Has anyone noticed vnc automatically rebooting their nt serv

[James [Wez] Weatherall]

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, E. Lefty Kreouzis wrote:

> On 02-Jun-98 Parabola wrote:
> > In this case, would VNC be the "something" that caused NT to crash?  Mind
> > giving us a bit more detail, David?  (At least, my 3 NT Servers never
> > crashed or rebooted by VNC.)
> 
> Well mine did, I ran WinVNC 3.3.2 as a service, had the screen saver on,
> connected from a Win95 PC, Got the screen saver and sent Ctrl-Alt-Del to
> get into the system again, Resulting in no responce from the server and an
> instant reboot.

That's not normal.  I've never seen that happen.  Are you running any
other unusual software?  What version & service pack of NT are you
running?

> I ended disabling the screen saver. Oh BTW has anyone noticed that WinVNC
> server is *MUCH* slower under NT than under linux? 

WinVNC doesn't run under Linux, only under Win32 platforms.

> A 1024x768 256 color  desktop under NT crawls,
> 1024x768 65536 colors under linux is quite zippy. Both over 10Mbit
> ethernet, over a 33.6 modem connection using the linux vncviewer is slow but
> not unbearably so at least for the Linux desktop.

Under Linux, I assume you're referring to Xvnc, the VNC X server, which is
an entirely different animal to WinVNC, because of the disparity between
Windows and XFree86 in terms of availability of hook points & source code.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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