Installing WinVNC as a service

James "Wez" Weatherall jnw22 "at" cam.ac.uk
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 10:19:50 +0000


> Please could you help me to install VNC as a service on a few of my
> machines.Most of the installations I have done, have gone through
perfectly.
> A few machines give me this error when I try install WinVNC as a service "
> The SCM could not be contacted - The WinVNC service was not installed." I
am
> running NT 4.0 with service pack 4.

You need to login as Administrator to be able to install new services.

> On a couple of other machines a get a different message " Initialization
of
> the dynamic link library C:\ Program Files\ORL\VNC\VNCHooks.dll failed.
The
> process is terminating abnormally. "

That's completely abnormal and indicates that you're using an old version of
WinVNC, which would cause this error if hook settings could not be loaded
properly.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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          "Xenophobes should go back to Xenophobia"
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