vnc woes (Windows -> Linux)

[James Weatherall]

Yann,

Having a large desktop will NOT cause the message "Connection rejected by
user" to be returned.  Instead, you will usually get the (less helpful)
"Connection closed unexpectedly" message, and an error in your Windows
Application Event Log.

The problem Yann is seeing will be resolved in VNC Free Edition 4.1 (which
may already be released by the time you read this...).  His problem is NOT
related to KJ's problem at all!

Cheers,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Yann Renard
> Sent: 03 March 2005 09:09
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: vnc woes (Windows -> Linux)
> 
> kynn "at" panix.com wrote:
> > Hi.  I'm trying to get a vnc connection going between a 
> Windows-based
> > vnc4 server at work and a (Debian) Linux-based xvnc4viewer client at
> > home.
> > 
> > Once enter the password the connection to the server on the Windows
> > host is successfully established, but it dies immediately with the
> > error "Connection rejected by user" reported client-side.  I assume
> > that the reference to "user" in the error message means that it was
> > the client-side machine that killed the connection.  I figured this
> > may have something to do with my home machine's firewall, but when I
> > look at my log files I see no mention of any connection attempts
> > rejected by the firewall at times even remotely matching those of my
> > login attempts.  How can I troubleshoot this problem?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > kj
> 
> Hi ! I have experienced immediate disconnections that looks quite
> similar to your problem. The reason was the size and color 
> depth of the
> desktop : 3200x1200x24b. Turning color depth to 8b solved the problem
> for me, I supposed this was some kind of memory allocation error or
> something similar. Hope this helps,
> 
> Regards,
> Yann
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