VNC crashing servers?

[Andrew J Cole]

Indeed the old slow PDC is set to VGA. 

Andrew

>It could also be a display driver thing - does the slower, crashing, server
>have a VGA display?  The VGA display drivers are known to be slightly flakey
>when used with VNC.
>
>Cheers,
>
>James "Wez" Weatherall
>--
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Andrew J Cole <A.J.Cole "at" cbl.leeds.ac.uk>
>To: <vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
>Sent: Saturday, June 05, 1999 2:09 PM
>Subject: RE: VNC crashing servers?
>
>
>> Looking at this thread nobody appears to have reported server crashes
>> over a lan.
>>
>> Using the R6/R11 combination to administer servers I have managed to
>> crash a server a couple of times (sometimes in User Manager for
>> Domains, sometines using the Event Viewer) - of course I cannot
>> reproduce this on demand.
>>
>> Both client and server NT boxes are now running NT4SP5 but we saw the
>> occasional crash previously when running NT4SP4.
>>
>> The only common factor is that the crashes have always been with one
>> particular server (other PDCs and BDCs have never crashed when being
>> remotly administered) which is way down on performance (video and cpu)
>> compared to the clients.  So I guess the problem is one of resources on
>> the slow NT server.
>>
>> Andrew

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