A bug in WinVNC 3.3.3r7! + Other options...

[Robert J. Ragno]

At 05:05 PM 7/4/2000 +0200, Hans Vedder wrote:
>...
>Is it possible, to get your version with the dialog box set as modal? Or
>have someone a version with the focus flag set? I would like it more.

I put up my version of WinVNC in the following locations, in case anybody 
wants them:

http://web.mit.edu/rjr/www/winvnc_bin.zip
http://web.mit.edu/rjr/www/winvnc_src.zip

It seems to address several problems that come up regularly.

Hope that's helpful to some more people.

  - Rob

Oh, here's the readme I splatted down.... Which is mostly a copy of an 
e-mail I sent to this list anyway, so I don't think I'll have too much 
interest in this...

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This is a version of WinVNC that I have modified in a number of minor ways.

My primary motive was to make the Query setting be able to be set to auto
*accept*, instead of reject, if desired. This is very useful for people
who don't want others connecting to a machine they are using without their
knowledge.

Along with that, I made an "Advanced Properties" box off of the original
Properties box, where you can set many of the registry options that are not
accessible in the main Properties box. (Logging and extensive logging,
allow loopback connections, allow only loopback connections, require
authentication, connection priority, query settings.)

I also made a system tray menu option to "Disable new clients". (This turns
the icon yellow). This is useful both for securing exclusive access remotely
and for easily temporarily cutting off VNC access while working locally.

Also, I made a (disableable) button on the accept/reject query dialog
labeled "Accept without Password". This does what it says, and is very
useful for showing people something without giving them your password. And
I made the query box system modal, which seems to make sense. (Under NT and
2000, this does not keep you from using other programs, so it seemed best).

There are some things I would like to add but haven't found the motivation
for. A registry option to disable advanced properties access would be nice.
A timer that will reset the "Disallow New Connections" after a certain
amount of time would be helpful to make sure you don't forget. And graying
the options in the advanced dialog that are set in finer detail by the
registry would be nice. None of these are very hard...

Feel free to mutilate it to do what you want, of course.

  - Robert J. Ragno
    rjr "at" mit.edu
    6/6/0
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