That's interesting though - these systems are used as remote data loggers of which no-one actually uses them on-site - they are only accessed remotely through VNC, (so, there's never any 'Fast User Switching' being done). Would this still create problems? Ben
-----Original Message----- From: B. Scott Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:35 PM To: Ben Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: "The connection closed unexpectedly" Unfortunately, VNC stops working as soon as they use it. If you switch it off, VNC will work again. With XP becoming the larger share of PC's out there, this is now the #2 issue on this list behind router configuration... Ben wrote: They've all been kept at default settings, which does appear to have 'Fast User Switching' selected. Should this be switched off? Ben -----Original Message----- From: B. Scott Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 January 2006 12:22 PM To: Ben Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: "The connection closed unexpectedly" Are they using Fast User Switching? Ben wrote: Hi all I'm having some problems logging into several remote systems. Each PC is running Windows XP (home 5.1), and the Windows Firewall has been configured to accept connections through port 5900 for VNC. The router has also been set to port forward 5900 to the local IP of the PC. In general, I have had very little problems accessing these systems through VNC over the last six months. However, occasionally just after a re-boot, I am given the usual password login interface but then an error message pops up without letting me in ("The connection closed unexpectedly"). This has happened to a number of systems in the last few days. Logging into the router, I can see that the local IP of the PC hasn't changed, and the PC is obviously still switched on (otherwise I would not have received the VNC login interface). A hard boot seems to fix the problem, but this is can be difficult to acheive at some locations as they are located in remote locations. I'm not sure why this problem only seems to happen intermittently, but if anyone has any suggestions I'd be most grateful. Perhaps it's a startup issue on the PC - but I do find this hard to believe that it'd happen at such a large number of locations (especially when remaining systems still work fine). Kind regards Ben _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list __________ NOD32 1.1380 (20060125) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com __________ NOD32 1.1380 (20060125) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
