Re: Idea to save bandwidth: Don't update screen

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Milette
Although I can appreciate your suggestion, I often have VNC running watching and waiting for something to happen on the remote screen to let me know that a task has completed. During this time, there is typically no mouse or keyboard activity. With your suggestion, I would never find out that a

Idea to save bandwidth: Don't update screen

2003-01-14 Thread Shing-Fat Fred Ma
Here in Canada, many high-speed service providers are putting a monthly quota on the number of bits you can download before they charge you extra. They refer to the quota as "bandwidth" (bits per month). People who are likely to use VNC and its variants are often not the same people who download

Re: The old xauth beast again - Slackware

2003-01-14 Thread William Hooper
- Original Message - From: "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all! > I've RTFM'd...believe me, I've been reading posts for 2 days now on the > xauth issue. > The trouble is (AFAIK) no one has actually answered the question in > layman's terms: > > "I try to start vncserver and get

Re: Request for Assistance on xstartup

2003-01-14 Thread William Hooper
- Original Message - From: "John Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > xstartup looks like this > > [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources > xsetroot -solid grey > > xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & > twm & > > I used to run Redhat 7.2 and VNC Server ra

RE: ssh tunnel problem

2003-01-14 Thread Polak, Jon
My access problem is resolved - Many thanks to William Hooper In summary, the correct solution is to restrict the Xvnc -inetd access using the tcpd wrapper program in the /etc/inetd.conf with correctly configured hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. The -localhost option doesn't control this when us

Re: The old xauth beast again - Slackware

2003-01-14 Thread Sean McAvoy
Hello, It's looking for the `xauth` program. My Debian tells me xauth is part of the xbase-clients package there must be some similar package for slackware. install that package, then try again. -Sean On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 16:49, Colin J. Raven wrote: > Hi all! > I've RTFM'd...believe me, I'

The old xauth beast again - Slackware

2003-01-14 Thread Colin J. Raven
Hi all! I've RTFM'd...believe me, I've been reading posts for 2 days now on the xauth issue. The trouble is (AFAIK) no one has actually answered the question in layman's terms: "I try to start vncserver and get the error message; vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH." Now I read through

RE: ssh tunnel problem

2003-01-14 Thread William Hooper
> -Original Message- > From: Polak, Jon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > William > > Thanks for the quick reply. > > I'm not sure I follow what you mean when you say... > > >Why not use the inetd functionality to only allow localhost > to connect (as > >suggested at http://www.dei.isep

RE: ssh tunnel problem

2003-01-14 Thread William Hooper
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Polak, Jon > A question for the experts > > I have successfully set up the ssh tunnel to my Xvnc server > using plink as > follows: > > C:\Program Files\putty\plink.exe -ssh2 -C xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

RE: How can I get Xvnc to write a log ?

2003-01-14 Thread William Hooper
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I have been having problems using Xvnc and the entry in the > /var/log/messages > is not helping at all. I was wondering if there is a way to > have Xvnc give me > some use

RE: Multiple connections

2003-01-14 Thread Taylor Cassidy
>From the server's end you can set ... ConnectPriority By default, all WinVNC servers will disconnect any existing connections when an incoming, non-shared connection is authenticated. This behaviour is undesirable when the server machine is being used as a shared workstation by several users or

ssh tunnel problem

2003-01-14 Thread Polak, Jon
A question for the experts I have successfully set up the ssh tunnel to my Xvnc server using plink as follows: C:\Program Files\putty\plink.exe -ssh2 -C xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -L 5901:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5901 Xvnc is configured to reply in inetd mode using this inetd.conf entry: vnc-med stream tcp now

Re: Multiple connections

2003-01-14 Thread Michael Roland
Hallo! Is it possible to allow 2 people to be connected to the same pc at the same time? If you read the documentation you would know that this is possible by using the -shared option. For Windows Viewer: http://www.realvnc.com/winvncviewer.html For X Viewer: http://www.realvnc.com/man/vncvie

RE: VNC access using D-link router (server not found)

2003-01-14 Thread Veen Mudi
Thank you for your response. I will check my router manual to see if it is doing anything fishy. One other thing I forgot to mention is that when I go to www.gotomyvnc.com, it says that my computer 65.68.xxx.xxx is ready to accept connections on Display 0, which makes me think that my router is

Multiple connections

2003-01-14 Thread Scott Krall
Pardon me as I'm sure this has come up numerous times, but I'm a newbie here. Is it possible to allow 2 people to be connected to the same pc at the same time? ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list

RE: VNC over SSH

2003-01-14 Thread William Hooper
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Terence Van Hise > Hmm...must be doing something wrong. I have TightVNC > installed on a windows > machine, ip 192.168.1.102. I have OpenSSH running on linux > machine, ip > 192.168.1.75. I have p

Request for Assistance on xstartup

2003-01-14 Thread John Harper
xstartup looks like this [ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & twm & I used to run Redhat 7.2 and VNC Server ran beautifully on it. I had no issues getting my gnome desktop through it. I never h

How can I get Xvnc to write a log ?

2003-01-14 Thread gfgforex
I have been having problems using Xvnc and the entry in the /var/log/messages is not helping at all. I was wondering if there is a way to have Xvnc give me some useful information about the error. ___ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.re

Re: java vncviewer with RFB over HTTP support

2003-01-14 Thread Jim Redman
Chris, No, I haven't patched it. The changes in the Java code are small (about 4 lines - the source is in the jar) so it should be easy. I just haven't had a chance. I'll try and get to it if there's enough interest. Jim > Hello Chris: > > I've found the original posting in my e-mail of Septe

RE: Problems running vncserver on Solaris 2.5

2003-01-14 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: Firstname Lastname [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I'm able to run vncserver on my solaris machine and run a viewer > on my windows NT machine and see a simple X desktop environment. > But, I would like to be able to see my CDE environment and can't > figure out wh

RE: [Feature] Using MS Windows as window manager

2003-01-14 Thread "Beerse, Corné"
> -Original Message- > From: Don Geddis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Greg Breland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > just start your application with a -geometry switch set to > the resolution you > > are running your vncserver at. When you connect to the > vncserver it will > > appear t