using VNC with a monitor-less PC ?

[Roby Van Hoye]

Hi there,

The keyboard check usually can be disabled in the BIOS settings (I always
turn this check off anyway), tends to be like changing "Halt on all errors"
into "Halt on all errors but keyboard".

If no mouse is present the startup procedure of Windows might inform you
about this and thus wil be pausing the startup-procedure (probably at some
point where the WinVNC service still isn't started). However, I seem to
remeber there is a checkbox option that allows you to never ever show this
message again....

Just try... and if the absence of a mouse keeps you from succesfully
booting the machine, hey, plug in the cheapest mouse you can lay your hands
on and hide it somewhere in the back. (With all the cabling 'modern'
computers are equipped with nowadays you need a masters-degree in knitting
anyway  :)

In each case, my second pc is just running fine having only a mouse and a
modem. (I've got only one keyboard, and my 'worst' mouse functions as a
'backup' input-device).

CU
Roby

At 15:25 21/01/00 -0500, Scala, Lino wrote:
>this is my first post so please forgive me, I'm in a similar situation I
>have a remote server (NT 4.0) and would love to remove both mouse and
>keyboard, somebody keeps knocking down the keyboard and mouse and whenever
>the server is rebooted it stops during POST so my question is: has anyone
>found a way to plug some kind of device in both keyboard and mouse to fake
>their presence?
>Thanks
>
>On 06:07 PM 01/21/2000 +0100, it would appear that Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
>>[trim]
>>I wonder if I can get a PC without a monitor (and also without keyboard and
>>mouse), hide it under my desk, and connect to it via VNC from my Unix
>>workstation.  (of course I could borrow a monitor and keyboard for the
>initial
>>configuration).
>
>I currently have both an NT box and a Win98 box working just as you've 
>described with one exception:  the keyboard.  Having said that, I just 
>plugged the keyboard from the NT box and saw no adverse affects while using 
>VNC.
>
>Tyran Ormond
>LAN Technician/Programmer
>ormondt "at" cvwrf.state.ut.us
>
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