I'm suffering intermittant failures of my VNC viewer, which may be associated with ZoneAlarm Pro.
I am connecting from a Windows XP Home Edition (SP 1) machine to a Sparc Solaris 8 box. Connection works fine and I can work in my OpenWindows desktop environment - for an indeterminant period varying from under a minute to when I'm done and shut down the client manually, sometimes well over an hour. When the client dies it just disappears, without warning. Almost always it leaves a notification box with the helpful diagnostic "Connection closed"; perhaps 10% of the time there's no notification box at all, and once or twice I have seen a somewhat more technical message (which escapes me at the moment). In the VNC server log on the Unix box it just says "Client <IP address> gone," followed by session statistics. Other details: server is Xvnc version 3.3.3. Client is TightVNC viewer version 1.2.6 - but I've tested the "real" VNC version (approximately) contemporaneous with the server and have the same failures. I am 99% certain that I did not see this problem during the two weeks or so I was running this system before installing ZoneAlarm Pro; I have fiddled with Zonealarm's settings without affecting this behavior (specific suggestions welcome). The other details of the setup are: Linksys router with firewall, cable modem (Roadrunner), Contivity VPN client (the Solaris box is behind a corporate firewall). A Windows 98 system connected to the same cable modem and running the same software (but no ZoneAlarm) has no such problems. Diagnostic questions or suggestions, before I deinstall ZoneAlarm? -- Mark Jackson - http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~mjackson It is not easy, these days, to go beyond the bounds of taste. - Paul Goldberger _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
