Has anyone noticed vnc automatically rebooting their nt serv

[E. Lefty Kreouzis]

On 02-Jun-98 James [Wez] Weatherall wrote:
> 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?
> 

No just vanilla NT4.0 with SP3

>> 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.

Of course *Win*Vnc doesn't run under linux, writing email with insufficient
caffeine blood content I think.

> 
>> 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.
> 


Yes clearly so. 

The one thing I found extremely nice (modulo minor niggles[1]) was the fact
that if in the viewer I have greek keyboard support (at least under WinXX) I
automagically have greek keyboard support under Xvnc as well. 

Greek keyboards tend not to be very high priority for many things. 


E. Lefty Kreouzis

[1] meaning that I write greek ok but whet I use accents (they use dead
keys) only the accent shows and not the accented character.




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Date: 02-Jun-98
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