Dan,
I'm looking for a way to run VNC in stealth mode so it doesn't appear on the
SysTray.
I'd rather not turn off the entire system tray. Is that possible?
We are in an all Windows environment (win 95 clients and Win NT servers)
Joe Campbell
Express-1, Inc.
Buchanan, Michigan 49107
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From: Dan Frantz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 3:06 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: HELP me please, vnc on windows nt but the users always
close the vnc client
Hey, what I did was a little in depth, but then again, I kind of taylor-fit
VNC to my needs. I work for a call center, and the supervisors wanted visual
monitoring capabilities. I proposed VNC, and they loved it. It had 3
problems though:
1) no simple way to disable password checking (without a dialog box warning
msg)
2) Users could exit VNC and/or kill all connected clients, mess
w/properties, etc
3) tray icon changed colours when people connected.
It was a bit tricky, but I got all three "problems" fixed.
1) Set "AuthRequired" to 0 so no password was necessary
2) A little more difficult, but I had first set it so no one could change
properties, then I made some registry changes using "AllowProperties" and
"AllowShutdown". Then I wised up, and discovered I can set it for certain
users to have access to shutting down and changing properties by specifying
them in the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\<username>] key. (I set
the whole IT dept up to be able to shutdown/change properties)
3) a bit more involved, but while editing the source so the silly "warning,
password blank, blah blah blah" warning dialog box didn't pop-up (it's
nested in an "if,then,else" statement...just remove the "else" part and it
compiles fine)I also changed the tray icon to be white at all times
(replaced the black/green icon with a copy of the normal icon)
Yeah, a bit more difficult and drawn out then what Jason Powell suggested,
but I wanted to keep the tray icon so I could quickly see who had VNC and
who did not :) If you want a copy of the regkeys I used, email me back
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Dan Frantz, CNA
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