authentication error

[James Weatherall]

Bill,

Are you sure that you're looking at the Application Event Log of the
computer on which VNC server is running, and not the log on a domain
controller?

The Application Event Log will contain a number of Information messages from
WinVNC4, starting "Connections: accepted" or "Connections: closed", for each
connection that is made to the server.

Success Audits will be logged either to a domain controller, or to the
computer on which VNC Server is running, depending on your network setup.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Gunter [mailto:bgunter "at" arcsystems.com] 
> Sent: 16 August 2005 17:46
> To: James Weatherall
> Cc: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: authentication error
> 
> James, 
> 
> Nothing is logged to the application log when I get this 
> error. The only
> entries with a source of WinVNC are the Success Audits when the
> connection actually works. When it doesn't work and produces 
> the error,
> nothing gets logged.
> 
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 11:36 -0500, James Weatherall wrote:
> > Bill,
> > 
> > In this instance there will be messages logged to the Application
> > Event Log 
> > of the server on which VNC Server Enterprise Edition for Windows is
> > running. 
> > The error message will originate from WinVNC4 and will indicate the
> > reason 
> > for the authentication failure.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. 
> >  
> > 
> > > -----Original Message----- 
> > > From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com  
> > > [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Bill Gunter 
> > > Sent: 16 August 2005 16:50 
> > > To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com 
> > > Subject: authentication error 
> > >  
> > > I've been testing out realvnc enterprise edition and am having an 
> > > intermittent problem. I'm trying to connect with the linux  
> > > E4_1_7 client 
> > > to a Win2k server running the same version of the server with
> > Windows 
> > > authentication. I get this error: 
> > >  
> > >  SelectSocke: An authentication error occurred.  See the server
> > error 
> > > log for 
> > >               details. 
> > >  
> > > I can find nothing in the server error log (I assume this is  
> > > the windows 
> > > event log). It's accepting my password because when I 
> deliberately 
> > > mistype it I get this error: 
> > >  
> > >   SelectSocke: Either the username was not recognised, or the
> > password 
> > > was 
> > >               incorrect 
> > >  
> > > Any help would be appreciated. I want to purchase 
> licenses for the 
> > > enterprise version but cannot if we can't solve this problem. 
> > >  
> > > Thanks. 
> > >  
> > > --  
> > > Bill Gunter  
> > > Assistant Director of Information Systems  
> > >    
> > > ARC Systems  
> > > P: 512.358.5377  
> > > F: 512.892.5552  
> > > <www.arcsystems.com> 
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