remote access

[Paul Kaplan]

On Tuesday 13 February 2007 3:57:20 am Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 21:10 -0500, Paul Kaplan wrote:
> > I'm trying to use vnc4viewer on an edgy box at work to connect to my
> > electronically comatose dad's home XP box.  I have realvnc setup on the
> > XP box and it works from my home boxes, but the problem is that our
> > corporate network seems to be locked down tight (and I have no admin
> > access nor am I likely to).  I can't ping any IP address that is outside
> > the corporate network, so I assume that the firewall is blocking access.
> >
> > How can I get through?  If anyone has any suggestions, could you also
> > point me to some explicit instructions?
>
I discovered part of a solution...I think.  Since I'm using realvnc on the XP 
box, I can access via its build-in java server.  However I'm noticing that if 
I attempt to connect to an account on the XP box that doesn't have admin 
privileges, the user account dies and I'm thrown back to the XP login screen.  
This doesn't occur if I use an xvnc client or if I use java to connect to an 
account w/ admin privileges.

Does anyone know whether this is a realvnc server problem, an XP problem or a 
java problem on my edgy box?  How to fix?

Paul