Rusty Festa

I have just downloaded VNC for free and installed it on two of my boxes so I can control one of them without having to keep swapping keyboard, monitor, etc over all the time but my question is:

How do you reboot a remote system?

When I try this, I loose my VNC connection and can not reopen it until the other system has been logged in. Don't really want to set no boot up password

Cheers, Jon

SiDHEaD

you need to set up the vnc service. To do this run "winvnc -install" (i think - might be "winvnc -i").

This will mean that it will start before the computer has been logged in.

Andy

Rusty Festa

Thanks Andy. I have installed server and client on both machines (not a good idea to log them both into each other!) but it does not see to let me reconnect...

Having another go.
Jon

Rusty Festa

Cheers Andy - this VNC malarky is a piece of, er, cake

Rusty Festa

hyperlink if anyone is interested http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/index.html

Miles

Check out Dameware's RC utility. This allows you to remotely push out the server service automatically (as long as you have admin rights on the target machine) and then automatically remove the server software when you are finished. It is such a cool bit of software. Highly recommended.

mark_h

One of our servers wouldn't let us VNC to it until someone had logged in locally too. The VNC service was running, and we'd get the password prompt, but it would always fail until after a local user had logged in.

In the end, the solution was to use the shortcuts to remove VNC as a service, then put it back, and reset the password. I think the problem came after we upgraded the VNC server software without uninstalling the previous version.

chiark

The when you install the VNC service on the server machine you must give it a session password, otherwise it'll wait for someone to log in locally.

Fantastic bit of free software

shunty

as Miles has stated.....Dameware, best desktop/server etc admin software I have come across, even integrates with exchange & AD.
The ONLY thing I'm surprised it hasn't got is the remote dial up option like pcanywhere.....I spoke to support people in usa & they said they plan to iclude it in a later release
you can also modify the .ini file & get undectable remote access, no systray icon....very useful

shunty

scoob_dood

I've been using XP's Remote Desktop, and Terminal Services on 2000 and found them much better than VNC.

- Jon