VNC versus Remote Desktop

[Philip Herlihy]

Can anyone throw any light on why a VNC connection between two machines
might hang, when a Remote Desktop connection behaves faultlessly?
Everything else is the same - except that the VNC connection is
initiated from the remote machine (listening client at my end).

Phil, London

PS - is this group really that quiet or is my newsserver catching a cold?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Can anyone throw any light on why a VNC connection between two machines
might hang, when a Remote Desktop connection behaves faultlessly?
Everything else is the same - except that the VNC connection is initiated
from the remote machine (listening client at my end).

Phil, London

PS - is this group really that quiet or is my newsserver catching a cold?

I have used both WinVNC and Remote Desktop extensively. I find that WinVNC
is a great product but that it's not particularly stable, certainly far less
so than Remote Desktop. I suggest you try some different VNC flavours than
the one you're currently using.

This newsgroup is quiet for the two reasons:
- The number of Win2000 machines is getting smaller each day.
- There aren't that many undocumented Win2000 problems left.

 

[3c273]

Which flavor of VNC? (TightVNC, UltraVNC, RealVNC, etc) I have found that it
is usually the winvnc service that crashes. You can remotely restart the
service through computer management or using a command line tool like
psservice.
Louis

 

[Phillip Windell]

This newsgroup is quiet for the two reasons:
- The number of Win2000 machines is getting smaller each day.
- There aren't that many undocumented Win2000 problems left.

Kind of ironic. When you finally get something perfected, nobody uses it
anymore and replaces it with something that need fixed.

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[Bob I]

Kind of ironic. When you finally get something perfected, nobody uses it
anymore and replaces it with something that need fixed.

Grin, how else to keep the repair industry in business?

 

[philipherlihy]

I have used both WinVNC and Remote Desktop extensively. I find that WinVNC
is a great product but that it's not particularly stable, certainly far less
so than Remote Desktop. I suggest you try some different VNC flavours than
the one you're currently using.

This newsgroup is quiet for the two reasons:
- The number of Win2000 machines is getting smaller each day.
- There aren't that many undocumented Win2000 problems left.

I'm using RealVNC. The server appears to be stable, and I use it on
other machines without a hiccup. What happens is that the connection
hangs and eventually drops. My guess is that it's a networking issue
rather than a VNC-server problem, and one which Remote Desktop seems
to be able to take in its stride.

Incidentally, my ISP is having real problems getting its newsservers
up and running - hence the comment about quiet. Silent, more like.

Phil

 

[Steve Winograd]

[snip]
Incidentally, my ISP is having real problems getting its newsservers
up and running - hence the comment about quiet. Silent, more like.

Phil

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Microsoft news groups.
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