vnc connection to restricted XP accounts

[Paul Kaplan]

I guess my question about workaround was related to running VNC as a service 
not a program.  Can one workaround the Fast User Switching problem w/ VNC 
running as a service.

Regarding alternative VNC servers I was thinking of open source options such 
as OpenVNC.
Paul

On Wednesday 11 April 2007 8:51:43 am James Weatherall wrote:
> Paul,
>
> The workaround for VNC Free Edition is to log out the current user before
> logging on another one, so that the console session is always session zero.
>
> RealVNC is the company name and VNC the product, so I'm not sure what you
> mean by "Is the problem unique to RealVNC...".  If you mean "Do VNC
> Enterprise & Personal Editions handle Fast User Switching?" then the answer
> is yes, they do!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wez @ RealVNC Ltd
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com
> > [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Paul Kaplan
> > Sent: 11 April 2007 11:32
> > To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> > Subject: Re: vnc connection to restricted XP accounts
> >
> > I'll have to check.  If this is the case, is there a work
> > around?  Is the
> > problem unique to RealVNC or do other VNC servers have the
> > same problem?
> > Paul
> >
> > On Wednesday 11 April 2007 6:05:38 am James Weatherall wrote:
> > > Paul,
> > >
> > > Are you sure it's not just that you're using Fast User
> >
> > Switching, i.e. it's
> >
> > > not specific to "Limited" accounts 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 Paul Kaplan
> > > > Sent: 10 April 2007 23:24
> > > > To: michaelkintzios "at" gmail.com
> > > > Cc: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> > > > Subject: Re: vnc connection to restricted XP accounts
> > > >
> > > > It is started a system service.  What happens is that when I
> > > > attempt to login
> > > > to a restricted user account, the connection is dropped.
> > > > Paul
> > > >
> > > > On Tuesday 10 April 2007 3:57:38 pm Mick wrote:
> > > > > On Tuesday 10 April 2007 12:28, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> > > > > > I have realvnc running as a service on XP SP2, and it
> > > >
> > > > works fine as long
> > > >
> > > > > > as I try to connect to user accounts that have
> > > >
> > > > administrative privileges.
> > > >
> > > > > > When I try to access restricted accounts, my remote
> > > >
> > > > connection gets
> > > >
> > > > > > terminated. This is true whether I connect directly or
> > > >
> > > > through java.
> > > >
> > > > > > How can I get access to the restricted accounts since
> > > >
> > > > these are the ones
> > > >
> > > > > > I'm often needing to troubleshoot remotely.
> > > > >
> > > > > During installation, have you ticked each of the boxes
> > > >
> > > > which refer to the
> > > >
> > > > > VNC Server System Service?  Have you set up an
> > > >
> > > > authentication password?
> > > >
> > > > > If not, uninstall and reinstall the VNC server as a
> > > >
> > > > service, set up a
> > > >
> > > > > password and reboot the machine and check that it has been
> > > >
> > > > registered and
> > > >
> > > > > started as a system service.
> > > > >
> > > > > HTH.
> > > >
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