VNC Authentication failed

[William Hooper]

Joe Irrera said:
> All PC are running Windows 98.
> I've set a password in a VNC server. I have no problem logging into that
> server from another workstation using the VNC Viewer. However when I add
> the
> registry DWord "AllowProperties" with a value of zero in the above server,
> when I try to log in from the same Viewer I get the message "VNC
> Authentication Failed".
> If I then change the above DWord value to 1 I can again log in
> sucessfully.
> Any ideas?

Have you set the password using the "Show Default Properties" dialog?

As the docs say, "Note that this [AllowProperties] stops all global
per-user settings. A valid password must therefore be in force before
using this setting, generally in the local default-user setting."

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William Hooper