Zebedee with VNC

Thong Nguyen thongnguyen "at" mail.com
Sat, 10 Jun 2000 02:03:55 +0000


Um, I've had a copy of vnc that supports zlib (warren's implemenation) on my
website for quite a while now.

You can get it at...

http://tummy.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/vnc/vnc_hacks.asp#vnczlib

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Thong (Tum) Nguyen
http://www.veridicus.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> [mailto:owner-vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com]On Behalf Of Peaks, Jeremy
> Sent: Thursday, 8 June 2000 3:38 a.m.
> To: 'Habermann, David (DA)'; vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> Cc: Peaks, Jeremy
> Subject: RE: Zebedee with VNC
>
>
> David,
>
> Thanks very much for this.  Unfortunately I still cannot get it
> to work, at
> least I don't think I have anyway.  I take it the log should show a
> connection was made?  So far it just says waiting for connection...
>
> I'll try another time when I've got more time on my hands, but it
> looks like
> Zebedee isn't going to be as easy to setup as I thought it would be, and
> therefore wouldn't be very appropriate for our needs.  I will just have to
> look forward to one day WinVNC having zlib compression built into it.
>
> Jeremy Peaks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Habermann, David (DA) [mailto:habermann "at" dow.com]
> Sent: 06 June 2000 16:57
> To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> Cc: Jeremy.Peaks "at" maff.gsi.gov.uk
> Subject: RE: Zebedee with VNC
>
>
> Jeremy:
>
> Now that my morning of meetings is over, I can spend a few more minutes
> helping you out.  Jeremy, you may receive a duplicate message because I
> copied you directly.  I believe the VNC list is running an attachment
> stripper which would have prevented my config files from reaching you.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, there is no command to close the Zebedee
> server, although I'm not sure why you want to close it.  The
> client end can
> easily be configured for single-use mode so that it shuts down after one
> connection has been made and terminated.  I just leave the server end
> running.  If you feel that you must close it, you might consider using
> Virtually Unix which has a kill.exe program that can be used to forcibly
> kill a process (similarly to what Ctrl+Alt+Del does, although some
> programming is required to get the process id and transfer it to the kill
> routine - left as an exercise for the student ;<)
>
> As to why you can't get the Zebedee client to contact it's
> server, here is a
> brief discussion of how I do this:
>
> start vnc server listening on normal ports (5800 for web, 5900 for rfb)
>     (in my case, a PC in my home)
>
> start zebedee server on same machine as vnc server
>     c:\progra~1\zebedee\zebedee.exe -f c:\progra~1\zebedee\server.zbd
>     (see attached zebedee server.zbd file)
>     (reason for serverport 443 is for compatibility with our firewall
>
> start zebedee client on same machine as vnc client
>     c:\progra~1\zebedee\zebedee.exe -f c:\progra~1\zebedee\tohomepc.zbd
>
> The client file automatically runs the vncviewer.exe program
> which connects
> to the zebedee client on port 5901 (localhost:1 in VNC naming).
> The zebedee
> client the connects to the zebedee server on port 443 through our
> firewall.
> The zebedee server then connects to the vnc server on port 5900 and we are
> off to the races.  When you first start the zebedee client, NO
> CONNECTION TO
> THE ZEBEDEE SERVER WILL BE MADE.  The connection to the zebedee server is
> only made when a connection request is received at the zebedee
> client (in my
> case this occurs when the vncviewer.exe program executes.
>
> By the way, be sure to execute the registry item included with the zebedee
> distribution causing VNC to allow loopback connections.  This seems to be
> required both on the client and server end (although the VNC documentation
> doesn't seem to read this way and I'm not positive of my facts here).
>
> Keep the faith, zebedee will probably work for you.  I, too, was unable to
> make Intelicom work for the same reason as you.
>
> Dave Habermann
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