VNC crashing servers?

[Andrew J Cole]

Quentin,

>Andrew J Cole wrote:
>
>> Using the R6/R11 combination to administer servers I have managed to
>> crash a server a couple of times 
>
>Andrew,
>
>While we won't deny there could very well be bugs in VNC, most of the
>crashes we've heard about have been fixed by either:
>
>* installing or reinstalling the latest service pack
>*  updating video drivers
>*  updating graphics drivers
>
>VNC makes extensive use of the graphics & network cards, and can often
>find bugs in their drivers which otherwise go unnoticed.  If updating
>drivers doesn't help, you might try replacing the cards on the problem
>server with a completely different type.
>
>Quentin

I guess that its the drivers,  I have never had any problems with
deefier servers so its probably time to re-cycle the oldest server.
Its almost time to supplant it with Samba running as a PDC.

Andrew

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