Re: How can I know the display number from the issuing vncviewer side?

2008-03-17 Thread Corné Beerse
Tom Wurgler wrote: I have a remote Linix computer setup with free realvnc 4.1.2 server to be started via -inetd. I start the free vncviewer 4.1.2 on my client system and VNC comes up on the remote and all works great. I want to write a script to drive all this and start some applications etc an

Re: VMWare problems when running VNC

2005-02-21 Thread Corné Beerse
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 06:05:48 -0800 (PST), Dani Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am accessing a Fedora Core 3 machine through VNC > 4.0-8, and I want to run VMware in the remote machine, > in VMware I have a Virtual Machine with Windows XP > installed. > > But when I start VMware through VNC I

Re: VNC server autostart?

2005-02-01 Thread Corné Beerse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi! dear all, do you know, if it is possible to transfer files via VNC ( as radmin ) ? Yes it is possible, however not usable... I have found with the unix implementation, with the web-server active: put the files (not directories) in the http directory and fetch them wit

Re: problems ....

2005-01-24 Thread Corné Beerse
descargas d wrote: Hi.. I have RealVNC viewer 4 installed on XP and RealVNC server 4 on linux Red Hat 8. i get connected to the server and the result is a black shell screen. I want to know how can i see the linux desktop.. I just can`t see it. See the faq on the website about gray (or grey?).

Re: VNC4 - different sessions, different passwords?

2005-01-11 Thread Corné Beerse
Pasztuhov Daniel wrote: Hi List, I am trying to use a VNC 4.0 on a SuSE Linux. My goal is to have many VNC sessions per user, with different passwords. Best use the inetd setup as described on http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp. Advantages: - no stale vnc-sessions occupying m

Re: Detecting usernames on active VNC ports?

2005-01-10 Thread Corné Beerse
Dan Stromberg wrote: Is there a program that can tell what usernames are on which ports of a given host? The vnc-log might show what you need. Check documentation on how to twiggle what is logged. This might show vnc-user names. On both unix and M$Windows, there is `netstat`: with `netstat -a` yo

Re: VNC + X.org works at all?

2005-01-07 Thread Corné Beerse
Dave Nebinger wrote: Before I go through the hassle of replacing x.org with xfree86, can anyone out there tell me if the vncserver/xvnc works at all with x.org? By default vnc comes with its own X11-server (it IS an X11-server: Xvnc). Hence I think you indicate the vnc-module that can hook into XF

Re: (No subject)

2004-12-22 Thread Corné Beerse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have noticed some odd behavior with realvnc and VNC and tcp-wrappers. On one machine (linux rh8) I have vnc -server-3.3.3r2-39.2 installed and on another vnc-4.0-1. VNC on the machine with version 3 seems to appropriately respect access control lists designated in hosts.

Re: Solaris inetd fails to launch Xvnc.

2004-12-13 Thread Corné Beerse
Steve Elliott wrote: I setup 6 ports on Solaris 9 to listen for vnc connections from WinXP vncviewer. vncviewer connects to the 4 of these (5962,5963,5972,5973) that have Xvnc instances specified in Xservers. vncviewer connects to the 1 of these (5978) that has Xvnc explictly launched from the c

Re: Change VNC4 Windows server password

2004-12-03 Thread Corné Beerse
Gary Roussak wrote: Is there a command-line method for changing a VNC4 server password on Windows (specifically Windows 98) ? I notice there's a separate command for setting passwords in Unix (of course!). Or is there a DLL method I can call ? Well, you know how to change it. Once you have a m

Re: Start vncviewer from command line

2004-12-03 Thread Corné Beerse
louis wrote: Hi there How can I start VNC viewer from the command line without being prompted for a password? I'm looking for something to this effect: vncviewer -p mypassword mymachine:0 Any ideas? There where lots of replies on how to make a .vnc file and how to include password information i

Re: VNC network, playing several movies synchronous

2004-12-01 Thread Corné Beerse
Martin Kellner wrote: Dear friends, I want to play 2 movies on two pcs synchronous because one isn't strong enough to handle the datastream. Is it possible remoting it with VNC and how, I'm just a newcomer? Yes it is possible, however - you cannot use display-acceleration on the vnc-server mach

Re: Workspace Manager: failed to load font:

2004-11-22 Thread Corné Beerse
Luptak, Miroslav wrote: Hello, all. I can't run dtwm under RealVNC on Solaris 8. It's giving me "Workspace Manager: failed to load font:" error in the ~/.dt/errorlog. I use the X Font Server, but it does not help. Anyone solved this problem? It's possible that Xvnc does not support the font, or can

Re: VNC won't start properly at boot.

