Surviving a Win NT reboot

[James (Wez) Weatherall]

> Jacob, on all our NT servers VNC definatly starts before logon, otherwise
I
> would have to spend a lot of time running to and fro. Are you absolutly
sure
> the VNCServer is starting as a service, and is not just placed into the
> startup group on the NT box. We had a number of systems installed by one
of
> my admins in this way, and they exhibit simular behavior.
>
> Also check to see if the networking has any dependancies that are causing
it
> not to start untill logon, the only time I have seen that happen is on
some
> NIC's in Laptops where the pcmcia system does not seem to load untill you
> hit CAD.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacob_Cherian "at" Dell.com [mailto:Jacob_Cherian "at" Dell.com]
> Sent: 28 February 2000 18:05
> To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> Subject: RE: Surviving a Win NT reboot
>
>
> This is not on 9x machine. I want the VNC service to start before logon
and
> be able to get to the desktop. The logon then will be the regular Win NT
> logon.

Windows NT (in particular Server) can take a while to start up services
(anything up to a few minutes).  It'll sit, seemingly idle, for a while
while some service times out or starts up, and wil then rattle off loading
the remaining ones.

This can make it appear as if WinVNC isn't loading at startup when in fact
it is.
(This only applies to NT, not Win95!!!)

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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