Robert Gracie
Robert at servicexp.com
Thu Apr 21 16:24:59 CDT 2005
John, I have used it many time without any problems. Works VERY well. Its under "Accessories >> Communications then Remote Desktop connection. You need to have your sister set "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer" in system properties on the remote tab. Robert Gracie -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:31 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: VNC client doesn't display You know, I tried this. What a mess it was. Have you ever managed to get it to work? It appears to use Messenger to notify the remote computer that assistance was needed, which never successfully connected. Also I think that this requires someone to "request" assistance. I need to be able to get in any time of day or night. The price for an upgrade to WinXP Pro is pretty steep but in the end I may need to have her do that. Then I can just do remote desktop. Of course if I can't get that to work for some reason, after spending $120 for the upgrade..... John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of accessd Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 2:48 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: VNC client doesn't display Hi John, If both computers are running XP then check out "remote assistance" in Windows Help. Regards Max -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby Sent: 21 April 2005 16:18 To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: [AccessD] OT: VNC client doesn't display I am trying to setup VNC to run on my sister-in-law's computer so that I can do tech support. Windows XP Home on her machine, Windows XP Pro on my laptop. I set up no-ip.com so that there is a dynamic tracking of her IP address. I set up the server on her machine and it seems to be running. I set up the firewall to do port forwarding to her machine I run the client on my laptop and attempt to connect to her machine. I have a couple of issues, but the immediate issue is that the client runs, doesn't give any error message, but also doesn't pop up the login screen, nor display anything at all. If I look in Task manager, VNC Client is running in the Processes tab but NOT in the Applications tab. If I try to start it again, connecting to her machine, ANOTHER copy of the VNC viewer opens, does not display, but appears in Task Manager. If I run it again, and connect to a client where I VNC in all the time, ANOTHER copy opens, displays the login screen, and allows me access to the desktop of my client. Thus it appears that it is something to do with connecting to the server on her machine. I run Sygate personal on both my Laptop and on her machine. It has been in place and functioning on both machines for months. IF I try to log in to her machine with the firewall running, I get a "can't find the host" kind of message from VNC, so I know that the VNC requests are getting out to the web, through the No-IP translation, back to her router, THROUGH her router, and are blocked by Sygate if it is running on her machine. That in itself is the other problem since I have VNC.EXE listed in Sygate as "allowed", but I need to tackle one problem at a time. I disable the Sygate router on her end and then the VNC client I am trying to connect just silently connects but will not display. Does anyone have a clue what is happening here? I have tried to find these symptoms on Google but come up empty. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com