2004-11-15 Thread Corné Beerse
Ronald Hall wrote: Thank you for your detailed message.. unfortunately it did not help. What I have been able to figure out.. this problem occurs ONLY on one specific machine.. I installed it on another desktop, and it comes up properly using the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers method.. It also doesn

Re: VNC won't start properly at boot.

2004-11-12 Thread Corné Beerse
Ronald Hall wrote: I'm ready to toss my stupid box out the window.. having a strange problem with VNC I just cannot figure out. I'm trying to get VNC to start automatically when the system comes up. I've tried to do that 2 ways.. There are more ways, and unfortunatly, your choices are not the bes

Re: Bluetooth Support Update?

2004-11-12 Thread Corné Beerse
Walt Wilson wrote: Is there an update on support for VNC over a bluetooth connection? vnc is over tcp/ip. In the iso/osi model that covers up to level 3. As far as I know, blue-tooth only coveres level 1 and/or level 2. At the verry moment you can do TCP/IP over BlueTooth, you got it. Until then,

Re: Display part of the screen

2004-11-09 Thread Corné Beerse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm using vncviewer and X11VNC. I would like to be able to display only a part of the screen (a definable area). Any one knows if this is possible (and how)? That's not possible with what you have running. However, with Xvnc, you can come fairly close: Just use an addi

Re: Connection problem using VNC Client

2004-11-09 Thread Corné Beerse
surendra jambe wrote: All: I am using VNC 4.0 server at my office workstation. At my home, I am using VNC 4.0. The vncviewer binary I hope. I can connect to VNC Server. But I do not see any desktop, it just shows me blank screen. And I can Browse through, my mouse movements are happening This

Re: Who can help me...?

2004-11-05 Thread Corné Beerse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Recently Ive installed VNC for Windows (XP). The Server runs without any problems and the VNCViewer works as well. The only thing having problems  is the Java Applett Viewer (using by Browser). I receive the following error messages: Within my local Network: http://co

Re: Quick logon using VNC/win

2004-11-05 Thread Corné Beerse
Angelo Sarto wrote: If you are on windows you can: Set up a vnc server, set the password you want, then read the obscured password out of the registry, If you are on Linux/Unix: THe password is found in ~/.vnc/password (or such). I believe the command is vncpassword Nope, that just generates a new

Re: Eureka

2004-11-05 Thread Corné Beerse
Michael Rosen wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:27:21 +0100, Corni Beerse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Rosen wrote: Wow, I finally figured out how to get the client to work at least. Since I changed ports I needed to tell the client to connect to "myhost:7900." Is that for the webserver, or the

Re: Eureka

2004-11-04 Thread Corné Beerse
Michael Rosen wrote: Wow, I finally figured out how to get the client to work at least. Since I changed ports I needed to tell the client to connect to "myhost:7900." Is that for the webserver, or the vncviewer? Still no such luck on the java side. What's odd is that it appears at first to be con

Re: Minimum hardware requirements for vnc server

2004-11-03 Thread Corné Beerse
bheemesh v wrote: Inline with my requirements, no where i clould get information about the minimal hardware requirements of VNC server, although the VNC clinets are termed as thin clients not expecting a high end hardware configurations. VNC sure does have some hardware-requirements. However, with

Re: Win XP SP2 Firewall Instructions - clarification, please

2004-11-01 Thread Corné Beerse
BPS wrote: Hi! The instructions for disabling the Win XP SP2 firewall instructions say: "4. Enter port number "5900" or whatever port you've got VNC on that PC to listen on (port number = 5900 + "VNC Display Number")." Am I supposed to put something after "5900"? I don't understand what "VNC Displ

Re: "1280x1024" to "1024x768"

2004-11-01 Thread Corné Beerse
Philippe Ivaldi wrote: Hello, I have a computer, says A, with Linux and xf4vnc installed (manualy). I have configured the file "XF86Conf-4" as described in the web page http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/doc.html So you get the console in a vnc-session. Then you need to change the console size to chan

