On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:59:06 -0500, ERACC wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:22:34 GMT
> steve <scjharris@splat.spam.bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:58:14 -0300, Snowbat wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:51:29 +0000, steve wrote:
>> >
>>
>> Thanks a lot, now up and running with tightVNC on Vista.
>
> I am glad to see that this works, Steve. I have steered folks away from
> TightVNC for Vista as the TightVNC web site is claiming it "has issues".
>
> http://www.tightvnc.com/faq.html#vista
>
> I would like to see you follow-up on this after a week or two to let us know
> how it is going.
>

ERACC,

It has been more than a week or two for a follow-up, but I've been on
holidays in between!

Initially I found I agreed that TightVNC with Vista "has issues". However,
one change to Vista setup and I've found it works well enough for my
purposes, albiet not quite perfect. The one remaining slight annoyance is
that the Vista screen is just slightly larger than the Linux window that
contains it.

The change I made to Vista was to turn off "User Account Control" in the
Windows Security Centre. With that turned on (default) Vista would always
be asking me if I really wanted to run certain programs that I always ran
whenever I tried to launch them. When I told Vista I knew what I was doing
(and, under my breath, that I was sick of it asking me), the TightVNC
window would close on Linux. Turning off "User Account Control" solved
both those problems.

By the way, I also found turning it off "User Account Control" also made
Vista behave much more logically. With it on certain programs would tell
me their log files etc were in c:\Program files\{name of program}, but
they were not there. I eventually found that the reality was Vista was
secretly putting them in c:\Users\{user
name}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files. Yet there were other
programs where such files could be found in c:\Program files\{name of
program}. With "User Account Control" turned off all such files could then
be found in c:\Program files\{name of program}.

Regards,


Steve

Hi Steve,

<SNIP>
running with tightVNC on Vista.
<SNIP>

Have you tried running rdesktop? You may get better performance and
sound support.

urpmi rdesktop

man rdesktop

Good luck,
G.C.