Re: Can't connect to windows Tightvnc server with any screen saver active

Hello Mark,

Do you run TightVNC as an application, or as a system service?

Please note that running it as an application may not allow it to access
desktops running under different user privileges, possibly including
screen savers.

-- 
Best Regards,
Constantin Kaplinsky
GlavSoft LLC


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Can't connect to windows Tightvnc server with any screen saver
active
Date: 	Thu, 06 May 2021 15:26:31 -0700
From: 	Mark Zelden
To: 	[email protected]
<[email protected]>



I had a hellava time figuring this one out.  I could connect to tightvnc
on windows
from home, but couldn't outside the house.  From home, even on public
internet I
could connect from my phone, or connect my laptop to my phone's hot
spot.  I would
leave the house, and it didn't connect.  From the error messages it
pointed to a
firewall issue.  I was playing with Norton Firewall settings for days,
even disabled
the firewall.  I though I had it nailed, but then after I was out of the
home for a while
I couldn't connect even with the firewall disabled.

Last night it finally hit me when I came home, tried it from my phone
and the connection
failed.  After I touched my mouse it worked.  I then set my screen saver
to 5 minutes
time to run some tests and prove it.   It doesn't matter what the screen
saver is, as
soon as it activates, logins are refused (last test was "bubbles").

It's not like all ports are closed because my daughter and friends play
minecraft from a
server I have on my PC all the time with a screen saver running and I
also have an FTP
server that was working fine.

I was probably a year behind from the current version, but earlier in
the week trying
to figure this out I installed 2.8.59 64-bit.   Windows version is Win10
Pro 64-bit 20H2.

Bug?  Known issue?  Some setting I don't know about that would keep the
ports from
being open with a screen saver active?


Regards, Mark






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