Configuration HELP PLEASE!

[Alex K. Angelopoulos]

Too funny - I'm a couple of miles from your guys' office (assuming you're the
chemicals Reilly in Indianapolis).


I haven't done a lot of playing around with this, but let's map out the desired
behavior you want.  You can only do *part* of what you want to do with a
standard VNC server, unfortunately.

WHAT YOU WANT
+ If no one at all is logged on, you want to get in automatically.
+ If someone *is* logged on, you want them to see that you are trying to
connect, then allow them time to reject the connection.
+ If they "neither confirm nor deny", you want it to timeout allowing you to
connect to the system.


WHAT YOU CAN DO - AUTOACCEPT WHEN NO ONE LOGGED ON
You can have different "default" and user behavior.  The default will apply when
no one is logged on; the settings for this are under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\Default

If you have per-user settings in effect, then you can have a different
QuerySetting value for the users from the one under here.  The user settings
normally go under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ORL\WinVNC3
so if you set it to "Query" while the machine default behavior is "Accept", your
users will be able to accept/reject connections and a system not logged on will
automatically accept them.

WHAT YOU CAN'T - CHANGING THE TIMEOUT RESULT TO ACCEPT
This is apparently hardwired into the WinVNC code, apparently in vncserver.cpp.
The default assumption is "false" for accepting the connections.  It *could* be
reversed if you did a custom compilation of the code - not something to try if
you aren't comfortable with C++.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Hawkins, Sara" <shawkins "at" reillyind.com>
To: <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>
Sent: Monday, 2002-06-17 11:06
Subject: Configuration HELP PLEASE!


> Hi ALL:
>
> I have a question that I need help with.
>
> We have decided that we are wanting to give our users a chance to reject our
> connections and to know that we are connecting.
>
> I've went all through the QuerySetting and tried them all.  I like the
> prompt box, but the default is deny.  This is not a good option if the user
> is away from their desk and we need in their computer.  Also, with those
> setting if no one is logged in it AutoRejects.  If I set it to 2 or 1 it
> doesn't give the prompt box and it just Auto Connects.  Is there possibly
> another setting that I might use to either do a Query, Query, Accept?  Or
> another way I can give my users a dialog box allowing them to reject us if
> we are set to 2 or 1?
>
> All help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Sara
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