Jim Milard posted a few msgs back on this topic a way to remove the VNC icon
from NT machines. I'm not totally certain if it would work for 95.
Personally, I don't see why you'd want it to not show up because what if you
need to make changes? If you don't have the icon in the systray, and you
don't have the programs on the start menu, then it's off to browsing for the
files...no fun. I'm all for the easy and lazy, yet most secure way of
operating. If I have to putz around at a machine for 20 mins to make a
change...well.. y'know :) But if that's how it needs to be done at your
place, maybe you can change the icon to be something not so conspicuous, or
have a programmer buddy modify the source to not use the systray for those
pesky win9x clients.
If you want, send me a mail, and I'll tell you in long, boring detail how I
set up VNC for my network at work so users couldn't exit VNC, or change
properties. (not quite stealth, but good enough)
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Dan Frantz, CNA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Campbell
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 11:19 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: HELP me please, vnc on windows nt but the users always
> close the vnc client
>
>
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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