Re: Best Version

2002-09-10 Thread Graham Harris
Hello =)avid, Tuesday, September 10, 2002, 10:34:42 PM, you wrote: aML> Hey list, Really Dumb Question Alert, but here goes... aML> What is the best version (free) of vnc that avoids you having to request aML> screen refreshes or draging your mice all over the place to see whats really aML> th

Re[2]: Minimun Screen Res

2002-09-10 Thread Graham Harris
Hello jb, Tuesday, September 10, 2002, 1:09:18 PM, you wrote: jed> I have an odd feeling that the 640x480 at 16 part is only running on Win nt jed> servers, W2K servers needs the 800x600 at 256 jed> just my 2 cents, havent tested it, but it would sure make a lot of sense in jed> my case. I

Best Version

2002-09-10 Thread =\)avid M. Leek
Hey list, Really Dumb Question Alert, but here goes... What is the best version (free) of vnc that avoids you having to request screen refreshes or draging your mice all over the place to see whats really there? (o yeah, and were do you get it?)) Very Best Fishes, =)avid M. Leek _

RE: How to get a Windows viewer to pass Alt-TAB through to a UNIX server?

2002-09-10 Thread Jacob Hoover
It would be cumbersome, but you can use the viewer's menu to send "Alt Down" then press Tab key then select "Alt Up". Jake Hoover -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Francis Litterio Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTEC

VNC and application control

2002-09-10 Thread Sanjoy Sen
Does VNC provide any hooks for the clients to share the same application? That is, is it possible for multiple clients to log on to the same desktop and work on the same application. Has there been any extension work on VNC? -Sanjoy > -Original Message- > From: "Beerse, Corni" [mailto:[E

RE: Problem with vnc in inetd mode

2002-09-10 Thread Lee Allen
The problem seems to be gone in TightVNC 1.2.6. Or rather, it seems to be reduced to the point it's no longer a problem. Every 5th or 10th connection attempt fails, but the very next attempt succeeds. The prior situation was, all subsequent attempts failed, for approximately a minute. Thanks f

Re: VNC viewer for Nokia phones

2002-09-10 Thread Per Andersson
Imagine running a 1600x1200 desktop on a, what, a 150x100 pixel screen over a slow GSM connection... :-) Nevertheless, it would be kind of cool! /Per > Hi, VNC fans. > > I believe PC Anywhere, Terminal Services or other remote desktop control > competitors to VNC do not have a client for mobil

RE: Problem with vnc in inetd mode

2002-09-10 Thread Lee Allen
> > A problem looks like this: > > > > Sep 9 15:18:41 netfinity inetd: launching: 5900 > > Sep 9 15:18:41 netfinity inetd: accept: new socket 3 > > Sep 9 15:18:41 netfinity inetd: pid 24626: exec /usr/local/bin/Xvnc > > Sep 9 15:18:41 netfinity inetd: uid: 507 gid: 103 > > Sep 9 15:18:41 n

RE: Problem with vnc in inetd mode

2002-09-10 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: Lee Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Have you checked the inetd log? Might need to turn it on or such. > > Yes. When I run inetd in debug mode, a good connect & > disconnect looks > like this: > > Sep 9 15:18:25 netfinity inetd: launching: 5900 > Sep

Re: windows enryption?

2002-09-10 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Charles, TridiaVNC Pro supports strong encryption on Win32, (among other things): http://www.TridiaVNCPro.com/ Brian > Message: 27 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: windows enryption? > Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 18:52:55 -0400 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > is there

RE: Problem with vnc in inetd mode

2002-09-10 Thread Lee Allen
> Have you checked the inetd log? Might need to turn it on or such. Yes. When I run inetd in debug mode, a good connect & disconnect looks like this: Sep 9 15:18:25 netfinity inetd: launching: 5900 Sep 9 15:18:25 netfinity inetd: accept: new socket 3 Sep 9 15:18:25 netfinity inetd: pid 24605

VNC viewer for Nokia phones

2002-09-10 Thread LUPTAK,MIROSLAV (HP-Slovakia,ex1)
Hi, VNC fans. I believe PC Anywhere, Terminal Services or other remote desktop control competitors to VNC do not have a client for mobile phones. VNC does :-) See http://www.softwaremarket.nokia.com/DRHM/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=Di splayProductDetailsPage&SiteID=nokia&Locale=en_US&product

Re: Accessing the rfb Buffer

2002-09-10 Thread Grant McDorman
Depends on what you want to do. If you want to read the framebuffer, then Xvfb may be a better route - it can put the virtual display in a shared memory segment or memory mapped file; see the Xvfb manual page for details. However, it is nearly impossible to interact with Xvfb (perhaps x0frb might

Re: FAQ question 22 ("Can I remote the normal X display...")

2002-09-10 Thread pellios
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 12:25:19PM +0200, "Beerse, Corni" wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > In the answer to Q22 in the FAQ ("Can I remote the normal X display of > > my workstation (display :0) in the same way as the Windows server >

Explorer exe won't shut down.

2002-09-10 Thread John Jones
I have VNC running as a service on a machine running windows XP. Whenever I try to shut down the machine or to log offI get a message saying thet Explorer.exe is busy and to wait. I then have to shut it down manually. Why is this and how can I stop it? TIA. -

RE: Problem with vnc in inetd mode

2002-09-10 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: Lee Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Are you sure you are running in inetd mode? As far as I know > > inetd, the communication is not on the requested port. IF the > > connection goes away by itself in a reasonable time (up to > > several minutes) then y

How to get a Windows viewer to pass Alt-TAB through to a UNIX server?

