Francois, As a rule of thumb, it's inadvisable to use port numbers normally assigned to other applications and protocols. Firstly, this leads to confusion but more directly, it can lead to difficult-to-diagnose failure modes if you have intrusive firewalling or virus-scanning software installed, since many such utilities will filter the VNC traffic on the non-standard port incorrectly, expecting it to be web or email traffic.
Thanks, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 January 2007 19:13 > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com > Subject: Read: connection aborted (10053) > > hello Mick > > Thank you very much for your long documented message; let me > try to move the > subject forward again. > > I would like to start by saying that my testing capabilities > are not that great > since I can't really count on my 88 year old mother (the VNC > Server micro) to > help me out; things tend to take more time than I would like. > > Port: OK, I will return to the standard VNC port number, to > flatten this out. > For the record, the port I was using was 993 (SSL encrypted IMAP). > > Restart every hour: two things: > - there is a VNC Server option which says "Disconnect idle > clients after" and is > = 3600 seconds by default > I trusted that a VNC connexion would break after that delay > if unused, which is > the reason why I moved to restarting the Server every hour > - this hourly restart, at the time, is pretty useful to me > since the connexion > usually breaks down after a little while > > Rewarding: Yes, you are right? I will certainly go for a > donation but would like > that the whole thing would work before doing so. > > I will not do more testing for few weeks since my mother will > be away; sorry for > that. > > Thanks again for your help. > > Francois > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
