Yes. Some people have company policies that require them to notify users
before taking over their machines. Popping up a dialog box takes care of
that, but in some cases you want the connection to go through if there's no
one there to bother -- if it's intended more as a matter of courtesy than of
security.
-----Original Message-----
From: James ''Wez'' Weatherall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 11:30 AM
To: David Brodbeck; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: vnc-list-digest V1 #1273
> I think the difference is in AT&T VNC, ? will only *reject* the connection
> if the user doesn't respond. TridiaVNC will let you configure it to
either
> accept or reject.
Aha. Yes, that is a difference. It's difficult to see why the feature is
useful. Do people use it for administrative support stuff or something?
Cheers,
---
James "Wez" Weatherall
"The path to enlightenment is /usr/bin/enlightenment"
Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge - Tel : 766513
AT&T Labs Cambridge, UK - Tel : 343000
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