W2K and connection closed message

[James "Wez" Weatherall]

> I've been getting the "Connection Closed" messages from the W2K VNC server
> ever since I upgraded from NT4 to W2K.
>
> This was only happening on one box at home so it wasn't bad enough for me
> to troubleshoot.
> When it recently happened at work I took the time to read through my old
> vnc-list digest messages, and found out that VNC has a problem with the
> standard VGA driver under W2K.

I can't find any such message in the list digest!  Are you sure you're not
reading messages about Windows 9x by mistake?

> - can someone fix this problem in the next release?

If someone sends me a debug output from WinVNC to take a look at, I'll see
whether there's anything obviously wrong with it.  I've never had any
problems using WinVNC on Win2K but I also have no Win2K machines around at
the moment.

> - can we add the workaround (install the factory driver for your video
> card) to the FAQ?

Have you tried upgrading the VGA driver to a card-specific driver?  Does it
fix your problem?

> This particular problem has nothing to do with desktop permissions, etc..

Are you sure?  You MUST be running the service in the SYSTEM account, with
desktop access permissions.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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