The big problems in updates you covered. Seems interesting that ZoneAlarm chokes things down. I suspect that is then an issue for *all* sorts of things interacting with ZoneAlarm, so it may be worth a driveby to their knowledgebase for ways to clean things up.
There's another option you might try, too. If he has multiple PCs on his LAN, isn't he doing some kind of NAT? If so, you might be able to ditch Zone Alarm if you have no other ports being forwarded to guard, and then when he needs VNC support, start your viewer in listen mode and have him connect his server to you. I've never tried that method with VNC, but it may be worth a shot. Just for the record, I think the only value of most software firewalls is that they convince you to get a hardware firewall... But then again, everyone's budget doesn't run that way. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday/2002 February 01 14:55 Subject: Re: Win 98/95 setup - slow access : At 06:51 PM 02/01/2002 +0000, you wrote: : >I have found that zonealarm is the culprit. : > : >Try shutting down zonealarm, starting the viewer then restart zonealarm. : >Zonealarm will then work with everything else and you will find that (for : >some reason) VNC doesn't go through it. : > : >Hope this helps. : > : >Regards. : >Dave Colliver. : : Now that's what I call service! ;-) 5 replies in an hour and all helpful! : ;-) Thanks Dave, I did try taking ZoneAlarm out of the loop and, although : it didn't like it the first couple of times, eventually got VNC to work : outside the ZA envelope. You're right, an enormous difference. Only problem : now is how do I implement security at his end 'cos he's pretty : non-technical. Still, he is behind the router so that may have to do for : now while I think about it. Thanks for the pointer, I think this was : probably the major blockage judging by performance now. : : Alex, Joe and Jerry I take your points too and will try to fine tune it for : best possible performance by trying them out. Alex I've updated his : machine with the DUN 1.3, Winsock2 and DUN/Winsock Y2K upgrades off the MS : site. As far as I know that's all there is but maybe there's something I'm : missing? : : Thanks again guys. I get to keep what's left of my hair ;-) : : Mick : --------------------------------------------------------------------- : 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