2002-09-10 Thread Francis Litterio
Is there any way to make a Windows VNC viewer pass Alt-TAB through to a UNIX VNC server? I can't find anything on this in the FAQ. -- Fran Litterio ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

RE : Deploying VNC to Win2k and XP remotely

2002-09-10 Thread John Ferrell
>rem Install the service >C:\Progra~1\ORL\VNC\WinVNC.exe -install - and users can't install or start/stop services. Because of the nature of our environment, all users are local admins so it worked fine for me. This script could be modified to run winvnc.exe - install as admin (I think, it work

RE: Problem with vnc in inetd mode

2002-09-10 Thread Lee Allen
> Are you sure you are running in inetd mode? As far as I know > inetd, the communication is not on the requested port. IF the > connection goes away by itself in a reasonable time (up to > several minutes) then you are just waiting for an other > session to be setup. I am definitely using in

Re: Help: Gray screen with win2k (vncviewer question)

2002-09-10 Thread Richard Harris
Hiya, > I have recently upgraded my computer to windows 2000 professional from > windows 98 (in fact reformatted the disk and installed from scratch). > After that VNC stopped working for me. It comes-up with a gray screen > with a message "Please wait - initial screen loading" and doesn't go > f

RE: Minimun Screen Res

2002-09-10 Thread jb
I have an odd feeling that the 640x480 at 16 part is only running on Win nt servers, W2K servers needs the 800x600 at 256 just my 2 cents, havent tested it, but it would sure make a lot of sense in my case. - Jesper At 16:18 09-09-2002 -0700, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Ha

Re: Queries

2002-09-10 Thread Rodrigo Diel
Please remove my name ... - Original Message - From: "Basheer Ul-haq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 3:54 AM Subject: Queries > Hi There, > > What are the Hardware and software requirements to run VNC? > Can this product support o

stop running, it disappears in the system-tray; but it was still resident in memory en keep listening on port 5900

2002-09-10 Thread Noel Cabuy
Hello My work platform is "Windows 98 SP2" on a "Pentium 233 Mhz" Q 1 === I have downloaded the - for Windows 95/98 "VNC program" for remote PC controlling. The install procedure was okay. Is there a way to test the "WinVNC.exe server" from out the same computer? Q 2 === "WinVNC.exe" display

Help: Gray screen with win2k (vncviewer question)

2002-09-10 Thread Raghuram Tupuri
Hi: I have recently upgraded my computer to windows 2000 professional from windows 98 (in fact reformatted the disk and installed from scratch). After that VNC stopped working for me. It comes-up with a gray screen with a message "Please wait - initial screen loading" and doesn't go forward from

Queries

2002-09-10 Thread Basheer Ul-haq
Hi There, What are the Hardware and software requirements to run VNC? Can this product support other devices, e.g. PDA's, peripherals? Regards, Basheer ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mai

Tight VNC and proxy

2002-09-10 Thread Ronald Wiplinger
I have a server at the front and behind some machines. I use with AT&T VNC very easy to vnc to the server and from there with vncviewer to the internal machines. I would like to speed up TightVNC, but it does not allow me to login and than start vncviewer. Does anybody know if I can get this

RE: Port 5900 BLocked

2002-09-10 Thread Shola . Ogunlokun
What makes you think port 5900 is blocked? What is the display no on the vnc server? The port to connect to is 5900+n where n is the display number up to 99. Can you ping the VNCServer from the client that you are trying to connect from? Thanks Shola Ogunlokun -Original Message- Fr

RE : Deploying VNC to Win2k and XP remotely

2002-09-10 Thread Richard Harris
Hi, > I'm interested to know if this kind of script can work on W2K As far as I know, it won't because the script has this line - >rem Install the service >C:\Progra~1\ORL\VNC\WinVNC.exe -install - and users can't install or start/stop services. With Windows 2k - you could get VNC on the boxe

RE: Deploying VNC to Win2k and XP remotely

2002-09-10 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: Johan Bouli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > arghhh, msdos batch files are so ugly ! You are right. Do you have a better option that works on a fresh installed M$Win machine? (that is, not having installed anything!) CBee _

RE: Problem with vnc in inetd mode

2002-09-10 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: Lee Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I have been using Xvnc for some time now, in inetd mode. It > is running > on a Linux server (RedHat 6.2). The clients are various > Windows systems > running the viewer. We primarily use TightVNC but I have tested th

RE: open which ports on the firewall or VNC

2002-09-10 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: Jomy Vellian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I have a Solaris machine running VNC server, If people need > to come in and > use vnc from outside , which ports should I open in the > firewall for this machine? What do you want... > > currently I started a

RE: Minimun Screen Res

2002-09-10 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: Graham Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Am I right in thinking that there is a minimum reselution of 800 x > 600 at 256 colours For M$Windows: its the local screen that sets the limits. I'm in the impression that the minimum color depth that is transmit

RE: open which ports on the firewall or VNC

2002-09-10 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: Tariq Mahmood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Speaking of port numbers, my VNC has the display number auto > box ticked > and I can connect to it no problem but I need to connect on > port 5901 so > I untick the auto box and put 1 in it now I can't connect to

RE: VNC Java Applet over HTTPS

2002-09-10 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: David Russcol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I'm looking for a way to serve up the VNC applet via HTTPS, > such that I > could browse my desktop securely using only a java-enabled > web browser Be warned: THis only secures the transmission of the HTML page a

RE: Accessing the rfb Buffer

2002-09-10 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: Preetham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Hi All: > I have a couple of questions regarding the framebuffer. > 1. VNC uses a virtual framebuffer implementation of the Xserver. > 2. The rfbScreenInit() method initialises the vfb for the screen > 3. How can i acce