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

Hi Constantin,

Thanks. I am running it as an application. I didn't think about that issue. It probably

explains another annoying thing I found that if Norton puts a pop up in the windows

message area (sometimes it puts little ads or other messages there) I completely lose

access to any keys, cursor etc. I can sign in and see the desktop but am essentially locked

out like I'm in view only mode. I only end up wanting to use TightVNC on my home machine

once or twice a year so I never had it installed as a service. But now that I think about it,

prior to win10 a few years back, I had very old version of VNC installed and it was installed

as a service and I never had any problems when I needed to use it a few times a year when

I was out of town.

Regards,

Mark

-------- Original Message --------

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

saver active

From: Constantin Kaplinsky <[email protected] >

Date: Wed, May 12, 2021 1:42 am

To: [email protected]

Cc: Mark Zelden <[email protected] >

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.

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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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