Yeah, I've tried the keyboard tap-dance at the viewer end first (it's a good 10 meters to the server room, so I try to avoid the walk) but to no avail.
I remain suspicious of the KVM box, but the problem doesn't happen often enough to provide a good environment for experimentation and diagnosis and cycling power on the KVM box loses the mouse 'til the next boot of all the machines on it, so I try to avoid that too. The KVM box switches three NT 4.0 servers and a DOS-based print formatting server (blush). ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Brodbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:13 PM Subject: RE: NT Login not taking keystrokes over VNC > Did you ever try tapping those keys on the viewer end, instead of walking > down to the server room to do it? It is a known problem...sometimes a > key-down event gets sent, and the key-up event gets lost. (I've seen some > versions of windows do this *at the console*, without VNC loaded, before, so > it may not even be entirely a VNC bug.) > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Roland Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 5:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: NT Login not taking keystrokes over VNC > > > I don't have a solution for you, but I have observed the same phenomenon. I > have convinced myself that it has something to do with the server machine > "thinking" that the CTRL or ALT or SHIFT key is being held down. I've > speculated that the KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) switch I have connected had > something to contribute to it. > > When it has happened to me, I've walked down the hall to the server room, > tapped these keys (left and right) then walked back to my office to find > that I now can use the viewer keyboard. I also have some vague recollection > of starting and restarting the VNC Server service clearing the problem, but > I am less sure of this one. > > Cheers > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 4:28 PM > Subject: NT Login not taking keystrokes over VNC > > > > Intermittently I'm unable to type password in NT login over VNC. once I'm > > past the login all keyboard strokes work (I can paste the PW in) . I don't > > know what triggers it but it usually starts when the server hasn't been > > rebooted for a week or two, > > rebooting the server fixes the problem (for some time at least). > > Currently I have six servers with the problem ranging from NT 4 to server > > 2000. > > Does anyone know how to fix it? > > > > Thanks > > - David > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
