1 Nov 2003 13:07
Re: Controlling PC-anywhere WITH VCN tight?
Jay Burrill <jayburrill <at> hotmail.com>
2003-11-01 12:07:07 GMT
2003-11-01 12:07:07 GMT
I have done something quite similar to your scenario, starting pcAW on the host to connet to yet another remote. My client was XP and the host 2000, but I don't know that this makes any difference. My only concern would be the Win98 machine. Does it have the power to do all of this? Is pcAW running in file-transfer mode? Or, if they are tryng to run pcAW in graphical mode, that might bring up issues, including graphical performance on your VNC client. - Jay ----Original Message Follows---- From: "A. Censor" <acensor <at> fastmail.fm> Reply-To: "A. Censor" <acensor <at> fastmail.fm> To: <vnc-tight-list <at> lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Controlling PC-anywhere WITH VCN tight? Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:21:47 -0800 I have a client who has (A) A P4 computer upstairs running XP-Home (B) an older PIII downstairs running Win98. Under the Win98 it's running an old complex DOS application that's incompatible with XP AND the mission critical application on IT is PC-anywhere, which dials out on a private dial connection (NOT using a Windows dialup connection) and polls some computers for sales data. It's a complex convoluted legacy application, but it works, and no one, including myself, dares mess with it. Now he wants to be able to on some occasions control/run that downstairs polling computer from his upstairs XP keyboard.(Continue reading)
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I should add a few more details:
I can connect to other vnc servers (both tight and real) from the same
machine, so vncviewer seems fine.
When I connect to this RH9 host I also don't have *any* keyboard focus.
If I start an xterm from a different login shell onto the same X
display, it appears but I get no keyboard focus onto it.
I've got a RedHat 7.3 machine running the same version of tightvnc and I
can connect to this server *just fine*.
I'm running a normal X session on this (RH9) machine when trying to
connect. Should I try stopping my "normal" X session?
Any ideas?
TIA
Craig Emery,
Cambridge, UK
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