Trouble shutting down with WinVNC Tray Icon

[Fullford, Richard]

The problem of 10 hour time zone differences is that a lot can happen
overnight. I'm not sure I understand all that you've been talking about so I
thought I should explain the problem as I can see it so that hopefully we
are talking about the same problem.

I have found on Win9x machines, that if you start WinVNC server
automatically, whether as a service or in the Startup menu, when you come to
shut down the machine the shutdown process fails reporting that the VNC Tray
Icon application would not respond to the end task request. If you click End
Task, the shutdown can then proceed. The same may be true if you click
"Wait" but I don't recall trying that.

The problem is that I would really like to have VNC running on these
machines so I don't have to talk the users through the process of starting
it up without having to worry about support calls when they have trouble
shutting down.

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Richard J. Fullford
One Planet Solutions
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-----Original Message-----
From: James ''Wez'' Weatherall [mailto:jnw22 "at" cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Friday, 27 October 2000 3:45
To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
Subject: Re: Trouble shutting down with WinVNC Tray Icon


> I was assuming that the server was not shutting down because of the
> confirmation box if a client is connected.  I've seen it happen a few
times
> where the box didn't actually come up, but the End Task came up instead.
I
> could be wrong about his situation, it was only an assumption based on my
> experience with this.  It's like a race between that box comming up and
> Windows deciding that the program has taken too long to kill it's self.
If
> VNC loses, the end task window comes up instead of the warning dialog from
> VNC.

Fair enough.  I'm inclined to believe that the dialog is responsible - I've
removed it from any service-mode WinVNC process, and tried it under Win98
and it's now fine.  Previously, it would produce the Tray Icon dialog and
then, if you selected Wait or Cancel, would close down happily.

Very odd...

The next release of WinVNC will fix this buglet.

Cheers,

James "Wez" Weatherall
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