bill payers wrote:
> After much confusion (on my part) and various NAT Router port forwarding
> changes, tweaks to my firewall settings across 3 machines etc.,etc. I
> finally managed to get RealVNC to work on all three of my PC's on my LAN.
>
> My current network looks like this:
>
> Internet --->Cable Modem-->LinkSys Router--->PC 1 (running Windows Vista32
> Home) - Running Viewer
> |__ PC 2
> (running Win2K Pro) - Running VNC Server
> |__PC 3
> (running WinXP Pro) - Running VNC Server
> |__ PC 4
> (running UBUNTU Linux)
>
> My original idea was to monitor my son's machine (PC3) and monitor and
> manage both my son's and my wife's machines (PC3 and PC2 respectively)
>
> I'm not exactly sure how many steps I had to go through to get these
> machines to talk to each other via the VNC Viewer but eventually I had to
> select the "No Authentification" options to get PC3 to allow PC1 access.
> Everything I attempted via secure means failed.
>
One big trap that most new users fall into is the confusion between
"User mode" VNC server and "Service mode" VNC server. They would set
password in one mode and launch the server in another mode and thus
thought the server's not accepting password. The only solution to this
is "pay attention to what we read".
> My question though is regarding a strange anomoly I noticed when my son
> plays video on his WinXP machine. He is using Windows Media Player to play
> movies and when I monitor his machine with the VNC Viewer via my Windows
> Vista machine, his video is upside down in the player. Not the player
> itself, just the video. This is really weird to see. Does anyone know
> -why- this is occuring and if there is a fix at the Viewer's end or the
> server end to allow the Viewer to see the video right-side-up?
>
Personally, I've never managed to get video. I always get a black
area instead of the video, but I don't care much. You have to know that
VNC wasn't designed to serve video on the net.
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