Re: Compatibility issue with MacOS X VNC clients? (was: Slightly OT - Best MAC OS X VNC?)

For feature requests and bug reports RC15 RC16. Please use the forum at http://forum.ultravnc.net/

Happy it's solved. Thanks Rudi for pin-pointing this one before I even 
have time to look at the code...

So it looks like UltraVNC is still VNC compatible after all... ;)
I knew it was necessary a bug as we -of course- still fully support the 
"standard" RFB protocole.

The only things we have changed in the Ultra RFB implementation (to my 
knowledge...)
- We use 2 different minor version numbers (4 and 6) to be able to 
detect if we are dealing with UltraVNC on both sides
(so we a viewer knows if the server supports FT and MSLogon for instance).
But it doesn't prevent UltraVNC to be compatible with others "standard" 
VNC distributions as Ultra still uses major version number 3.
That's right we could presumably have used some new rfbEncoding 
extensions instead but now it's done...
- We've added a bunch of RFB protocole extensions to support:
FileTransfer
Chat
Cache Encoding
Local Cursor
Server Scaling
SingleWindow
...

We don't pretend these extensions to become part of the standard RFB 
specs (even if we would be honored if that was the case).
We've just added them because we needed them.
The important thing is that UltraVNC can communicate with other VNC 
distribution at the standard level.
And that's actually the case.

Sam




Georges Berenger a écrit :

> That works great! I have tried it only for a few minutes, but 
> everything seemed to work just fine!
> Everything worked just as smoothly as it does on XP.
>  
> Thanks a bunch! Go ahead: check-in that fix!
>  
> Danke sehr!
> -georges
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *De 
> Vos Rudi
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:32 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [Ultravnc-list] Compatibility issue with MacOS X VNC 
> clients? (was: Slightly OT - Best MAC OS X VNC?)
>
> Updated server available
> http://uvnc.com/RC204
>
> Please check if this fix the issue
>
> Georges Berenger schreef:
>
>> For feature requests and bug reports RC15 RC16. Please use the forum 
>> at http://forum.ultravnc.net/
>>
>> Doing some testing with RC20.2, and I did not find any Mac OS X Client
>> that would work with winvnc. Is anyone able to connect to winvnc using a
>> viewer running on Mac OS X?
>>
>> COTV 2.0b2 gave me those errors before closing the connection (one line,
>> one attempt. Removed duplicates):
>>
>> Unknown rectangle encoding 436807237 -> exiting
>> Unknown message type 81
>> Unknown rectangle encoding 30594778 -> exiting
>> Unknown rectangle encoding 447262148 -> exiting
>> Unknown message type -75
>> Unknown message type -102
>> Unknown message type 55
>> Unknown message type 67
>> Unknown message type -36
>> Unknown message type 33
>> Unknown message type -39
>> Unknown message type 85
>>
>> I tried a few other VNC Viewers on MacOS X, and they all failed in
>> different ways (freeze, etc).
>> COTV is the only one that got me to see a fully loaded screen, if the
>> Mac's mouse is outside the screen. As soon as the mouse goes over the
>> screen, or as soon as the screen changes in any way, I get one of the
>> errors above.
>>
>> On the other hand, the same COTV worked fine with TightVNC server, so it
>> seems to me that the problem could come from Ultr@VNC.
>>
>> Any comment? Isn't Ultr@VNC supposed to work with any VNC client?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -georges
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pete
>> Gordon
>> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:20 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Ultravnc-list] Slightly OT - Best MAC OS X VNC?
>>
>> For feature requests and bug reports RC15 RC16. Please use the forum at
>> http://forum.ultravnc.net/
>>
>> OSX VNC   redstonesoftware.com
>>
>> Is the only server that I am aware of.
>>
>> COTV  (Chicken of the VNC) is the best client I am aware of.
>>
>> Pete Gordon
>>
>> On Mar 10, 2005, at 2:48 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> > For feature requests and bug reports RC15 RC16. Please use the forum
>> > at http://forum.ultravnc.net/
>> >
>> > Question for the list:
>> >
>> > I use REAL VNC server on Solaris and Ultra VNC server/client on Win
>> > 2k/XP.  I might be adding a MAC to the mix and wondered what the best
>> > VNC server/clients were for OS X.  Is there anything that would work
>> > with the added feature of UltraVNC (file transfer, chat)?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> >  David
>> >
>> >
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