Uhoh.... I forgot you are most likely using a Mac.
Anyone else able to shed some light on what's in vogue for Mac telnet clients? My last use of telnet from a Mac was NCSA's telnet client back in 1994. Claus, it shouldn't matter who you are logged on as. Telnet is much more than ping - technically it's a command line remote control tool, which can be used to connect from any MS-Win/Unix/Mac/BeOS etc system to any other system running a telnet server; we don't care about that right now though, so you can forget this entire paragraph if you want... Telnet can be used analogously to "ping"; the nice thing about it is that you can "talk" to a specific port on the remote system and it will send back any response the system makes. Do you have access to another Windows or a Unix/Linux system there? It can be done easily from one of those platforms. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rothweiler, Claus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2002-03-22 09:25 Subject: AW: VNC on NT4-Server with Mac client : Dear Alex, : sorry for the question (my world is the mac side), but "telnet to port 5900" : gives me some headache... Is there a tool for telnet (is it similar to : "ping"?) and does it matter if I am logged in as admin or as user? : Thanks for your help and : best regards : Claus : : : It sounds like the VNC service may have crashed or hung. : : Assuming you are running the server on the default port, you can try a : telnet to port 5900 just to see if it echoes back the RFB protocol number. : If it times out, you can't access the server; if it refuses connection, the : service is no longer running. If it does echo back a string such as RFB : 003.003, then the problem is most likely in the VNCViewer client software. : : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "Rothweiler, Claus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Sent: Friday, 2002-03-22 08:54 : Subject: VNC on NT4-Server with Mac client : : : : Dear VNC list, : : : : as a new vnc-user I have the following problem: : : I want to use a NT4-Server without monitor and keyboard as Mac Fileserver. : In : : fact the only task would be to shutdown the machine remotely. VNC : installation : : on Mac was no problem. On the server I first got the message "The SCM : could : : not be contacted - the WinVNC service was not installed" while not beeing : : logged in as admin. It worked as admin and I run VNC as service as : : recommended. Now the problem is, that I get the error "The server could : not be : : found. This may be because the server is not running, or because the : adress of : : the server was incorrect.", after a long period of waiting, when I try to : : connect from the Mac's viewer. The IP adres is correct, VNCserver is : running : : an even a volume of the NT machine is mounted on the Mac's desktop, so : there : : should be no physical problem in the network. The Mac runs with OS 9.1. : What : : could be wrong? Any advice? : : : : Best regards : : : : Claus Rothweiler : : --------------------------------------------------------------------- : : 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