Re: Only use http

2004-10-28 Thread Corné Beerse
Dullien, Marc wrote: Hello, I have been using VNC quite a time now but now I have been running into trouble. At my work, we used ist to connect to PCs of employees at home and on the road to fix things. We dialed up to the internet to avoid the firewall problems. Since we do have a good Internet Co

Re: Problem using VNC with VMWare

2004-10-27 Thread Corné Beerse
Rich Schaaf wrote: I'm having trouble using VNC to remotely control a VMWare session. When the screen changes on the VMWare guest machine, those screen repaints are not reflected across the VNC connection. Instead, I need to move the mouse around the area of the screen occupied by the VMWare displa

Re: Problem with RealVNC 4.0 on Guests of VMWare ESX

2004-10-14 Thread Corné Beerse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all I hope that there is a VNC Developer out there that can help us in solve this problem: We have a Linux Box with VMWare ESX 1.2.1 installed on it. On VMWare we created three Windows 2000 Guests and installed RealVNC 4.0 on it. Now comes the problem: After a whil

Re: visuals of different depths on same screen?

2004-10-11 Thread Corné Beerse
Jeff Boerio wrote: I'm trying to configure Xvnc so that it will accept multiple color depths on the same screen. We have two applications, one which is required to run in 8-bit pseudocolor mode, and another which requires a 24-bit color depth. For what I know of `Xvnc` is that it implements a basi

Re: How do I tell the version of my Linux vncserver?

2004-10-01 Thread Corné Beerse
geofgibson wrote: I can't really find a way to see if I'm using ver. 3 or 4. Where could I find that on my system? Xvnc --help it lists roughly at the top. Thanks. Geof Gibson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apple Certified Portable TechnicianRegistered Linux User 319068 You can always send mail to soun

Re: Linux and more that 16 VNC ports

2004-09-03 Thread Corné Beerse
Denis Croombs wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to get more than 16 VNC sessions working on a Redhat server with > VNC v4.0, I have over 50 running from /etc/inittab with no problems, except > that when I try and connect to the 17 connected port (any port number but > always the 17th) I get a connectio

Re: cut/paste and mouse scrolling - Update

2004-09-03 Thread Corné Beerse
Michael Rayle wrote: All, In my previous post, I mentioned that I cannot mouse scroll with the realVNC viewer. I realized that I was using the 3.3.3 version of the viewer and tried the 4.0 version With RealVNC 4.0, I can use the mouse scroller. That's great! I do have a problem that has s

Re: Cut/paste and mouse scrolling

2004-09-03 Thread Corné Beerse
Michael Rayle wrote: All, I have a serious beef right now with VNC. I am using VNC to connect a Win-XP client to a Linux server (FVWM on X). If I want to use the scroll-wheel, I have to run "Tight VNC" viewer. I have it working with the previous and current RealVNC versions (3 and 4).

Re: Security Feature Suggestion: "Delete Password" on exit?

2004-08-26 Thread Corné Beerse
Alex K. Angelopoulos wrote: I've been looking at VNC in remote assistance roles recently, and it has occurred to me that for that specific role, it might be helpful if VNC could be set to either delete the registry keys for passwords on exit or to never save the password at all. I find myself t

Re: VNC's on Redhat ES3.0

2004-07-13 Thread Corné Beerse
Denis Croombs wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to setup 25 VNC terminals on a Redhat ES3.0 server, but I > keep being asked for a VNC password which I setup as user "root" I input > the password but it does not get accepted, I want to get rid of this > password requirement and just have the user

Re: Can't see graphic display, only text console

2004-07-05 Thread Corné Beerse
Roland Berger wrote: Hi all I use Suse Linux 9.1 and would like to connect to it from Windows XP. I have Real VNC viewer version 4 installed on Windows and Real VNC server version 4 installed on Linux. For a start, best to remove your installed version and install the one that comes with SuSE. O

Re: clipboard interchange not working

2004-07-02 Thread Corné Beerse
Josh Baudhuin wrote: Hi all... No responses... :-( It's amazing how big of a pain this is. Copying stuff from a unix window to my windoze-based email client is now impossible. Is *anyone* else using a similar configuration? (winxp viewer, solaris server) Is anyone else using WinXP client with any u

