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[MichaelLashinsky@drugplastics.com]

Life without Users???  Can you say "Unemployed?"


Have a Good Day,

Michael L.


                                                                                                                             
                    Richard Clegg                                                                                            
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Scott, try looking at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/winvnc.html

There is a way to stop the local user being able to disable VNC.  It's a
bit
of a registry tweak, and needs to be done per machine, but that would seem
to solve the problem.

To disable the icon as well, for the best of both worlds, you would need to
create the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3
"DisableTrayIcon"=dword:00000001

Hope this helps.  Wouldn't life be so much easier without users fiddling
with things they shouldn't?  Or just life without users ... bliss!

Rich
Helpdesk Operator
PCG Systems Ltd

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Yarbrough [mailto:scotty "at" tetercon.com]
Sent: 21 February 2002 21:43
To: 'vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com'
Subject: Hidden icon


I saw some of the discussion in the archives regarding hiding the VNC
icon..
I didn't see if anyone had a good method..

What I am needing to do on the network here isn't necessarily hiding the
VNC
icon to keep users from knowing its being used, but to keep them from
CLOSING THE PROGRAM..

We have a remote office, and have been successfully using VNC since January
to maintain two servers and various other workstations at that location..
However we have a couple users who habitually turn off the VNC server and
then walk away and do not restart the service (and don't bother to even
logoff either, but that's another issue).

I'm looking for a way to either 1)prevent them from closing it, or 2) if
necessary hiding the icon so they think its already closed and leave it
alone.

Privacy issues with the icon hidden aren't really a concern since #1 we
don't have the time or the desire to watch users, we have enough to keep us
more than busy, and #2 the company computer use policy addresses computer
usage and privacy concerns anyway.

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