How does the ConnectPriority option work?

[Matthew C. Grab]

When you run the viewer, do you start it with the /shared option?
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Youngquist <Eric.Youngquist "at" cisco.com>
To: vnc-list <vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 10:15 AM
Subject: How does the ConnectPriority option work?


> Folks,
>
> I would like to allow a VNC server (NT 3.3.3r2) have multiple VNC viewer
> connections at the same time for performing remote demonstrations.
> According to the documentation, it appears that setting the registry entry
> ConnectPriority to "1" on the server should do the trick.  I set the value
> correctly in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ORL\WinVNC3\Default", but when I
> try to connect with just two clients, the first one always dies.  Is there
> something else that I need to do?
>
> ConnectPriority
> By default, all WinVNC servers will disconnect any existing connections
when
> an incoming, non-shared connection is authenticated.  This behavior is
> undesirable when the server machine is being used as a shared workstation
by
> several users or when remoting a single display to multiple clients for
> viewing, as in a classroom situation.
>
> ConnectPriority indicates what WinVNC should do when a non-shared
connection
> is received:
> 0 = Disconnect all existing connections.
> 1 = Don't disconnect any existing connections.
> 2 = Refuse the new connection.
>
> Now, I have been able to share the VNC server when the clients are running
> in listen mode, but this is not what I want.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
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