Angelo, This information is not correct. The VNC Viewer's AutoReconnect feature is capable of reconnect without requiring the password to be re-entered by the user regardless of whether the connection was launched from a VNC Configuration (.vnc) file.
Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Angelo Sarto > Sent: 06 April 2005 17:31 > To: Dr. Joel M. Hoffman > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Error while waiting for server message > > In RealVnc's latest release you can get close to this: > > 1. Connect to the server > 2. Open the options and save the configuration file (include password > if you want) > 3. There is also an option for prompt to reconnect. > > When run from this config file if it loses its connection it will ask > if it should reconnect, click yes and (if necessary) type the > password. > > It will also offer to recoonnect if it fails normally but you will > need to retype the password too. > > I save my passwords since my win box always locks and I have ip > filtering on the server too. > > --Angelo > > On Apr 6, 2005 10:46 AM, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is an issue that's been bothering me for many years as > I've used > > VNC. Sometimes (I think when there's a temporary glitch in the > > internet connection, but I'm not sure), the Windows VNC > viewer I used > > (Tight VNC, but I think all of the viewers do this) will disconnect > > automatically, giving me the error message "Error while waiting for > > server message." Then I have to relaunch the viewer, and reenter my > > password. This is quite annoying. > > > > Is there some way to request "auto-reconnect," so that if the viewer > > suffers this sort of error, it will automatically try to reconnect? > > Ideally, it would automatically reconnect to the same site and try > > using the same password, but I don't know if the VNC keeps the > > password in memroy. (For me, the tiny potential security risk of > > having the passowrd in memory would be worth it.) > > > > Many thanks. > > > > -Joel > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
