Re: VNC AVI files

2003-04-01 Thread Jonathan Morton
Easy answer. The RFB protocol picjs up the video information before it gets to the videocard. this menas that the Video overlay is not picked up as this is done at the card. For vidoe not using overlay, VNc refresh rates are just to slow to mantain a stream( this is the reason Quake sux in a

Re: ChromiVnc disconnect

2003-03-24 Thread Jonathan Morton
ChromiVNC, or to use TightVNC which I understand fixed this bug a long time ago. Hmm, I might try that. Any chance of getting the rest of Jonathan's reply? Is it still referring to encoding bugs? Yes, it was. :-) There's also a known bug in ChromiVNC which causes it problems when dragging

Re: ANNOUNCE : Change to VNC-List Reply-To

2002-11-18 Thread Jonathan Morton
*** To reply to a posting from the list, to everyone else on the list, you must now use Reply To All. *** Prediction: threads will all mysteriously be one post long... And those that aren't will end up with duplicates in the user's mailbox AND the list (like this one) I must now use

RE: ANNOUNCE: List Reply-To change

2002-11-14 Thread Jonathan Morton
Every time a Reply-To change is discussed the above URL is mention. I will now do my end and link to the Response: http://www.metasystema.org/essays/reply-to-useful.mhtml If we are taking a vote, I say keep the Reply-To the way it is now (to the list). Thank you. It's nice to hear a sensible

Re: Where is Jeff.Koenig

2002-11-07 Thread Jonathan Morton
Is there a practical way to filter out autoresponder messages? This is a problem on many lists, not just this one. You could filter based on phrases which commonly appear in such messages, but be careful that you don't filter out legitimate messages that might come your way. It's a hard

Re: AllowEditClients

2002-11-05 Thread Jonathan Morton
Hi, You have a massive pile of X-Notes-Item headers in your mail, which mean it's necessary to scroll down to read your actual message. Please *try* to do something about them. -- -- from: Jonathan Chromatix Morton mail:

Re: AllowEditClients

2002-11-05 Thread Jonathan Morton
Yeah, what am I meant to do about it? Its our company policy. Well, if others don't have a problem with it, fine. I added it to the boring headers list - which is something I rarely have to do, and which most users won't know about, by the way. --

Re: vnc 3.3.3rx and 3.3.4 + port scan (Jeff out of the officeWednesday 11/6/2002) (Jeff out of the office Wednesday 11/6/2002)

2002-11-05 Thread Jonathan Morton
I will be out of the office Wednesday 11/6/2002. Oh no, not another of these. -- -- from: Jonathan Chromatix Morton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/ geekcode: GCS$/E dpu(!) s:- a21 C+++ UL++ P

Re: vncserver on powerpc newbus

2002-11-01 Thread Jonathan Morton
When I connect using windows client if I use raw in Format and Encoding it works perfect if I just try to connect it crashes is there anyway I can use a command line option to tell viewer to use raw? Or is there some other option I can do? ChromiVNC. See my signature. You should find it works

Re: On cable, can no longer VNC (ICMP blocked?).. solutions?

2002-10-31 Thread Jonathan Morton
In the last few weeks I have lost the ability to VNC to my home system. I've notice I can no longer ping or traceroute to it either. I suspect that my cable ISP (Adelphia) is blocking ICMP now, although they swear they aren't. I didn't realize that VNC was dependent on ICMP. More likely, your IP

Re: How to setup Multiple Monitors under Windows XP ?

2002-10-11 Thread Jonathan Morton
I'm running Windows XP and use a Matrox G550 DualHead card. Whatever I try, I can not get both in the VNC Viewer. You might try one of the alternative VNC servers, such as TightVNC. -- -- from: Jonathan Chromatix Morton mail:

RE: re :Displaying applications running on solaris on the client?

2002-10-10 Thread Jonathan Morton
Thanks for ur response CBee, so u mean thats it is almost impossible to view the exact mapping of solaris screen that im working on with the viewer...so vnc the Unix server acts differently than windows server..right?? Yep. Btw: its the other way round: the M$Windows differs from all

Re: Am I an ID10T? (Listening Viewer confusion)

2002-09-29 Thread Jonathan Morton
Essentially, it lets you initiate the connection from the server instead of the client. The client/viewer listens for an incoming connection from the server. On the server, there's an 'add new client' (for Windows, YMMV) option...that's what it does. D) There are three commonly-useful

Re: Mac Classic - not connecting

2002-09-28 Thread Jonathan Morton
Upon launching VNC viewer and telling it to connect to: IP Address x:0 it never connects. Eventually I get a message about StartConTimedOut. Sounds like you're using the ancient ORL software. http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/vnc/ for a better server. http://www.webthing.net/vncthing/ for a

Re: VNC version 3.3.4 released

2002-09-25 Thread Jonathan Morton
ZRLE is fully documented in the RFB protocol specification. Looks quite interesting. I wonder if I'll be able to squeeze it into ChromiVNC some day. -- -- from: Jonathan Chromatix Morton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website:

Re: Remote installing on a Mac

2002-09-18 Thread Jonathan Morton
I was wondering if it is possible to remotely install (like fastpush) VNC onto a Mac running osX. Sure, OSX contains a built-in SSH server, and the files and installation commands can be issued through that. -- -- from: Jonathan

Re: Fw: Important DNS2Go Bulletin

2002-09-13 Thread Jonathan Morton
the other free service is www.dynu.com is there any more free dns services? please share sob sob... been using dns2go for quite some time. I use www.dyndns.org (not to be confused with dyndns.com which is commercial). If you make a donation, you get enhanced features, but it's

Re: Re--eSVNC 1.1.2 - Bad news --- Suggestion

2002-09-05 Thread Jonathan Morton
I'm pretty sure us here in the USA are screwed too as far as *export* is concerned. ( though we can import..) However, last i heard, Canada is still a 'free' state..( in this case anyway ) That's were OpenBSD is 'hosted', just for this reason. Stupid freedom restrictive laws.. phffft. Many

Re: Multiple Servers on a Win Machine...

