From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:36 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1728 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Thursday 16 October 2008 Number 1728 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Recommendations for remote control program? : Kris Steenhaut 2 Re: Recommendations for remote control program? : Peter Moylan 3 Re: Recommendations for remote control program? : Kris Steenhaut **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:02:48 +0200 From: Kris Steenhaut Subject: Re: Recommendations for remote control program? Peter Moylan ha scritto: > > Personally, I found that you hardly even need to read the INF and > README to get going. The only non-obvious things that you need to know > about are > > 1. You have to install the "VNC server" on the machine you want to > control, and you have to leave it running all the time. (In OS/2 you > can do this by dragging from the server exe to the Startup folder. I'm > not sure how you do it on a Mac.) The server installation script > leaves something on your desktop that you can run to set the password, > etc. > > 2. You install the client on the machine that you need to do the > controlling from. > > 3. When you run the client, you're asked what you want to connect to, > and there's a special syntax for this. In my case, I specify > 192.168.1.5:0, where the first bit is the IP address of the machine > that I want to control, and the ":0" at the end is a compulsory > side-effect of a convention that's used in Unix. Just add the ":0" > without bothering to wonder what it means. > So, what i did was: 1. Installed Vine server onto the MAC. Looks to me it's working all right there . IP address is 192.168.2.15 2. Prior to that Installed PMVNC en VNCview onto eCS. 3. Entering the address 192.168.2.15:0 into VNCview renders the error message: http://www.taartenbakkerij.eu/bestanden/reason.bmp What now? -- Groeten uit Gent, Kris ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:20:29 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Recommendations for remote control program? Kris Steenhaut wrote: > Peter Moylan ha scritto: >> >> Personally, I found that you hardly even need to read the INF and >> README to get going. The only non-obvious things that you need to >> know about are >> >> 1. You have to install the "VNC server" on the machine you want to >> control, and you have to leave it running all the time. (In OS/2 you >> can do this by dragging from the server exe to the Startup folder. >> I'm not sure how you do it on a Mac.) The server installation script >> leaves something on your desktop that you can run to set the >> password, etc. >> >> 2. You install the client on the machine that you need to do the >> controlling from. >> >> 3. When you run the client, you're asked what you want to connect to, >> and there's a special syntax for this. In my case, I specify >> 192.168.1.5:0, where the first bit is the IP address of the machine >> that I want to control, and the ":0" at the end is a compulsory >> side-effect of a convention that's used in Unix. Just add the ":0" >> without bothering to wonder what it means. >> > So, what i did was: > > 1. Installed Vine server onto the MAC. Looks to me it's working all > right there . IP address is 192.168.2.15 > > 2. Prior to that Installed PMVNC en VNCview onto eCS. > > 3. Entering the address 192.168.2.15:0 into VNCview renders the error > message: > > http://www.taartenbakkerij.eu/bestanden/reason.bmp > > What now? > I've never seen that error message; it has the flavour of an "out of memory" error, which looks strange. I hope it makes sense to someone else. One obvious question: are the server and client machines both on the /same/ 192.168.2.* subnet? It's possible to connect to a non-local machine (and in fact I've just done it, to check my two computers at home from a different town), but only if you've set up the NAT correctly in your router. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:42:36 +0200 From: Kris Steenhaut Subject: Re: Recommendations for remote control program? Peter Moylan ha scritto: > Kris Steenhaut wrote: >> >> http://www.taartenbakkerij.eu/bestanden/reason.bmp >> >> What now? >> > I've never seen that error message; it has the flavour of an "out of > memory" error, which looks strange. I hope it makes sense to someone > else. > > One obvious question: are the server and client machines both on the > /same/ 192.168.2.* subnet? It's possible to connect to a non-local > machine (and in fact I've just done it, to check my two computers at > home from a different town), but only if you've set up the NAT > correctly in your router. > Of course. Router is 192.168.2.1 and the eCS machine is 192.168.2.10. And I'm ftp-ing using Netdrive 7/7 and 24/24 between both machines (and 2 other at *.11 and *.12) btw, if I would install the vnc server onto another eCS machine (192.168.2.12) while the viewer is at 192.168.2.10, is it supposed to be functional too? -- Groeten uit Gent, Kris ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------