WinVNC on NT returning unusable applet

Tue, 09 Jun 1998 15:44:45 +0000

On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Ogston, Iain M wrote:

> When I connect from a Win95 client (MSIE 4.0 or Netscape 3.0) with
> http://MyServerName:5800/ I get a useless applet back (tiny size).  See
> source of document....
> 
> <HTML><TITLE>VNC desktop</TITLE>
> <APPLET CODE=vncviewer.class ARCHIVE=vncviewer.jar WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=32>
> <param name=PORT value=5900></APPLET></HTML>

WinVNC thinks that your PC has a zero-by-zero display size.  This usually
indicates that it wasn't able to establish the screen size at all.  When
you tried connecting remotely, was WinVNC running as an app or a service?
Was a screen-saver displayed or the machine locked in some way?

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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