Re: Which is the best

2004-04-14 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Both Tridia the company and TridiaVNC the project are alive and well. TridiaVNC the distribution is similar to TightVNC, including multiple desktop, stealth and remote cursor option support. Our latest win32 viewer supports a "fit window" mode to automate scaling adjustments: http://www.tridiavnc

Re: Which is the best

2004-04-14 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Simple, integrated security (encryption, NTLM, LDAP) with firewall support (outbound connections) seems to be a very common requirements set. Our products currently meet the technical requirements and soon there will be even easier installation and setup: http://www.tridia.com/ Brian > I need

RE: ZlibHex Error

2004-03-24 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Undoubtedly, James is correct about CotVNC becoming confused. Likely it is misinterpreting the length of a message and loosing "framing". So, it probably attempts to interpret the start of a message in the wrong place and the message type for ZlibHex (8) happens to be the value it finds. ZlibHex

Re: ZlibHex unknown subencoding 113 encountered error?

2004-03-22 Thread W. Brian Blevins
James, Thank you for the clarification. I suppose we see the scope of the protocol differently. Regards, Brian James Weatherall wrote: > Brian, > > The encoding numbers listed on the AT&T Labs' archive site are mostly > obsolete, but we have assumed their continued existence for compatibilit

Re: ZlibHex unknown subencoding 113 encountered error?

2004-03-22 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Hi James, Back when the ZlibHex work was done, we certainly disclosed the protocol number used to the VNC development team at AT&T Laboratories Cambridge. Compatibility across all implementations has been our goal from the beginning. The protocol number in use by ZlibHex is documented here: htt

RE: ZlibHex unknown subencoding 113 encountered error?

2004-03-22 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Hi James, Since I have been reading your posts for years, I was quite surprised to see the incompleteness and inaccuracy of this particular post. Normally, your messages are both dead on accurate and quite thorough. "ZlibHex" is in fact an extension to VNC, developed by Tridia and included in var

Re: Server doesn't respond

2003-08-14 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Sounds suspiciously like the WinXP software firewall is blocking access to those ports. Have you disabled TCP filtering? Is there any other software firewall in place? Brian > Subject: Re: Server doesn't respond > > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 19:28:05 +0200 > Thomas Schreiner wrote: > > Hello list, >

Re: dual monitor support, MultiVNC ?

2003-02-11 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Jonathan, As far as I know, the Multi-VNC binaries and distribution should work according to the instructions. I would recommend that you perform a full removal of everything VNC related. Then reboot the system. Then install from scratch. Replacing the "VNCHooks.dll" file is hard under certain

RE: FW: Registry key for DisableTrayIcon

2003-02-06 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Su Warren, "DisableTrayIcon" works with TridiaVNC, TridiaVNC Pro and TightVNC. If I recall correctly, it is not supported by RealVNC. You will need to get the registry branch (path) right as well. HKLM\Software\Tridia\TridiaVNC\WinVNC3 DisableTrayIcon (DWORD) http://www.tridiavncpro.com/ HKLM\

Re: Multi-monitor support in Windows

2003-01-28 Thread W. Brian Blevins
''Wez'' Weatherall wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 17:45, W. Brian Blevins wrote: > > Jonathan, > > > > Tridia has incorporated Jay Freeman's work into our latest builds of > > TridiaVNC Pro: > > > > http://www.tridiavncpro.co

Re: Multi-monitor support in Windows

2003-01-27 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Jonathan, Tridia has incorporated Jay Freeman's work into our latest builds of TridiaVNC Pro: http://www.tridiavncpro.com/ Source code: http://www.developvnc.org/logged-in/access-cvs.html Brian > > I've noticed that multi-monitor support has been discussed on and off on > the list over the

Re: tight encoding in realvnc?

2003-01-20 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Fabian, The latest TridiaVNC source code for Win32 on our CVS server has both Tight and RealVNC's ZRLE. In addition, the RealVNC automatic encoding selection based on measured line speed is included. We decided to select the Tight encoding under 64 kbs with ZLRE, hextile and eventually even raw

without VNCHooks.dll: Re: RelVNC bug 19

2002-12-20 Thread W. Brian Blevins
I concur completely with William's rant. BTW, on the question of running without VNCHooks.dll. Yes it is possible. In fact, WinVNC.exe already has full screen polling that can provide reasonable results (obviously YMMV) in the absence of that DLL. However, because the source tree from RealVNC a

