Frozen Screen from Previous Session

[Robert Walkama]

Hi,

Yesterday I initiated an outgoing connection from Windows 2000 to a listening
viewer on Windows XP. Everything worked fine for several hours.

I'm not sure how it happened, but on the viewer end the display froze and I
had to close the connection.

Now, whenever I reinitiate an outgoing connection to this listening viewer,
vncviewer gives me back the same screen I saw the day before. This is after I
have rebooted the machine that is in listening mode.

Anyone ever seen this before?

Thanks,

Bob

[Robert A. Book]

Bob,

Sorry for the late response.

Forgive me if I am misunderstanding the question, but I thought this
was how VNC was supposed to work. When the viewer disconnects, the
server session remains active -- the display is retained, programs
keep running etc.

I use this all the time... from the office, I connect to my home PC
(the VNC server) and do some work, then shut down my office computer
and go home. When I get home I start VNC viewer (server and viewer
are now on the same machine) and the VNC session is right where I left
it, so I can resume work right where I left off. The next day, I go
back to my office, and find the session the same as I left it when I
left home.

Not only is this a case of "not a bug but a feature," but this feature
is one of the motivations behind VNC. Indeed, the very first feature
listed on the old VNC home page (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/)
is:

"No state is stored at the viewer. This means you can leave your
desk, go to another machine, whether next door or several hundred
miles away, reconnect to your desktop from there and finish the
sentence you were typing. Even the cursor will be in the same
place."

--Robert

Post by Robert Walkama
Hi,
Yesterday I initiated an outgoing connection from Windows 2000 to a listening
viewer on Windows XP. Everything worked fine for several hours.
I'm not sure how it happened, but on the viewer end the display froze and I
had to close the connection.
Now, whenever I reinitiate an outgoing connection to this listening viewer,
vncviewer gives me back the same screen I saw the day before. This is after I
have rebooted the machine that is in listening mode.
Anyone ever seen this before?
Thanks,
Bob
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[Robert Walkama]

Robert,

I fixed the problem. You are right about how VNC works.

My problem was that I rebooted that the actual server desktop looked nothing
like what vncviewer was returning to me, for I had since done work directly
on the machine. When I would go home to view the server machine from home, I
would get screen I saw the day before--as though nothing had happened.

What I ended up having to do was reboot the server machine. When I
reinitiated an outgoing connection, I was golden.

Thank you for writing.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert A. Book" <***@pobox.com>
To: <vnc-***@realvnc.com>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: Frozen Screen from Previous Session

Post by Robert A. Book
Bob,
Sorry for the late response.
Forgive me if I am misunderstanding the question, but I thought this
was how VNC was supposed to work. When the viewer disconnects, the
server session remains active -- the display is retained, programs
keep running etc.
I use this all the time... from the office, I connect to my home PC
(the VNC server) and do some work, then shut down my office computer
and go home. When I get home I start VNC viewer (server and viewer
are now on the same machine) and the VNC session is right where I left
it, so I can resume work right where I left off. The next day, I go
back to my office, and find the session the same as I left it when I
left home.
Not only is this a case of "not a bug but a feature," but this feature
is one of the motivations behind VNC. Indeed, the very first feature
listed on the old VNC home page (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/)
"No state is stored at the viewer. This means you can leave your
desk, go to another machine, whether next door or several hundred
miles away, reconnect to your desktop from there and finish the
sentence you were typing. Even the cursor will be in the same
place."
--Robert

Post by Robert Walkama
Hi,
Yesterday I initiated an outgoing connection from Windows 2000 to a listening
viewer on Windows XP. Everything worked fine for several hours.
I'm not sure how it happened, but on the viewer end the display froze and I
had to close the connection.
Now, whenever I reinitiate an outgoing connection to this listening viewer,
vncviewer gives me back the same screen I saw the day before. This is after I
have rebooted the machine that is in listening mode.
Anyone ever seen this before?
Thanks,
Bob
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