Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <38454933.C4B60CEF@ece.gatech.edu> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 11:13:39 -0500 From: "Charles S. Wilson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Repeat - X applications only work for Administrator References: <19991201130746 DOT 9562 DOT qmail AT ww184 DOT netaddress DOT usa DOT net> <38454392 DOT 4D956146 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <19991201104951 DOT A863 AT cygnus DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Faylor wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 10:49:38AM -0500, Charles S. Wilson wrote: > > > > > >Charles McKnight wrote: > >> > >> Charles, > >> > >> If you've got NT4SP6, you'll need to get NT4SP6a or the patch for NT4SP6 to > >> fix the Winsock-related problems. = > >> > >> Patch: > >> http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntsp/Patch/afd.sys/NT4/EN-US/Q245678i.exe > >> > >> Full Release: > >> http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/SP6/allSP6.asp > >> > >> Hope this helps. > >> > >> Chuck McKnight > >> > >That fixed the problem. Thanks! > > Does this mean that it's safe to use NT4SP6? Does it work with VNC now? > > cgf Well, that's the wierd thing. I've been using VNC server on the SP6 system for a while now. It never complained. I had the server running on the NT box, and was viewing the NT desktop from a unix-VNC client. 'Course, I was port-forwarding through a firewall using SSH, so that may have made a difference? remote unix client: ssh -f +C -c blowfish -S -L 5901:my_nt_box_behind_firewall:5900 my_linux_firewall vncveiwer -encodings "copyrect hextile" localhost:1 my_linux_firewall: running sshd, I have a login account my_nt_box_behind_firewall: NT4 SP6 (now running SP6a but haven't tried this again since 6->6a) running vnc server --Chuck -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com