Re: weird behavior
Ed LaFrance <edl <at> colocationonline.info>
2010-02-10 15:48:55 GMT
Hi Abby -
I had the same experience with my problem: the windows service mode
of TightVNC breaks, but the user mode works fine. In my case, it
happened after running a spyware scrubber on the system running the
server service. Restoring the changes made the by the scrubber
restored functionality to the system, but the system needed to be
scrubbed, and I have no idea as to which if the hundreds of items
removed by the scrubber would affect VNC server.
It seems that the TightVNC system service for Windows is rather
fragile. When it first happened to me, I went trolling on the 'net
for answers and found that a) there are several other dist's of VNC
out there, and b) they all seem to have a similar problem. For
instance, I found this forum for UltraVNC, and a couple of users
posted that the VNC server service breaks after running spyware
cleaners: http://forum.ultravnc.info/viewtopic.php?p=626. I also
tried purging TightVNC from the affected system, including registry
entries, then installing RealVNC - same problem.
I guess this means that it's something in the VNC core code that is
common to all these dists, but I have no idea what it is, how to
detect it and how to fix it. :(
Ed
At 07:39 AM 2/10/2010, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>It worked properly with the user-mode service. Funny how that happened.
>
>Abby.
>
>
>On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Ed LaFrance
><edl <at> colocationonline.info> wrote:
> > Hi Abby -
> >
> > I'm also having issues with TightVNC's system service, albeit for different
> > reasons - I posted my woes on this board yesterday. Perhaps you and I are
> > the only two poor souls here. :)
> >
> > Anyway, what happens if you stop the system service, then configure and run
> > the user-mode TightVNC server on the target box and try to connect to it
> > from your remote machine?
> >
> > Ed
> >
> > At 06:57 AM 2/10/2010, you wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> It's running as a system service.
> >>
> >> Abby.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Ed LaFrance <edl <at> colocationonline.info>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi Abigail -
> >> >
> >> > Are you running the VNC server as system service, or the user-based
> >> > server?
> >> > Might be helpful to know.
> >> >
> >> > Ed
> >> >
> >> > At 04:16 AM 2/10/2010, you wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> I have had Tight-vnc working well until I activated windows file
> >> >> sharing on the server (win XP), and now it won't connect. It will
> >> >> work however if I put the viewer in listening mode and connect via the
> >> >> server.
> >> >>
> >> >> Any idea how to fix this problem? I've tried reinstalling without
> >> >> luck.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks.
> >> >>
> >> >> Abby.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
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