Re: Clipboard Problems VNC4.0

2004-07-02 Thread Corné Beerse
Jim Wirtz wrote: I have installed VNC4 on my Solaris, Linux and XP computers all works well with a the exception of the cut and paste between viewer and local machine. I can cut and paste between 2 XP machines, but I can not between ANY machine and a Linux/Unix machine. Options on the Linux/Unix

Re: VNC 4.0

2004-07-01 Thread Corné Beerse
Shaw, Kevin wrote: All, I'm having the exact same problem on Solaris 7. Solaris 8 is on a Ultra30 and Solaris 7 is on a E250. I have the latest patch cluster on Solaris 8. I searched the patch report to make sure I have the latest patches for the FFB frame buffer also. Does anyone know the syntax f

Re: Modifying Xstartup

2004-07-01 Thread Corné Beerse
Jarod.E.Cannicott-1 wrote: I would like to modify the xstartup file so that I can specify certain applications to run at start up. I have found plenty of documentation on how to change the OS as in KDE and gnome, but I am fine with twm as long as I can start up the applications needed automatically

Re: font problem with vnc and bakbones netvault

2004-06-30 Thread Corné Beerse
Olaf Joerk wrote: Hi, we use VNC for remote administration on several linux boxes from NT laptops. So far so good. Our only problem is, that when starting netvaults gui, we see dotted squares instead of menu texts. The texts of some other elements were shown. When using the same gui from the cons

Re: Where can I get VNC version 3.3.6

2004-06-30 Thread Corné Beerse
Tobias Gerdner (KA/EAB) wrote: Hi, I would need version 3.3.6 but I can only find 3.3.7 on the homepage. Anyone who knows where I can get this? For RealVNC and the origional vnc, I only know versions 3.3.1, 3,3,3 and 3,3,7 (and now 4.0) Why do you definitly need an older version? Might it be that

Re: VNC support for alt-tab

2004-06-29 Thread Corné Beerse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the viewers menu (mouse button on the top bar) you can select the and keys. Combine them with the required keys and the result is sent to the server. Please guide me if there is any hidden key behind this. is a key to show the above menu. Cbee Thanks Cbee for the

Re: VNC support for alt-tab

2004-06-29 Thread Corné Beerse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am using VNC Viewer (Windows 2k) - VNC Server (Linux) combination. I am missing the support of alt-tab switching between the windows. If I press alt-tab windows catches this event. VNC viewer documentation says it does not support few ctrl, alt key combinatio

Re: VNC 4.0 on HP UX 10.20

2004-06-25 Thread Corné Beerse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message Hello VNC users, i want to start vnc on a HP UX 10.20 machine, but there is an error message: # x0vncserver -h /usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: /usr/lib/libdld.2 /usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory Do I need another packa

Re: Problem with remote desktop

2004-06-23 Thread Corné Beerse
James Leo wrote: Hi I have been using VNC without a problem. However recently I connected to a Windows XP machine with VNC and with remote desk at the same time. My remote desktop connection was set at a much higher resolution than the computer I was connecting to. I then noticed that VNC seem to p

Re: (no subject)

2004-06-23 Thread Corné Beerse
Tammy Vasquez wrote: Is there a version of RealVNC that will run on AIX Unix ? I'm sure there is, however it most likely is based on version 3.x (3.7 or 3.3 or such) Check the website (http://www.realvnc.com/) and scan for things like other unix builds and such. In the end, it should be possible

Re: Tab Key

2004-06-21 Thread Corné Beerse
Daryl Lee wrote: I posted a query to this list a couple of weeks ago and found that I was mixing RealVNC and TightVNC. I have since exorcised TightVNC from my system and would like to try again to get my question answered. I'm running VNC 4.0, using a browser (Netscape on Windows) to access the Ja

Re: realVNC on Linux

2004-06-21 Thread Corné Beerse
Nguyen, Hien T wrote: It seemed that when you connect to a linux vnc server. The viewer only update the screen when there is mouse movement. Other than that, the screen just doesn't update. Is there a way to have it so that the linux vnc server constantly update the screen without having to dete

Re: realVNC on Linux

2004-06-18 Thread Corné Beerse
Nguyen, Hien T wrote: I have a question about the realVNC version for redhat linux. I am trying to have the linux vnc server to update continuously. For some reason, I cannot seemed to use vncconfig to do this. Basically I have an animated clip that I want to be able to view from a window box to

Re: How to put annotations in sessions list in VNC Viewer 3.3.7 ?

