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When connecting to VNC Server the screen stays black

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Carlos Behlau

When connecting to VNC Server the screen stays black

Post by Carlos Behlau »

Dear all,

I did read a lot of the general FAQ but I could not find out what to do for this problem. There was a lot of discussion of RDP and so on, but I could not find what to do.

Here the problem I am facing:

I installed the VNC Server on a Windows 2003 Server, that also has Terminal-Services (or Remote Desktop function) enabled. Also I activated the encryption plug-in. On my test environment it was working fine.
The differences on my test environment was: Windows 2000, one network card and no Terminal-Service.

The Windows 2003 Server have also two network cards (one for “front-end” and the other for “backbone”).
The backbone address is not reachable over the LAN.
This for info.

What is funny, when I connect to Terminal-Server over Remote Desktop and then start the VNC, I get the screen. When I logoff, from Remote Desktop and then try to connect to VNC, I get the black screen.

I am starting here to cry, because I convinced my colleagues to use VNC instead of pcAnywhere, because it has all function as pcAnywhere and cost nothing. Now it is not working. That is not nice :-(.

I was reading yesterday a lot of the articles that where posted, but I could not find how to solve this problem (I think I am still a nobe).
I can not installed some graphic drives on the machines (Windows 2003), because than I am in the same situation as with pcAnywhere.
"A system that puts drivers before the kernel and gets sometimes into dumps."

The big thing why I was pushing VNC was, that more than one people can get on a machine and in a support situation that is like "gold".

Hope that someone could help.

I also tried to deactivate the encryption, but I am still facing the same problem.

For all help many thanks in advanced.

Best regards



Carlos Behlau
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Post by OldNick »

NObody has replied to you. That can be off-putting.

I can't help, but apart from the FAQ, read the message a couple above yours from nutsnbolts. It is the same topic.

Basically it sounds as if there is a problem with RDP (deliberate?) and it's being chased up.
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Post by ipsec »

[topic=1782][/topic]

I think this was you too and it was at least addressed.. It has something to do with Terminal Services running on the server.
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