John: Sorry about the lateness of my reply, the A Cappella group I started
performed at our prom last night, and after selling CDs all night, I headed
to my friends for a post prom party (her dad makes awesome barbecue
hamburgers) and I didn't get a chance to check my mail until now. To answer
your IP question: The IP of the server machine does not matter, all that
maters is that you know that IP address. DNS should not matter. To answer
your previous Viewer question on listen mode or not: You want regular viewer
app, the listen mode would make it possible for the server machine to force
that you open up the viewer (this can be used for teaching a class with the
teacher showing his screen on all of the student computers). To explain
about ping and open share: Ping: go to a dos prompt and type "ping
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" (where xxx...etc is the IP address) this will let you know
if your computer can see the machine you want to connect to (it will also
return some connection speed info) an open share is a drive that is set up
to be shared across a network, (the purpose of me asking you if you could
ping or access an open share was to see if you were actually getting
connected to the other machines, since you now know that you are, you don't
need to worry about ping or shares). Now to address your speed question,
since you are going to be using a modem for the connection it will
inherently be somewhat slow, but still usable. To somewhat speed things up
you can try the following: Under vnc properties tell it to poll the
Foreground window, and poll console windows only (if this gives problems
with screen updating, you may need to set it to poll full screen or poll
window under cursor). Another way to increase speed: under options in the
connection box set it to restrict pixels to 8-bit. The third way to speed
things up is to set down the screen resolution on the host machine. If you
need to contact me further you can e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (replace
nospam with the word yoursker). This is my direct e-mail account that I
check most often.
P.S. It seems like you have a pretty good grasp of networks and remote
administration and that you are really close to the result that you want.
Sorry again about the lateness of my reply.
Kurt Mysker
"Philosophizing is nothing more than looking into a mirror that is looking
into another mirror, and picking the layer you like best." - Yoursker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Blaustein
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 3:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need WinVNC help in Berkeley, California
Kurt:
SUCCESS! After endless screwing around and trying everything I could think
of, I got WinVNC to work!
On the SERVER: I had to enter a password in the server properties windows.
Otherwise, everything was set to the default. I used the WinVNC App Mode,
after running the Dialup Server.
On the VIEWER: In the DUN setup I finally figured out to use the Server's
network IP address (from TCP/IP setup). I used the Computer name (under
Identification of Network Properties), followed by :0 when the Viewer asked
for the VNC Server.
As is so often the case, it turned out to be very simple. It just seemed
very
complicated at first.
I do have two questions:
1) On the PC that I will ultimately be connecting to (not used in my
current
successful test) if it does not currently have an IP address specified, what
IP address should I enter? Do I need to be concerned with any of the other
settings, like DNS?
2) WinVNC seems to run slower than I remember pcAnywhere running.
Naturally,
there a lots of things that effect speed, but I'm wondering if there are any
specific "tweaks" to help speed things up.
Thank you.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Mysker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 8:31 PM
Subject: RE: Need WinVNC help in Berkeley, California
> After you connect to the machine can you ping it, or access an open share?
>
> Kurt Mysker
> "Philosophizing is nothing more than looking into a mirror that is looking
> into another mirror, and picking the layer you like best." - Yoursker
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Blaustein
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 9:26 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Need WinVNC help in Berkeley, California
>
>
> Hello...
>
> I am trying to install and use WinVNC on two PCs running Windows 98. I'm
> afraid I'm in over my head. I simply can't get it to work.
>
> If there is anyone reading this who happens to be in Berkeley (or nearby)
> and
> would be willing to spend a few minutes on the phone helping me
walk-through
> the setup, I'd be most grateful.
>
> Otherwise, is there any documentation that shows a step-by-step setup for
> the
> Windows Server and Windows Viewer. I am trying to connect using modems
and
> dialup on both machines.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Best regards,
>
> John.
>
> John Blaustein
> TEL: 510-525-8133
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web site: www.johnblaustein.com
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