2004-06-17 Thread Corné Beerse
Gildas wrote: Hi, I am used to connect to VNC servers which don't have DNS hostname but only IP. So, in the sessions list, I only have IPs so I need to remember the IP of each server I need to connect. I would like to be able to add annotations in the sessions list (for example a label to identify

Re: VNC 4

2004-06-16 Thread Corné Beerse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wez, I registered then started the service through my TS session, then closed TS and ran VNC, but when I try to connect I get "server closed connection unexpectedly". I can understand why this would happen, if as you said, it was running in application mode, however in serv

Re: user defined ports

2004-06-16 Thread Corné Beerse
Laxmikant Rashinkar wrote: Hi, I have installed Real Vnc 4 on my systems. I am able to change the port number in the server configuration. But how do I change the port number in the viewer? I have tried the following options in the "VNC Viewer: connection Details" dialog box, but none of them work

Re: VNC 4.0 released

2004-06-16 Thread Corné Beerse
James Weatherall wrote: RealVNC is pleased to announce the release of VNC 4.0. VNC 4.0 is a complete redesign of the VNC system, but maintains backwards compatibility with the old VNC 3 releases. Verry nice, I wil start using it yesterday, however, since I have no time, I will start tomorrow ;-)

Re: Q: PAM/Kerberos authentication

2004-06-16 Thread Corné Beerse
Dave Love wrote: Corni Beerse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SuSE does have a similar scheme build in already. Check the SuSE docs on VNC. Could you be more specific? The SuSE VNC client doesn't seem to contain anything Kerberos-related and I couldn't find any relevant doc in a web search. I was n

Re: Printing

2004-06-14 Thread Corné Beerse
FriendlySolutions wrote: Can the viewer print to his workstation, if so how? The display of the viewer can be printed at the viewer side printers. Use the print-screen function of the viewer-side os. The system running inside the viewer prints at the server side printers. vnc only handles keyboar

Re: vnc-server: too much processor load

2004-06-14 Thread Corné Beerse
sashko wrote: Hello, there are 2 machines with VNC-server installed under win2K on both of them. The hardware is pretty the same (cel400 MHz ram256). However, when I'm accessing the server from my linux machine (using vncviewer), the behavior is quite different. Vnc server loads processor not more

Re: Video in windows xp

2004-06-14 Thread Corné Beerse
alex lario wrote: Hi, i am using VNC and when i try to see a movie in the pc server in my pc viewer i cant see anything, i mean that the movie starts but i can only see it in the pc server, nothing in the pc viewer. Well i hope somebody can help me, thanks in advance. That is due to hardware ac

Re: virtual desktops

2004-06-14 Thread Corné Beerse
Michael Waters wrote: Hello, Someone suggested to me to try VCN to do the remote desktop You are at vnc now... options I am trying to do. What I would like to do is allow someone to "log on" to my computer, but I don't want them to have control of the same desktop I am seeing/usi

Re: Q: PAM/Kerberos authentication

2004-06-14 Thread Corné Beerse
Adam J. Bradley wrote: Corne et al, Thanks to all of you who responded. I'm currently using the method you describe on a SuSE 9.1 Pro box and it works well! What I'm trying to achive is single sign on. That is, to pass credentials through to GDM/KDM/XDM in order to log straight in! SuSE does ha

Re: Q: PAM/Kerberos authentication

2004-06-10 Thread Corné Beerse
Adam J. Bradley wrote: Hi all, I've been searching for an implementation of VNC which uses either PAM or Kerberos as its authentication method in order to provide single sign-on to Xvnc server sessions. If it is for Xvnc, I'd remove the vnc-security and use the unix account by means of xdmcp. See

Re: CITRIX

2004-06-08 Thread Corné Beerse
R.Klaus wrote: Hello, can I use the WIN/VNCVIEWER also within an CITRIX-environment (install the viewer on the Citrix server and use it on the Citrix clients) to get remote access to a LINUX server ? Yes, you can. In its bare essence, the viewer is only an application that shows a picture and

