Joe, glad to hear you are up and running.  My comments are interspersed.

At 4/26/2002 Friday 11:10 AM, you wrote:

>I had to add the DWORD value "AllowLoopback=1" to the
>"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WINVNC3" key on both
>the client and server computers.  No where in the
>documentation did it state the loop-back needed
>to be enabled on both systems.

But it does make sense.  You are running SSH at both ends.  VNC needs to 
loop back to use SSH--at both ends.

>It would be helpful if all the default "Advanced
>Options" DWORD values were added to 
>"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WINVNC3" registry
>key when you run "Install Default Registry Settings"
>under the "Administrator Tools" menu.
>Running this command only installs the VNCHOOKS in the
>"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\VNCHooks\Application_
>Prefs" of the registry.

Perhaps the name is misleading and should be changed to "Install Default 
Hook Registry Settings"?

>Currently, if anyone wants to change the default
>Advance options, they have to manually add and modify
>the DWORD in the registry. It would be much easier to
>have all DWORD values in place and just modify the
>value of the DWORD that needed to be changed.

But not everyone who needs the hooks needs the loopback.  Running "Install 
Default Registry Settings" simply opens "C:\Program 
Files\VNC\VNCHooks_Settings.reg" (or equivalent).

What about adding to the distribution (and installation) an 
additional  "Install LoopBack Registry Settings" that would open 
"C:\Program Files\VNC\VNCLoopBack_Settings.reg" containing

      REGEDIT4

      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3]
      "AllowLoopback"=dword:00000001

      [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\Default]
      "AllowLoopback"=dword:00000001

(I think this is correct, but--caveat emptor--better double check.)

Actually, a small suite of options based on different *.reg files could be 
added to the distro/install.

Best regards,
-- 
Chris Johansen
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