One thing new on the XP is the internal filrewall... have you check to make sure the you don't have a firewall problem?
Jerry On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 16:08, Blake McSwain wrote: > Greetings, > > I hope some of you can point me in the right direction, I am completely > stumped. I have used VNC for years and never had a single problem. > > At my clients office they have a Windows ME machine running Real VNC server > 3.3.7. There is an XP laptop that can connect fine while on the LAN. At > home, I have a Windows 2000 server that can connect to the LAN through a > PPTP tunnel and then connect to the Win ME box via VNC with no problems. > The XP laptop on the same remote LAN, connecting the same way through the > VPN cannot connect to the Win ME machine. VNC authenticates and then shows > a black screen that disconnects after a short time. > > I have searched the archives and read some stuff about the MTU setting. I > have changed it on the Win ME machine to 1400. I even turned off fast user > switching on the XP machine. I have tried both the VNC Client and the java > client. The java client appears to load but I never get the initial screen. > I have tried different viewer versions (ORL 3.3.3.3 REAL 3.3.7.0) and the > latest tight VNC, all with similar results. > > So, I guess my questions are; Why does 2000 work and XP not? What am I > missing? How do I go about diagnosing this? Any help will be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Blake > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
