I installed VNC Free Server on my new desktop recently. I had been using it successfully on my previous box with no issues. But on this new box, it's being quite grumpy.
Here's the issue: the damn thing is arbitrarily not letting me connect when I am outside my local network. Yesterday, it would. Today, it won't. Nothing has changed, except maybe the IP at work. But here's the thing: I want VNC wide open. Yes, I know it's bad. I don't want a lecture. I just want to connect to my computer remotely. By default, the software ships out with a setting on the tab where you set the restrictions (in Windows) of "+" - that's it. If you delete that line in the process of troubleshooting other issues... well, you're screwed. Why's that? Because there's no way to get that line back. You can click add and then click OK without typing anything - it puts "+255.255.255.255/0.0.0.0" in there, which I would think is roughly equivalent, yeah? But here I am today, unable to connect with it set to that, yet yesterday I was connecting fine. Hey, it's a Windows app, right? Uninstall/reinstall, right? Nope. Somehow, it retains the setting. The directory gets wiped, there's no registry settings, and yet... somehow VNC knows that you mucked up that setting once, and you are forever screwed at getting it set back to the default. Oh, you have to set the password on each reinstall, but the IP restriction list is forever broken. There is no settings file in the program directory. I have scoured the registry for a setting. Nothing. Sure, I can go home and put the IP block for work in there and be good, but then I go to a coffeehouse with a different IP block and... I'm locked out again. Somebody help, I'm tearing my hair out. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
