Problems with NT, WinVNC and bginfo

[James Weatherall]

Kevin,

VNC 3.3.7 is very very old.  I'd recommend updating to VNC 4.

UltraVNC is based on the older 3.3.4 release for the most part, if I
remember correctly.

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beaumont, Kevin [mailto:Kevin.Beaumont "at" princes.co.uk] 
> Sent: 14 January 2005 12:52
> To: 'James Weatherall'
> Subject: RE: Problems with NT, WinVNC and bginfo
> 
> Wez,
> 
> RealVNC 3.3.7.
> 
> NT4 SP6a.
> 
> We tried Ultr "at" VNC, which doesn't have the same problem, 
> bizarrely.  I see in
> 2002 a code fix went into RealVNC for bginfo/wallpaper issues 
> by yourself it
> appears.
> 
> To be honest I haven't had time to investigate it properly yet.
> 
> Ta
> 
> Kevin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Weatherall [mailto:jnw "at" realvnc.com] 
> Sent: 14 January 2005 12:39
> To: 'Beaumont, Kevin'; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Problems with NT, WinVNC and bginfo
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> Which version of VNC Server are you running?
> 
> Which version of Windows NT are you running?
> 
> Do you experience this behaviour if you don't use a wallpaper 
> (i.e. if you
> disable bginfo)?
> 
> Do you experience this behaviour if you use a standard 
> wallpaper in place of
> bginfo?
> 
> Do you experience this behaviour if you use an Active Desktop 
> wallpaper in
> place of bginfo?
> 
> Sorry to have to respond to a question with so many questions!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> > [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Beaumont, Kevin
> > Sent: 14 January 2005 10:52
> > To: 'vnc-list "at" realvnc.com'
> > Subject: Problems with NT, WinVNC and bginfo
> > 
> > Morning all,
> > 
> > Sorry for joining and jumping straight in with a problem - I 
> > promise I'll
> > hang around ;)
> > 
> > Anyway - we have a few NT servers running RealVNC and bginfo 
> > (BG info sets
> > server information as the wallpaper).
> > 
> > The RemoveWallpaper reg key is set to DWORD 0.
> > 
> > Now, the problem;
> > 
> > - If we connect to the server with VNC, the wallpaper is 
> > still bginfo.  We
> > then disconnect, the wallpaper is changing BACK to the 
> > standard NT wallpaper
> > on the server, instead of staying as bginfo's.
> > 
> > The RemoveWallpaper key is fine, and we don't see this 
> > problem on Windows XP
> > etc.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Kevin
> > 
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