strange behavior

[Marc]

My apologies but I thought it clear from the text that this is not a 
connectivity problem.

However,  your point about the 3.3 version may have hit the nail on the 
head as the version of realvnc on the one machine may be substantially 
older than the one that is choking.

I did not set the osxvnc server to only accept connections from 
localhost and did set it like others that are working without any 
problem,  but I will review the settings

Alex Nicolaou wrote:

> 
> I find that ARD works for me in practice as long as I work with a client
> which speaks 3.3 only. This can be a convenient solution that generally
> involves less setup on your Macs, though it is rather hard to get any
> support for it - around here, the view is that the protocol isn't adhered to
> (which is true, it isn't implemented to spec), while around Apple's RD list
> they focus more on Apple RD than on vncviewer.
> 
> alex
> 
> On 9/7/06, Marc <marc "at" arctic.net> wrote:
>> I am trying to connect to an OS X 10.4.x GS4 running 1.71 from PCs.
>> I have to have ARD running on 5900 and have OSX set to start on 5909
>> From an older PC running realvnc installed a year ago I can connect on
>> port 0 but not port 5909. On the ARD port it gives me the login screen
>> for vnc, I login and it starts writing the remote display when it
>> suddenly goes blank and says unknown message, but if I tell realvnc to
>> do it again, the remote screen succeeds and I am in.
>> I then go to the Mac and manually bring up OS X and confirm in the log
>> it is listening on port 5909. I also set up the java browser client for
>> port 5909
>> I can then access 5909 via browser from the same machine.
>> Now I go to another machine (PC - recent vintage) with realvnc 4.1.1 and
>> try the same two things. On the web browser I get: connection refused.
>> On the client I get the same kind of behavior on the ARD port (except
>> the screen looks like it is starting to fill in when it disappears with
>> the unknown meesage error) Of course on port 5909 with the viewer I get
>> nothing
>> I set OSXvnc to share connections (I have noticed that can be a real
>> problem. But I am at a loss as to what is going on and why this won;t
>> work when I have it working on so many other machines (even with ARD and
>> OSXVNC) I have port set to 5909 on autostart with display set to auto.
>> The only diff in this case is the OS X machine is runnign remote
>> profiles but I have OSX running as ladmin and the console logs show its
>> coming up fine. Firewall is not set on the box.
>> I have to assume that something is killing the server. I noticed there
>> were some comments about an issue to resolved in a future release, but I
>> don;t know that this would explain why it would apparently work on port
>> 5900 on one PC but not another....
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