ChunkVNC without DSMPlugin

[blekota]

First of all, big thanks for this application. Works very well!

Otherwise, one question?

How to get working CunkVNC without that rc4.key?
(I suppose, that I have to change server and also viewer settings)

Thanks!

[supercoe]

The source code is included with the package, the .au3 files in the SRC directory can be modified by installing AutoIt or using a text editor such as Notepad++

Is your plan to remove encryption or to just remove the preshared key?

[blekota]

Actually, I dont need DSMPlugin at all. If I am correct, DSMPlugin is using that preshared key.

We need to have option to connect more VNCViewers than one and I think, that DSMPlugin is preventing us from connecting more than 1 Viewer to server. (not sure, if this can be modified somehow)

So if there is no option how to enable multiviewing with DSMPlugin on, then I need to get rid of it.

I already found, where I can turn it off on server side - InstantSupport_Files\ultravnc.ini UseDSMPlugin=1 -> 0

but not sure how to do it for viewer...probably to configure on of ini files in ChunkVNC_3_1\Viewer\Bin chunkviewer.ini or chunkvnc.ini

If I disable it on server and connect with Viewer, I am getting warning that I selected secure connection, but I am connecting to unsecured server.

So the question is, where to set it on viewer side?

[blekota]

I sorted this out!

But another question.....

Is it possible to connect more than one viewer to one ID session???

[supercoe]

Not possible, the repeater can handle only 1 viewer per ID.

[B]

There are, however, anecdotal reports that the long-dead http://sourceforge.net/projects/vnc-reflector/ project still works for that sort of thing. Your mileage may vary widely.

Hmm, there's a recent Drupal module that integrates with it...

http://drupal.org/project/vnc_reflector

[supercoe]

I looked over the readme for VNC Reflector, it doesn't appear to me that it has the ability to connect to a repeater ID, only a VNC server IP.

Basically it seems that VNC Reflector won't work with the ChunkVNC project.

I'll look into it further as I think having a GotoMeeting type function for ChunkVNC would be awesome.

[B]

Maybe you'd be better off expanding the existing repeater to include broadcast/reflection. From what little I've seen, the repeater code is pretty simple?

On a basic level, a repeater is already just a two-point "reflector".

[B]

Whoa, let's take a <b>good</b> look at that Unix repeater again!

I went looking to see if anyone had updated/forked the reflector, and look at this:

http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/faq.html#faq-reflect

Q-118: Can x11vnc be used as a VNC reflector/repeater to improve performance for the case of a large number of simultaneous VNC viewers (e.g. classroom broadcasting or a large demo)?

Yes, as of Feb/2007 there is the "-reflect host:N" option to connect to the VNC server "host:N" (either another x11vnc or any other VNC server) and re-export it. VNC viewers then connect to the x11vnc(s) running -reflect.

I wonder if you could wrap that rascal up in Cygwin under Windows as a quick port?

Edit: Sorry that I seem to be confusing the Unix standalone repeater with the larger Unix x11vnc project. But the suggestion to consider incorporating Karl's work stands...