InstantSupport opens Ultr@VNC Server Property Page

[voltaic]

Firstly I'd like to thank supercoe for his efforts in putting ChunkVNC together, it's a wonderful project and it's helped me a lot already.

However with the release of 3.2 (which I'm very exited about, now that the linux repeater is a single perl script rather than a port of UltraVNC repeater... this has a lot of benefits for my use) I'm having an issue with the InstantSupport program; it compiles fine, but when I run the InstantSupport executable it doesn't connect to the repeater, but instead opens the UltraVNC Server Properties dialogue, if I press ok it states that the server will not accept connections until a password is set (I set a password when I compiled, and the password field in the server properties window is greyed out anyway...) and then reopens the server properties dialogue.

If I press cancel it will connect to the repeater, but if I try to complete the connection with ChunkViewer, it fails to connect stating that the server is not accepting connections because no password is set...

Has anyone else had this issue, and if so, is there a sol'n?

Best Regards.
Daniel

[JonD]

Yes... one or two of us have experienced that issue. In another thread about property page, supercoe has suggested a small change to the compiler code to allow the hash utility to complete (increasing the sleep time).

He'd like to know if that fixes it.

I increased my sleep(1000) to sleep(1500) and have had no problems since.

JonD

[voltaic]

I came across that thread after I posted mine, and I have tried increasing the sleep time all the way to 5000, and even disabled UAC and ran it then, and also tried running as admin, still having the same issue.

[supercoe]

voltaic,

Did you install Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package? This is required for vnc_hash.exe to function.

[voltaic]

supercoe:

The machine has MS VS2010 installed on it, but I just installed the Redist. Pkg anyway to see if it made a difference, no luck there. I normally wouldn't even post this on the board as I'm sure it's going to be something simple I'm overlooking, but I just haven't had time today to look through the code and try and figure out where things might be going wrong.

I'm going to have a look through the au3's this weekend (I don't know autoit so I'm not sure how successful my attempts will be) to see if I can narrow things down.

Regards,
Daniel

[voltaic]

Also: I am a moron.

Sometimes I make a really stupid mistake and need a kick in the ass to realise it.

Looked at the compile.au3 to see how vnc_hash was being called, then opened cmd to try it manually, navigated to the folder and there's nothing there....

hmmm... maybe I should remember next time that my desktop is a virtual share and not local because windows is running in a VM.

moved the chunk3-2 folder out of the VM shared folder and onto the VM 'harddrive' and it worked.

Also, not sure if you can return values back to autoit, but would it not be worthwhile to have the script check to see if vnc_hash has run succesfully? Just a thought.

Thanks again,
Daniel

[supercoe]

I'll make the changes for the next release.

Bugfix: Make sure files actually exist.

Glad you got it sorted out, hope you enjoy the project.

[bihon]

Hello everyone,

My problem too. I have been trying to run everything on two machines (repeater & viewer on one, win 7 beta release, no vm), no success.
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package is installed. As soon as I start the viewer, I get Ultr@VNC Server Property Page on the client side.
No joy so far, I will try to switch client(xp)/server(w7) machines or even use three different ones, in which case I'll have to use linux as a repeater.

Ready-To-Run Edition works very OK, so kudos to the project.

[supercoe]

bihon,

After compiling could you look at SRC\InstantSupport_Files\ultravnc.ini and tell me what passwd=

This can happen if the compiler isn't setting the password correctly.

[bihon]

[ultravnc]
passwd=00
passwd2=8BF749ADC043135FED

I'll try to compile it on an XP machine and post results later.

bihon,

After compiling could you look at SRC\InstantSupport_Files\ultravnc.ini and tell me what passwd=

This can happen if the compiler isn't setting the password correctly.

[supercoe]

Try this:

Edit SRC\Compiler.au3
LINE: 112

Code: Select all

Sleep( 1000 )			          ; We have to wait a bit for the console app to write the hash.

Change to:

Code: Select all

Sleep( 2000 )			          ; We have to wait a bit for the console app to write the hash.

[bihon]

"Sleep" time change alone didn't help.

HOWEVER... changing the length of password from four char to eight characters during compilation did the trick.
Not sure if this is documented, my excuses if it is.

Thanks for your time and nice stuff.

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