It's well documented that if you run ZoneAlarm on a W2K machine, then this can cause blue screen of death (which is incredibly annoying when you remote to it). There seems to be no cure for it, but I've not had your problem yet.
I would suggest (just as a trial to be absolutely sure) disabling ZoneAlarm and trying Tiny, or one of the other pieces of firewall software. I'm only making a link to the firewall software on this as the ZoneAlarm/VNC problem has a behaviour where it works fine initially, but as time goes on, then the blue screen of death kicks in. It may be you're having a variation of the same thing (although far less severe) because you're using the same key components i.e. W2K, ZoneAlarm and obviously VNC. If that makes no change, they I would suggest trying a different distribution, to try to rule out the one you're using. After that, get back to me with the results, and I'll see what I can think of next. Rich Helpdesk Operator PCG Systems -----Original Message----- From: Glyn Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 February 2002 23:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VNC connection dies Hi, I am running VNC as a service on a Win2K machine and have a problem. Whenever I connect to it using Vncviewer from either a remote computer or on a loopback connection the window opens and displays my desktop as it should. Then for a period of between a second and perhaps 30s VNC works perfectly. Then the vncviewer window will close with no error and I will ahve to log back on. If I use a web browser it shuts down with 'java.net.SocketException: Socket read failed' on the loopback connection and says something like 'RFB -1' on the remote connection. The same happens when running VNC in app mode and when I use a remote computer the screen resoution is the same on both machines. Has anyone else come across this? If not can anyone suggest a way to find out what is causing it. I have run VNC on a previous installation of Win2K with no problems also I use Zonealarm as a firewall but this seems to have no effect Can anyone help? Regards Glyn Edwards --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
