UltraVNC

Maybe the resolution have something to do?
Since this is an old notebook windows is set to 800x600...

Takeda, Is your server is windows 2000 box? Is your server a win9X box? The problems I'm hawing are on Windows 98 (server is running on it). Desktop init failed, unlock in application mode ? Verify if the server is running as service. Does it matter in windows 98? Anyway I started WinVNC as a ...

I didn't mentioned that, but it actually can be seen from the logs. The log I created by doing loopback connection. So mentioning Windows 2000 in my post was totally unnecessary (it looks like client doesn't matter at all).

Takeda, and other readers My test settings Ultra VNC 1.01 One windows 98 box one windows XP box using classic authenicaiton only On a lan In my situation as a client I use Windows 2000 Pro SP4, but I don't think this matters. with msrc plugin on and off!! I didn't use this plugin at all, in fact I ...

Thank you

I have exact same problem. I'm running UltraVNC 1.0.1 on old HP Pavilion N3250 notebook with Windows 98 installed. After entering password in the client, client just turns itself off without any message, and screen in my windows turns black, after pressing a keys, I see messed up screen. Windows ...

Anyone have an idea how to enable RDP on windows 2000 pro?

I know it's possible (they use exactly same kernel) I did it once, but it wasn't really clean solution...

If you have any linux/unix machine acting as a NAT, then you probably don't need encryption at all. Alll you need is to start ssh, with port forwarding. All communication is encrypted, and it also helps avoiding too restrictive firewalls.