Re: NewBie to VNC on Solaris

2004-06-03 Thread Corné Beerse
Ramesh S Pillai wrote: > Hi > > how do i start the vnc server > i tried Xvnc at the # prompt > ___ > ./Xvnc > _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running > > Fatal serve

Re: questions about vnc and audio and video

2004-06-03 Thread Corné Beerse
Me .. wrote: Hi therei have a couple of questions: firstly, what technical reasons are behind VNC not supporting audio (sound)?...and the second is The reasons I can trace back to include (but are not limited to): - Not defined in the rfb protocol - Not implemented - Not available on a lo

Re: Vnc Passwd File / Multiple Independent VNC Connections

2004-06-03 Thread Corné Beerse
Carlos Sunden wrote: Hello, While reading an article at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5499 It refers to starting the VNC server at boot up, and editing the passwd file. I prefer the setup as on http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp. It obsoletes roughly all user-spec

Re: java viewer and display :0

2004-06-02 Thread Corné Beerse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > Suppose I am running a debian linux machine with KDE as the GUI, and > tightVNC. A friend is using the linux machine locally and I would like to > show them how to do something. I am on an arbitrary pc somewhere on the > network which may or may not have VNC

Re: VNC Listening mode under Linux / vncconnect

2004-05-27 Thread Corné Beerse
Bernd Lachner wrote: > Hi, > > we want to use vnc in our school-network to make it possible to look at > pupil-clients and to show the teachers-screen to all pupils. > For Windows there is a destop-programm, but for Linux there is none (we > found nothing). From the remainder of your message I

Re: VNC trouble

2004-05-25 Thread Corné Beerse
Halm Mathieu wrote: > Hello, > I have configured VNC with a Linux server RedHat 8.0 and a Windows client > NT4. When I launch the VNC client, it's OK I view the KDE desktop of my Linux > server. But, what I do from the client is not visible on the server Linux ( > for example when I open a terminal

Re: gzipped tar (.tar.gz) or Redhat 7.3 RPM (.i386.rpm)

2004-05-19 Thread Corné Beerse
Carlos Sunden wrote: Hello Did an rpm test install of the Redhat 7.3 RPM (.i386.rpm) available for download, at the http://www.realvnc.com/download.html site. The test reported a 100% ok. The intended system is Red Hat Linux 8. Is this package, Redhat 7.3RPM (.i386.rpm) recommended? Should we

Re: Multicasting-newbie

2004-05-07 Thread Corné Beerse
COMBRISSON Pierre 126051 wrote: I did not find any digest documentation dealing with : "Multicasting with VNC for dummies". I think you overlooked it... its empty... vnc does no multicast (in the tcp/ip way) I would like to use VNC only for that purpose in a classroom. For that purpose, you can

Re: KDE

2004-05-06 Thread Corné Beerse
Nate McMaster wrote: So, I've been searching the archives to the point of going crazy. I've found all the information that I can and have made the proper Have you searched the SuSE knowledge base? adjustments, but I still am having troubles. Here's the situation: -I'm running SuSE Linux 9.0 with

Re: Viewer Port Number

2004-05-03 Thread Corné Beerse
Matthew Schroeder wrote: okay, so let's say you tell the server to listen on port 6000, how do you tell the viewer on another machine that the server is listening on port 6000, not 5900? To use vncviewer with any port number, keep in mind that it accepts an integer for the display number and add

Re: Cannot make VNC 4 connect on port 80

2004-05-03 Thread Corné Beerse
Turbosquid Rivera wrote: I set the server service mode options to listen on port 80, verified with Netstat -an (windows) What did `telnet host 80` report? If netstat reports usage, there is a webserver running. VNC cannot handle an other app running on the same port. If you change the display n

Re: Signalling VNC sessions in multimedia sessions

2004-05-03 Thread Corné Beerse
Jonathan Lennox wrote: Hello, all -- It's often desirable to share a computer screen as part of a larger multimedia session. An example of this is if you're giving a presentation with slides (Powerpoint or the like) -- you want the other side to be able to see the slides you're showing on your l

Re: VNC vs. TS

2004-04-28 Thread Corné Beerse
Mike Miller wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Corni Beerse wrote: This message clearly shows how and where Micro$oft makes abuse and reuse of terms: The protocol that is used by VNC is called RDP. AFAIK, that's a kind of open protocol. Then M$ started those stuff they call RemoteDesktop for which they

Re: VNC vs. TS

2004-04-27 Thread Corné Beerse
Jerome R. Westrick wrote: On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the subject of compliment one another. I use TS to manage out servers, but VNC server is also loaded on both servers. It's not been the first time that the TS session has screwed up proper, not allowing me to log

Re: Why does VNC server on unix just die?

