2 of the servers are nt4 and 1 is w2k. My workstation is w2k
professional. I have tried changing one of the servers to a higher and
lower resolution but still can't connect (but oddly enough it prompts
for the password). I have also chnanged my display to higher and lower
resolution and screen sizes. I also tried connecting to another server
(successful) and ran vncviewer from there, same thing. Oddly enough, I
can still connect to some of my other servers.
Everything was working fine, never had any problems until recently. I
am looking to what has changed. I am now running w2k (but have been for
2 1/2 weeks). I changed internet access from using Wingate to a Linksys
Cable/DSL router (again over 2 weeks ago). I installed pcAnywhere 9.2
last week. Last week is when the problem started. I also get a message
during boot-up that aw_host.sys is have compatibility problems with my
video driver and cannot run in acelerated mode so its changing to
compatibility mode.
-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Gimbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 4:39 PM
To: Janice Adams
Subject: RE: can no longer use vnc on some servers
Yes, I mean the video settings on the system running VNC Server, not
your
desktop. From your message, I assumed the OS on the system running the
VNC
server was W2K. Something about the Windows 2000 VGA and WinVNC Server
just don't quite mesh. Is this right?
I have WinVNC server running on 5 NT 4.0 boxes and 2 Windows 2000 Server
boxes. My system OS is Windows 2000 Professional. The only problems I
have had connecting from my machine to my servers has been with the 2K
boxes and that was fixed by the instructions I sent you. I'm also
running
WinVNC 3.3.3r7.
Is your problem different?
At 04:08 PM 3/12/2001, you wrote:
>Thanks but I'm not sure I understand... Are you talking about vnc
>defaults or Windows display settings? I tried resetting the display
>settings to 16 bit color and 800x600 and higher and still can't
connect.
>If you mean vnc settings, where are these? I never had this problem
>until I upgraded my desktop to Windows 2000. But when connecting to
>these servers from anywhere it doesn't work anymore. I get prompted
for
>the password and then nothing happens.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shawn Gimbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 1:58 PM
>To: Janice Adams
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: can no longer use vnc on some servers
>
>
>Janice,
>
>I have run into this same problem. Only when I disconnected from the
>server the first time, my screen colors and resolution would reset to
>VGA. Then I couldn't reconnect until I changed them back on the server
>to
>the defaults I had set (16 bit color, 800x600). This is how I fixed
it.
>
>While logged into the server as Administrator, set the default
password.
>
>Make sure that your desktop settings for the screen resolution are set
>16
>bit color (try 256 colors and see if it will work) and any resolution
>higher than 640x480. There is a problem with VNC and the Windows 2000
>VGA
>driver/settings.
>
>I have also set the following registry values. The first set of values
>has
>to do with resetting the screen resolutions when the client contacts
the
>
>server. I haven't experimented with them enough yet to turn them on.
>The
>second set locks out the user from shutting down or looking at/changing
>the
>properties of the VNC Server.
>
>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ORL\WinVNC3]
>"DisableWallpaper"="No"
>"DisablePattern"="No"
>"DisableFontSmoothing"="No"
>"ResWidth"="0"
>"ResHeight"="0"
>
>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\Default]
>"AllowShutdown"=dword:00000000
>"AllowProperties"=dword:00000000
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>At 11:12 AM 3/12/2001, you wrote:
> >Over the past few weeks, I can no longer open vnc sessions to some
> >servers (but not all). It seems I connect since I am prompted for a
> >password but the screen never opens. My OS is Windows 2000... I open
> >task manager and find many instances of vncviewer running (from my
> >repeated attempts) and end these tasks. I have gotten one error a
> >couple of times when doing this that says ReadExact: Socket error
while
> >reading. Does anyone know what could be wrong or how to resolve
this?
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