Testing a connection to vnclistener

[James Weatherall]

Tristan,

You probably want to ask this program on a VB developers list, since what
you're asking has nothing to do with VNC as such, and is really "how to I
connect to a TCP port on another machine using VB".

Cheers,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Tristan Leask
> Sent: 16 February 2005 10:57
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Testing a connection to vnclistener
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have written a wrapper for winvnc so that a user doesn't have to
> configure it to connect to our listener.  With some users, 
> their IT guys
> have blocked lots of ports which thus stops us from using vnc to help
> them.  What I would like to do in our wrapper program, is to use the
> mswinsock control to try to connect to the listener first.
> 
> Has anyone got any example vb code to see if a connection can 
> be made to
> a vnc viewer at a particular address and port number?
> 
> Cheers all,
> 
> Tristan Leask
> 
> Software Developer
> Marine Software Ltd
> 
> trgl "at" marinesoftware.co.uk
> www.marinesoftware.co.uk
> 
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