2004-04-22 Thread Corné Beerse
Kelly F. Hickel wrote: I've been seeing the following behavior for quite awhile, and I'm getting tired of it, so I thought I'd ask From time to time, I'll go to connect to a VNC server session and it will have exited. There's nothing in the VNC or machine logs, the X lock files in /tmp have

Re: Open connections upon close

2004-04-22 Thread Corné Beerse
Seak, Teng-Fong wrote: I don't use Unix version of VNC but I would think this is the way it should be, just like X Windows and Terminal Services. I think I missed the origional post, I'm sure I pointed to http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp which just does what is described.

Re: How do I get the .vnc files to work on other workstations?

2004-04-22 Thread Corné Beerse
Beling, Michael wrote: I have a bunch of .vnc configs for several boxes that we commonly connect to and I sent them to another machine, but I can't seem to open them up. I get a program association list and nothing seems to work. I expect those *.vnc files are generated with the 'save connection i

Re: VNC Applet

2004-04-21 Thread Corné Beerse
Ravi Vachhani wrote: Hi Friends, I have downloaded the source code for java VNC Viewer and made applet of that but when I try to run this applet it gives me error:- com.ms.security.SecurityEcxeptionEx(cannot connet to IP Address). So Please help me to make an proper vnc viewer applet. I think jav

Re: DISPLAY UNREADABLE WITH VNC Viewer

2004-04-21 Thread Corné Beerse
Celina Liu wrote: Hi, Corne Thanks for your reply. I did try setting the font path as you suggested and change the depth from 8 to 16 to 24, however without luck, it still does not work. Is there any other setting I can try ? I started to mention the fontpath update: In the vnc session, do `xset

Re: Is There A Way To Do This ... ???

2004-04-20 Thread Corné Beerse
Tennis Smith wrote: Hi, Is there a way to stop a users' VNC connection if a particular application is exited? We'd like to have users access Emacs on a VNC server. If the user exits Emacs, the connection itself would be terminated. Can that be done? Yes. IF you peek at the current/default .vnc/

Re: Java viewer

2004-04-20 Thread Corné Beerse
Bjxrn Sandsaunet wrote: I want to change the look of the html-file for the java applet viewer. I cant find the file, is the file generated on the fly inside the server? With the unix/linux implementation you can find the html files in the ...vnc/classes/ directory, they have the extention '*.vnc

Re: DISPLAY UNREADABLE WITH VNC Viewer

2004-04-20 Thread Corné Beerse
Celina Liu wrote: Hi, I have used the VNCviewer on window system to install oracle software through a VPN connection to a Solaris box. the VNCviewer can launch the Installer and display fonts in the Installer window are fine, but Now when I launch another tool DBCA (from Oracle as well) the displ

Re: centrix solution using vnc?

2004-04-16 Thread Corné Beerse
Simon Oosthoek wrote: Hi all I'm new to this list, so please forgive me for any faux-pas I make in ignorance ;-) I work as a sysadmin in a small company and we're using Linux on the desktop (mainly). I'm looking for an efficient and workable solution to run MS-office applications, but I'd like to

Re: Which is the best

2004-04-14 Thread Corné Beerse
ProMark wrote: Hi Corni Beerse, I need to use it for remote support of my customers, who have NO idea what a router is or even if they have one. Most have an SBC or earthlink DSL service (dynamic IP addresses). Since there is no special need, best go for the most stable one. I'd say http://www.

Re: Take VNC session control

2004-04-13 Thread Corné Beerse
Alejandro Sanchez Acosta wrote: Hello, Is there any client (like vncviewer) that take the control of a remote VNC server? Is so hard to try to control a machine if the remote user is moving the mouse or using the keyboard. I don't think there is a way to do what you like, at least not with vnc

Re: Which is the best

2004-04-13 Thread Corné Beerse
ProMark wrote: Hi, Which one of these three has the best program and ease of use; TightVNC, TridiaVNC and UltraVNC, and why? The real one is missing: realvnc... I'd say there is no best version in general. They all have their advantages. From my point of view, realvnc is the best since that is

Re: Specifying host in command line

2004-04-13 Thread Corné Beerse
Simon Pearce wrote: It is possible to specify the host in the command line? I've tried: C:\Program Files\RealVNC\vncviewer.exe 192.168.0.62 C:\Program Files\RealVNC\vncviewer.exe 192.168.0.62:0 I have shortcuts with the next commandline in them: "C:\Program Files\RealVNC\vncviewer.exe" machine:52

Re: How start vncserver for a no-root user whem i m logged on root account ?

