VNC Beta V4.0b4 with ZoneAlarm Pro V4.5.530.000 on Win2K Pro

[Christopher Mc Carthy]

My advice would be to dump ZA, you're not the first person to have
connection problems which are often identified as being due to ZA
misbehaving.

Here's a recent article on home firewalls:
<http://www.securityfocus.com/printable/infocus/1750>  

FWIW my personal preference is for Kerio personal firewall
<http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html>.  I've just seen that there's a brand
new version out (v4, still free) - not sure what it's like but I can highly
recommend the previous version 2.15.

HTH

-----Original Message-----
Message: 23
Subject: VNC Beta V4.0b4 with ZoneAlarm Pro V4.5.530.000 on Win2K Pro
  Desktop 
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:56:14 -0000
From: "Robert McMordie" <Robert.McMordie "at" tandf.co.uk>
To: <vnc-list "at" realvnc.com>

Hi

I've also been having problems with RealVNC 4.0 and ZoneAlarm 4.5.530 (the
standard version, not Pro). 

I'm using Windows XP Professional SP1 with ZoneAlarm and the 4.0 beta 4
viewer-only package, and I'm trying to connect to a Win2K SP4 server running
4.0 beta 3. When I try to connect I get the "attempting to connect" box
displayed, and VNC gets no further. If I try to connect from my XP machine
to the Win2K machine using the Java viewer, or if I turn off ZoneAlarm,
everything works perfectly. 

Thanks

Robert McMordie