authentication error

[Bill Gunter]

Positive. I'm RDP'd into the server and looking at the Application log
right now. The last success log was at 10:08 today and nothing has been
logged from WinVNC since, even though I've been trying constantly to vnc
into the machine.

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 11:52 -0500, James Weatherall wrote:
> 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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