2004-04-08 Thread Corné Beerse
William Hooper wrote: Eternal Security said: But if i want to start vncserver on a port < 1024 (with the -httpport option) i can't do it because only the root user can bind port < 1024. What do you want to do on port < 1024? If it is for http, then be noted it only serves a html page with a jav

Re: Web-based VNC access

2004-04-07 Thread Corné Beerse
Stephan A. Edelman wrote: Let me explain where I'm coming from. We're combining VNC with our Dynamic DNS software and what's distinctly evident from the volume of tech support calls we receive is that the end-user is stumped when they try to access their PC and the browser just displays an "X" in

Re: Web-based VNC access

2004-04-07 Thread Corné Beerse
Stephan A. Edelman wrote: I welcome the availability of an ActiveX control for two reasons: (1) The reality is that Java is becoming less accessible due to the fact that Microsoft has decided to remove it from its browser. This realy starts a war... You at least have the possibility to install java

Re: FW: max clients exceeded

2004-04-06 Thread Corné Beerse
Nepple, Bruce wrote: The error message I am getting is: Xlib: connection to "localhost:11.0" refused by server Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached I think you are logged in to the remote unix machine using ssh. That provides display "localhost:10.0" and/or "localhost:11.0" to use the same pi

Re: problem with keyboard

2004-04-01 Thread Corné Beerse
Raj wrote: Hi, I am using Slackware Linux, FVM95 and Windows98. While using VNC X-windows, in xterm, my keyboard character "5" is working as a backspace character. Sounds like some bad keyboard mapping somewhere. In X (X11, Xvnc, XFree), they are defined with stuff like `xmodmap` and you can

Re: FW: max clients exceeded

2004-04-01 Thread Corné Beerse
Nepple, Bruce wrote: I looked back through a couple months mail and saw nothing on this issue: How can I increase the number of X clients that I can run in a VNC session? I think that is all related to 'other' resources: - max memory per process (Xvnc needs to handle it all - max sockets and such

Re: i can not access the server (linux woody ) by using viewer under windows 2000 !!help

2004-03-29 Thread Corné Beerse
ayman amin wrote: Hi All, my problem as it is , I have OS windows2000 and have a os Linux woody and 2 system is connected via a LAN network , I would like to view a Linux desktop from windows so I have download the VNC viewer (windows version) and installed it on my windows 2000 OS and I have dow

Re: Security Question /tmp/.X11-pipe

2004-03-25 Thread Corné Beerse
Douglas Fisher wrote: In order to run vncserver on my Solaris machines I have to chmod 777 /tmp/.X11* or I get the error: Failed to establish all listening sockets (obviously when running the vncserver NOT as the root user) Since these directories are created very late in the boot up process we ha

Re: Realization of VNC under .net

2004-03-23 Thread Corné Beerse
Kudrin Max wrote: Hello! Does anyone know about realization of VNC under .net? Search gives nothing. Well, VNC can do perfectly without .net. What should it do with .net? Is there any advantage of using .net if it also works without? CBee ___ VNC-

Re: display problems

2004-03-23 Thread Corné Beerse
aristeidis tsitras wrote: hello there. i got two machines running woody, and kde 3.2. i installed realvnc server in the remote, and realvncviewer on the desktop. apparently i If this is installed from the vnc packages as supplied with Debian Woody, try to run `vncpasswd.real` and supply a vncpas

Re: ~/.vnc: No such file or directory when starting vncserver

2004-03-22 Thread Corné Beerse
Tim Trentham wrote: I saw this same problem posted earlier this month, but saw no response yet with a resolution. I installed the vncserver package on a stable release of Debian woody (3.0.2). The version showing for the package is 3.3.3r2-20. Debian ringed a bell here... I saw on debian woody

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