New feature in UltraVNC SC (source code request)

Luk.o · Post by **Luk.o** » 2006-05-01 15:28

Hi,

First of all I would like to thank all developers for this great piece of software. It lowers amount of PITA in my work as a technical support guy significantly.

Currently, I'm testing a setup witch requires a person wanting me to connect to their machine to click on a link on my website. It invokes a cgi script which puts together an sc.exe for client to download and run. It generates a random ID and puts it in helpdesk.txt file. Sc.exe connects to my repeater. I can connect to it with a viewer and access clients machine.

It all works great as long as there is only one person trying to click on a link at the same time. I was thinking for a while how to solve this problem, and came to a conclusion that the most beneficial to everyone and most elegant solution would be to modify sc source code to add support for random id generation by winvncsc.exe itself(probably by means of -randomid option in hepdesk.txt).

Also, I would like to add support for an option -smallgui which if included in helpdesk.txt would make winvncsc to display a smaller window with just a logo and two buttons: connect and cancel.

As anonymous CVS at sourceforge is down(or i'm too stupid to use it) and there are no makefiles in nightly tarballs. I would be glad if someone can send me a whole source of UltraVNC with winvncsc (doesn't have to be the latest) so I can make changes needed by me and contribute them for everyone else to use.

Luk.o · Post by **Luk.o** » 2006-05-09 06:46

Hi,

Why it's such a pain to get UltraVNC SC source code? Is this by design, or is it just that nobody cares? Would it be so hard to _not_remove_ winvncsc project folder from the rest of ultravnc source distribution? Or is someone doing it deliberately for whatever reason?

Marscha · Post by **Marscha** » 2006-05-10 06:11

hmm, sourceforge's cvs seems to work at the moment.
There is also a subversion repository at http://sc.uvnc.com/svn/ultravncV1/
This contains some newer enhancements like the tabbed viewer and VS2005 support.

Luk.o · Post by **Luk.o** » 2006-05-10 11:08

Thanks for your reply. Yes, CVS at sourceforge works at the moment. I grabbed the source as fast as I could

I't would be nice to have a bit more reliable way of getting the source. Why it's not a part of a main source distribution anyway? It seems to be stable.