Working with VNC

[amerar]

Hi All,

I'm trying to work remotely on my PC. I have RealVNC installed. It
works, sometimes. About 70% of the time I get a black screen with only
a white dot as a mouse indicator. Some posts suggested checking my
MTU. So, I ran a utility and changed it from 1514 to 1492. So far,
that is not helping.

I also am using Remote Desktop over SSH using a utility called
Tunnelier with an SSH deamon running on my Windows XP box. That also
aborts very often with some MAC error code, which I can find no
documentation on.

I've tried closing all Spyware checking, Virus scanning, etc. But no
luck......

Can anyone offer any suggestions? I'd like to get a stable connection
going.

Thanks!

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

What kind of broadband link do you have? Personally I have a cable ISP and
use the default router MTU of 1500 and have no issues whatsoever running RDP
through a SSH tunnel using the Tunnelier client.

Other than that what is the exact error message you get when RDP chokes
through the SSH tunnel?

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[Kenneth Porter]

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I'm trying to work remotely on my PC. I have RealVNC installed.

I had a black screen connecting with UltraVNC to a RealVNC server. Try
running UltraVNC at both ends. That cured my problem. It's still slow
compared to RDP, but it lets me use a dongle-based app that refuses to see
its dongle under RDP. (It's my company's app, so I'm not violating any
license.) VNC also allows one to scale a dialog designed for 1280x1024 to
fit on a laptop screen that's only 800 pixels high. I just with it weren't
so slow.

 

[Sooner Al [MVP]]

Installing the UltraVNC XP video drivers on the server PC *AND* disabling
the rendering of the server PC desktop wallpaper might help the speed issue.
I do agree that VNC (any flavor) is a bit slower than RDP...

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