > to the event number (using maybe Pl

Re: Exporting sound with VNC

2001-02-13 Thread simonD
Mac Reiter wrote: > > Sick and Painful Though-Of-The-Day: > > If you can guarantee that the Win32 based server has it's audio recording > system set up to Record from all output channels, including "Wave Out", I > have a class that will call a function of your choosing for every N samples > of a

Re: How to right-click w/Macintosh input devices?

2001-02-14 Thread simonD
Bart Windrum wrote: > > How do I configure VNC client, under MacOS 9.1, so I can execute what > Windows will recognize as a right click? I've perused the Global Key > Mapping window's popup lists but I don't understand their contents or > nomenclature. > > I'm aiming to cause a Control-click, wh