Ah, I didn't notice any of the Zonealarm documentation! I've never had a BSOD caused by it but now I have switched Zonealarm off it seems to be working fine. Thankyou very much for your help Richard. Does anyone know why Zonealarm does this?
Glyn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Clegg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:23 AM Subject: RE: VNC connection dies > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
