VNC-List digest, Vol 1 #1139 - 29 msgs

[Christopher Mc Carthy]

Where I work we have French and English PCs and keyboards, and I was
pulling my hair out trying to figure out why my password would not
work...  The simple solution I came to was to choose a password using
letters that appeared on the same place on both keyboards (not too
difficult as there is not that much variation between AZERTY and
QWERTY).

Now thanks to the list I (half) understand the technical reasons behind
this.

I suppose there's not much chance of a fix? (i.e. whereby VNC uses your
password and not the local ascii codes).

Cheers

Christopher

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew McCall <andrew.mccall "at" oldham.gov.uk>
To: "'James Weatherall'" <jnw "at" realvnc.com>, vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: RE: Able to connect, but unable to log in to Windows server... 
  ( U pdate)
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:39:21 -0000

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Hi Again,

> Check that the system keyboard layout does not differ from the one you
are
> setting when trying to log in to the system - if they differ for some 
> reason then the VNC Server will translate incoming keys to local key
> events using the system-wide mapping and the logon app will then
> retranslate them to the wrong thing, in this case screwing up the "#"
key
> ("Hash", not UK pound, which is "#" :) )

This was indeed the problem.

I think for some reason Windows had changed back to using all US keymaps
and
language settings, so obviously the keymaps between the VNC client and
viewer were different.

At first when I changed the server keymap I was convinced that the
problem
hadn't gone away - but I realised I had actually set the password with
the
US keymap, so the password wasn't what I was typing!

Its working now anyway, thanks for the help.

Andrew McCall