autoreconnect

[JSLayton]

Can someone explain exactly what the autoreconnect option actually does? Does it reconnect after a reboot or just if the connection gets dropped or both?

[kaldag]

Connects when connection is lost not after re-boot.

Ken

[agurcsik]

How long should I wait for a reconnect? It doesn't seem to be reconnecting at all and I end up quiting the viewer and restarting it, then have the user click connect again.

[kaldag]

How are you using the autoreconnect feature??

Ken

[agurcsik]

I start the viewer on my end with reconnect enabled. The customer runs the executable on their end, but I believe that they keep being dropped and reconnected to their wireless router. When the network drops, the remote screen stops responding and does not reconnect. Maybe I am not waiting long enough?

[kaldag]

Did you build your executable with the autoreconnect feature enabled?? Has to be on both ends.

Ken

[UltraSam]

The autoreconnect option must be used on SERVER side

From http://www.uvnc.com/install/cmdline.html

WinVNC Command line help:

-autoreconnect
Is used in conjunction with the -connect switch when having a server "back-connect" to a listening viewer. You can use it in a batch file for your clients that are behind a firewall that is not under your control. The batch file looks something like this:
"c:\program files\ultravnc\winvnc" -autoreconnect -connect 12.34.56.78
On the local computer run the viewer in "listening" mode, and have someone on the server end run the batch file. The -autoreconnect will make the server end attempt to reconnect to the listening viewer if the connection drops or is closed. It will immediately reconnect to the listening viewer if the session is closed. Close the listening viewer altogether in order to stop the server end from "autoreconnecting" to your computer. The server attempts to "autoreconnect" for only a few seconds.
Note that this "autoreconnect" param must be before the "connect" one on the command line!