2002-09-02 Thread Jonathan Morton
In other words, I need to give a demo to five remote users on a PC that I can't access physically. In order to achieve this, I need to be able to have one of two things: 1) Two VNC Servers running on the same Windows machine: one for the Controller and one for Viewers Or 2) Two passwords for

Re: Installing Xvnc and java virtual machine question

2002-09-02 Thread Jonathan Morton
I am now testing TridiaVNC and going to install tvncinst.linux.tar on RH7.3. The latter requires the installation of java virtual machine Java 1.1.4 or latter. I searched it with google and found many. I hesitate which is correct. Can any folk on the list who has previous experience

Re: VNC is hackable (was VPN and VNC)

2002-08-30 Thread Jonathan Morton
Unless you have added encryption to it, the passwords are not encrypted. Please explain the discrepancy between the claim above and FAQ #55: I will freely admit that I have not studied the source code thoroughly. I can think of three possible explanations for the discrepancy. There may be

RE: Shatter after ImpersonateLoggedOnUser()?: RE: shatter vulne rability

2002-08-21 Thread Jonathan Morton
I think everyone is missing the point. It doesn't matter if VNC is the application that one uses the shatter attack on or not. The point is that VNC, or any remote access program as pointed out, effectively gives the same ability of being physically present at the server. You can cut-and-paste

Re: WinXP reboots itself...

2002-08-21 Thread Jonathan Morton
I have a WinME 'server' running VNC as a serveice. When I connect to it from my WinXP Home PC, the WinXP machine will occasionally (like once in every 20 tries or so) lock up, and then reboot itself moments later. No error messages, nothing - just a warm reboot. Sounds like you may have a

RE: shatter vulnerability

2002-08-16 Thread Jonathan Morton
WM_TIMER induced shatter: One of the modes is the range of messages that we don't even get to see that could execute code as the user the UI runs as. Again, by divorcing the UI from the bits that actually need privs, the escalation possibility decrease. Actually, the messages are *always* seen.

Re: VNC Server on Win98 PC's requesting password on every boot.

2002-08-15 Thread Jonathan Morton
Everytime a Win98 PC is booted VNC Server advises the user that no valid password has been set up and the user is then asked to set the password. Sounds like you missed the Default password. -- -- from: Jonathan Chromatix Morton

Re: make World error

2002-08-01 Thread Jonathan Morton
Did you execute xmkmf ? X11 MaKe MakeFiles. Or something. What is that? a sneeze? In case you hadn't noticed, XFree86 is not based on a GNU-oriented build system. Whether this is an advantage or not depends on which platform you're running. I expect some of the more esoteric

Re: Here's a really interesting request.

2002-07-25 Thread Jonathan Morton
Imagine a situation in which all your company's sales representatives have a Windows CE based Jornada 720 (we are talking about 500 users) and a new application is released. Get the picture in terms of technical support? Is there a way we might get this done? Looks like you want a VNC Server

Re: Password bug on 3.3.3r9 version

2002-07-15 Thread Jonathan Morton
I have determined on the server the password teste@224, but if I type only teste@22 I could connect. Read the documentation. It states that only the first 8 characters of a password are significant. Is this a flaw? Yes. Is it a bug? No. --

Re: Itainium 64

2002-07-08 Thread Jonathan Morton
Hello, Will VNC run on Windows Itanium 64 systems running XP 64 OS? I haven't a clue. Will ordinary x86 programs run on Itanium under XP/64? If so, then probably. However, from reports I've heard, ia64's x86 emulation is extremely inefficient. --

RE: Itainium 64

2002-07-08 Thread Jonathan Morton
Hello, Will VNC run on Windows Itanium 64 systems running XP 64 OS? I haven't a clue. Will ordinary x86 programs run on Itanium under XP/64? If so, then probably. However, from reports I've heard, ia64's x86 emulation is extremely inefficient. I've heard this as well. Now, AMD's

Re: Anti-aliased fonts with KDE, Mandrake 8.2

2002-06-26 Thread Jonathan Morton
I can't seem to get anti-aliased fonts to work, which seem to work fine when using XFree86 as the X Server. While Xvnc is based on XFree86, it's a much older codebase that doesn't support the extensions (RENDER) required for anti-aliased text. --

Re: Macintosh vnc default display number

2002-06-26 Thread Jonathan Morton
We are running Vncserver 3.3.3beta2. Don't. http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/vnc/ -- -- from: Jonathan Chromatix Morton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not for attachments) website: http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/ geekcode:

Re: Small request to new users

2002-06-14 Thread Jonathan Morton
It won't get easier, either. I've seen Microsoft people recommending VNC for use as a remote tool and for GUI console access to pre-XP/.NET systems. I would suggest making a BIG effort to streamline the installation process for inexperienced users. In particular, try to address the

Re: RFB protocol

2002-06-14 Thread Jonathan Morton
M Are there any plans to update the RFB protocol support things like M resoloution and colour depth switching? And other limitiations of M the current system? M It's quite annoying when a app changes the desktop resolution, and M VNC dumps out. TightVNC will support variable screen resolution

Re: Bug report MacOS8.6

2002-06-10 Thread Jonathan Morton
Started connection number 6aa55a4 to 7600 on display 0 at 22:58:58 Connection 6aa55a4 throws an error: T_DNRSTRINGTOADDRCOMPLETE fails -3150 kOTBadAddressErr - A Bad address was specified Connection 6aa55a4 closes at 22:59:1 Standard fix is to visit http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/vnc/ and