Can you ping that XP with its ip address? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Blake McSwain Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: VNC to WinXP (was: <no subject>)
(1) I have tried 4.0b with the same result. (2) The winme machine can connect to the xp box. This just keeps getting stranger. Thanks again, Blake -----Original Message----- From: Scott C. Best [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 3:41 PM To: Blake McSwain Subject: RE: VNC to WinXP (was: <no subject>) Blake: Two ideas: (1) try it with VNC version 4.0b on the WinXP machine (2) VNC into the WinME machine, and from there VNC into the WinXP machine. Does that work at all? Good luck! -Scott On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Blake McSwain wrote: > Both client and server are 3.3.7. Win2k works great - no problems. XP I > get authenicated, and a black screen. > > Thanks, > > Blake > > > Greetings, > > > > I hope some of you can point me in the right direction, I am completely > > stumped. I have used VNC for years and never had a single problem. > > > > At my clients office they have a Windows ME machine running Real VNC > server > > 3.3.7. There is an XP laptop that can connect fine while on the LAN. At > > home, I have a Windows 2000 server that can connect to the LAN through a > > PPTP tunnel and then connect to the Win ME box via VNC with no problems. > > The XP laptop on the same remote LAN, connecting the same way through the > > VPN cannot connect to the Win ME machine. VNC authenticates and then > shows > > a black screen that disconnects after a short time. > > > > I have searched the archives and read some stuff about the MTU setting. > I > > have changed it on the Win ME machine to 1400. I even turned off fast > user > > switching on the XP machine. I have tried both the VNC Client and the > java > > client. The java client appears to load but I never get the initial > screen. > > I have tried different viewer versions (ORL 3.3.3.3 REAL 3.3.7.0) and the > > latest tight VNC, all with similar results. > > > > So, I guess my questions are; Why does 2000 work and XP not? What am I > > missing? How do I go about diagnosing this? Any help will be greatly > > appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Blake > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott C. Best [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 2:45 PM > To: Blake McSwain > Subject: RE: VNC to WinXP (was: <no subject>) > > > > Huh, that is more interesting. :) What version of VNC on > the WinXP box? > > -Scott > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Blake McSwain wrote: > > > If the XP Laptop is on the LAN there are no problems. VNC works fine if > you > > take the VPN out of the equation. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Blake > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Behalf Of Scott C. Best > > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:32 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: VNC to WinXP (was: <no subject>) > > > > > > Blake: > > Since you can connect to the WinXP machine (ie, you get > > to the "authentication" part of the connection), you don't have > > any network or firewall problems to worry about. That's the good > > news. > > The bad news is that WinXP and VNC don't play very nicely > > with each other if you're not a little careful. Here's a list of > > potential problems you may see: > > > > http://faq.gotomyvnc.com/fom-serve/cache/76.html > > > > You can skip the first part, as it's about WinXP's firewall, > > and you're past that hurdle. One of the others is tripping you up... > > > > -Scott _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
