UltraVNC Server in Listen Mode - Persist Connection

[cprice]

Hi there,

Firstly, I would like to say that I have really enjoyed working with your product.

Basic setup:

UltraVNC_Repeater 1.08
UltraVNC Server 1.0.9.6.1
Viewer is in a private network
Server is in a private network
Repeater is in a public network (ports 80 and 443 are open)

My basic goal is to have a permanent connection open to the Server with a unique ID. Even if a session ends.

I've created the following .bat file on the server:

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winvnc -id:1234 -autoreconnect -connect repeaterip::80 -run

And it is being called every 5 minutes.

This seems to work great, but I'm getting the following log message on the Repeater every 3 minutes or so (without trying to access the server):

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recv -1
Server Removed from List 1234
Remove server 0
Server Removed from List 0
Server Added to List 1234
recv 12

Any idea what this message is all about? And how to keep the Server listening without breaking?

Also, in general, am I implementing this system optimally given what I want to accomplish?

Thanks much!
CP

[B]

I'm puzzled. It seems that it's doing exactly what you told it to do! Your VNC server is making repeated connections to the VNC repeater, and your repeater logs show that.

What's the problem? If you just want the server to autoreconnect, though, the batch file shouldn't be necessary?...

[cprice]

Hi B,

Thank you for your reply. Just wanted to make sure I'm using the software as it is intended

[supercoe]

The UltraVNC server is designed this way.
After a timeout period the server will drop the connect request, since you've used -autoreconnect it connects again.
Rudi might be able to explain the reasoning behind this better as I too wish it would be persistent.