RE: VNC "man in the middle" attack

2002-12-03 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Robert, While I have not reviewed the 3.3.4 code myself, I believe that this attack is possible with any release that correctly implements the current VNC authentication mechanism outside of a secure tunnel. This includes our TridiaVNC distribution. TridiaVNC Pro includes built-in SSL/TLS encryp

RE: multiple terminals in vnc

2002-10-30 Thread W. Brian Blevins
> > The text-based program that i'm using places it's output > > (screen) on another > > terminal. My program asks me to press F3 for example, telling > > me to change > > terminal. If i open an xterm through my client, i get a > > prompt (#). If i'm > > working on my sco machine, the program

Preventing shutdown, was: Hiding the VNC Tray Icon

2002-10-24 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Dan, You can prevent shutdown in all of the major VNC distributions without completely disabling the tray icon(s). In TridiaVNC: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\Default] "AllowShutdown"=dword: In TridiaVNC Pro: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Tridia\TridiaVNC\WinVNC3\Default] "Al

Re: Legitimate reason for wanting to hide the tray icon in VNC

2002-10-08 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Mike, You can disable the tray icons in TridiaVNC Pro. In addition, you will get solid encryption and a powerful user interface: http://www.tridiavncpro.com/ The registry settings are included in the "config" directory after you install the product. Take a look at "TVNCPro_NoIcons.reg" among

RE: What is best VNC version?

2002-09-30 Thread W. Brian Blevins
In terms of "security measures", I would recommend TridiaVNC Pro. It supports full SSL 3, i.e.. TLS, encryption (3DES by default) of all network traffic as well as both NTLM and LDAP/NDS authentication and authorization. Recently, we added NT event logging for security auditing purposes. > Fro

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

Encryption export: Re: Re--eSVNC 1.1.2 - Bad news

2002-09-05 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Tridia has an export license (technically an exception for mass market applications I think) for TridiaVNC Pro. In the application process we disclosed the use of standard OpenSSL for encryption, including the ability to change the asymmetric (key exchange) and symmetric (payload) key lengths thr

Re: [despammed] VNC is "hackable" (was "VPN and VNC")

2002-08-29 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Mike, Yes, Wes Groleau's statement was incorrect. Having dealt with the way that VNC handles the password both in the registry and over the network datastream, I can assure you that it is not passed in clear text. Whether the VNC password security is sufficient or not depends greatly on your t

Re: VNC packages from TridiaVNC

2002-08-22 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Seth is correct. Those distributions include both the server and viewer. You will need to run the installer as Administrator/root: http://www.tridiavnc.com/techcenter/installation.html Brian > Message: 7 > From: Seth Kurtzberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: M. I. S. Corp > To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Shatter after ImpersonateLoggedOnUser()?: RE: "shatter" vulnerability

2002-08-21 Thread W. Brian Blevins
ld certainly > give it a benefit over other access methods... > > - Fred > > -Original Message- > From: W. Brian Blevins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tridia Developer List > Subject: Shatte

Shatter after ImpersonateLoggedOnUser()?: RE: "shatter" vulnerability

2002-08-21 Thread W. Brian Blevins
When properly configured, the WinVNC.exe process is notified via MENU_SERVICEHELPER_MSG that a new user has logged in. This causes the thread processing the windows messages for the trayicon and hidden window to call vncService:ProcessUserHelperMessage(). Eventually, this window message processi

Re: NTLM & VNC

2002-08-19 Thread W. Brian Blevins
Authorization for remote access via a "domain level group" is supported in TridiaVNC Pro: http://www.TridiaVNCPro.com/ > Message: 7 > Subject: NTLM & VNC > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:21:03 +0100 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Has anybody manag

RE: Dev. Suggestion: VNCViewer: Better server management

2002-07-24 Thread W. Brian Blevins
TridiaVNC Pro includes a user interface that allows you to manage large numbers of VNC systems. It includes the option to set properties and the ability to scan specified networks for available systems. http://www.TridiaVNCPro.com/ > Hello, > I am using VNC very often to connect to several (abo

RE: Multiple username/password: TridiaVNC Pro: LDAP and NTLM

2002-06-27 Thread W. Brian Blevins
TridiaVNC Pro now supports both LDAP and NTLM authentication. This allows the remote user to be authenticated by username and password against an LDAP server (NDS, OpenLDAP or iPlanet) or NT/active directory domain controller. Remote access authorization is controlled by LDAP groups or NT domain