Substitute vncviewer

The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of
OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion
for a substitute vnc viewer that might work?

[Rex Dieter]

[e-mail] wrote:
> The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of
> OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion
> for a substitute vnc viewer that might work?

Without knowing what the problem/incompatibility is, it's hard to speculate.

-- Rex

[Scot L. Harris]

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:26 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of
> > OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion
> > for a substitute vnc viewer that might work?
>
> Without knowing what the problem/incompatibility is, it's hard to speculate.
>
> -- Rex

Here's one wild a** guess, find out what port vncserver uses on the
Apple system.  Normally vnc uses ports from 5900 up.  Typically in
vncviewer you need to specify the port by appending :1 or similar number
to the IP address (or name) where :1 would use port 5901, :0 would be
port 5900, :2 would be port 5902, etc.

The other possible problem is that one or the other system has a
firewall blocking vnc.

Additional info on the error being seen and details on how you are
invoking vncviewer would help diagnose the problem.

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:10:42PM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:26 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > [e-mail] wrote:
> > > The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of
> > > OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion
> > > for a substitute vnc viewer that might work?
> >
> > Without knowing what the problem/incompatibility is, it's hard to speculate.
> >
> > -- Rex
>
> Here's one wild a** guess, find out what port vncserver uses on the
> Apple system.  Normally vnc uses ports from 5900 up.  Typically in
> vncviewer you need to specify the port by appending :1 or similar number
> to the IP address (or name) where :1 would use port 5901, :0 would be
> port 5900, :2 would be port 5902, etc.
>
> The other possible problem is that one or the other system has a
> firewall blocking vnc.
>
> Additional info on the error being seen and details on how you are
> invoking vncviewer would help diagnose the problem.

Thsi is a good suggestion and I will have to ofllow though on
that. But I would accept any known other vnclient name in the
meantime. There is a OS X vnc client called Chicken of VNC that
does work.

But I will collect the error information and post it.

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:10:42PM -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 12:26 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > [e-mail] wrote:
> > > The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of
> > > OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion
> > > for a substitute vnc viewer that might work?
> >
> > Without knowing what the problem/incompatibility is, it's hard to speculate.
> >
> > -- Rex
>
> Here's one wild a** guess, find out what port vncserver uses on the
> Apple system.  Normally vnc uses ports from 5900 up.  Typically in
> vncviewer you need to specify the port by appending :1 or similar number
> to the IP address (or name) where :1 would use port 5901, :0 would be
> port 5900, :2 would be port 5902, etc.
>
> The other possible problem is that one or the other system has a
> firewall blocking vnc.
>
> Additional info on the error being seen and details on how you are
> invoking vncviewer would help diagnose the problem.

Ok invoking vncviewer pandora01 returns:

VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built Aug  4 2005 06:43:41
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.

Fri Mar 10 21:35:02 2006
 CConn:       connected to host pandora01 port 5900
 CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.889
 CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.8
> > > > At this point a window opens asking for a passwd. I enter a

passwd . Then the following lines appear.
Fri Mar 10 21:35:07 2006
 TXImage:     Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 16.
 CConn:       Using pixel format depth 6 (8bpp) rgb222
 CConn:       Using ZRLE encoding

a screen image opens filling with random colors. The screen image
disappears and the following lines are printed on the console screen.
At the same time a window opens with the error message : unknown
message type. I click ok and the application quits. 
Fri Mar 10 21:35:27 2006
 CConn:       Throughput 6263 kbit/s - changing to hextile encoding
 CConn:       Throughput 6263 kbit/s - changing to full colour
 CConn:       Using pixel format depth 16 (16bpp) little-endian rgb565
 CConn:       Using hextile encoding
unknown message type 255

unknown message.

Any ideas about what is wrong? No error messages appear in the
messages file.
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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[William Hooper]

[e-mail] wrote:
> The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of
> OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion
> for a substitute vnc viewer that might work? --

According to the folks at RealVNC, the problem is that Apple's server
isn't compatible.

http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2006-March/054353.html

[Myth User]

Look here:

http://www.redstonesoftware.com/vnc.html

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From: "William Hooper" 
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Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: Substitute vncviewer
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of
> > OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion
> > for a substitute vnc viewer that might work? --
>
> According to the folks at RealVNC, the problem is that Apple's server
> isn't compatible.
>
> http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2006-March/054353.html
>
> -- 
> William Hooper
>
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 03:22:47PM -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> [e-mail] wrote:
> > The program vncviewer will not connect to the Apple Remote Server of
> > OS X which is their built in VNC server. Does anyone have a suggestion
> > for a substitute vnc viewer that might work? --
>
> According to the folks at RealVNC, the problem is that Apple's server
> isn't compatible.
>
> http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2006-March/054353.html
>
> --

Look I appreciate any help I can get and the link above is
interesting. However the people posting in that interchange seem not
to know that there is a OS X compatible vnc-server called OSvnc (not
from apple) that does work with vncviewer. So you ask why not use that
server. Good question, I think we should.

So I assume there are no vnc client programs around that might be
compatible with Apple Remote Desktop. Such is life.
As I said there is a compatible client that works in OS X (and maybe
in Windows) called Chicken of the VNC. But no Linux version that I can
find.

[Steffen Kluge]

On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 15:59 -0600, [e-mail] wrote:
> So I assume there are no vnc client programs around that might be
> compatible with Apple Remote Desktop. Such is life.

As others have said, it's not the client that needs replacing, but the
server. The Apple one is broken in several regards. Just disable it and
get the excellent free OSXvnc from versiontracker.

Cheers
Steffen.