Locking the server's display

[James Weatherall]

Gary,

It's not possible to blank the screen in the way you describe without
risking damage to your monitor and/or graphics card, because of the way that
user input affects monitor power saving.

VNC Enterprise & Personal Editions currently have basic support for an
alternative approach that avoids the risk of damaging the any hardware.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of John Aldrich
> Sent: 02 February 2006 18:27
> To: 'Gary Sieker'; scott "at" genevish.org
> Cc: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Locking the server's display
> 
> I Sit corrected. How about "TightVNC and RealVNC do not offer 
> a way to do
> that"? I believe it has been discussed, but the feeling (from 
> memory) seems
> to be that it creates problems on the system.... 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Sieker [mailto:gsieker "at" mail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:04 PM
> To: scott "at" genevish.org
> Cc: JAldrich "at" covista.com; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Locking the server's display
> 
> 
> Scott & John,
> 
> Actually, it can be done (UltraVNC offers it, IIRC), by having windows
> tell the monitor to go to stand-by during the connection.  Maybe the
> folks at real vnc could entertain adding this as a feature.  It may
> already be on their wish-list, I don't know...
> 
> -Gary
> 
> 
> 
> No. There is no way to do what you want on Windows. Remote 
> Desktop creates a
> new "virtual desktop" much the way that Unix/Linux does. VNC 
> simply displays
> the existing desktop remotely (for Microsoft Windows 
> products.) This is
> pretty much a FAQ and probably ought to be in the FAQs if 
> it's not. :-)
> 	John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at"
> realvnc.com]On
> Behalf Of Scott Genevish
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:27 PM
> To: Scott Genevish
> Cc: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Re: Locking the server's display
> 
> 
> Does anyone know the answer for this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Scott
> 
> 
> On Jan 21, 2006, at 5:55 AM, Scott Genevish wrote:
> 
> > I am connecting to my work computer from home and it's working  
> > great with one problem.  When I connect to my work computer, it's  
> > display shows everything I am doing.  This is different than  
> > Windows Remote Desktop, which keeps the local display locked.
> >
> > Is there a way to avoid this?  I know I can set VNC to lock the  
> > keyboard and mouse locally, but what abut the screen 
> itself?  Would  
> > the Enterprise version, with WIndows authentication, work?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Scott Genevish
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