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brooksaar at gmail

Sep 25, 2009, 3:39 AM

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Disabling User Connection Notification

Hi all,

Introduced in RealVNC 4.5.1 is the notification box that tells users
when another has logged in via VNC and is watching. Does anyone know
how to disable this on Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard"?
I find it annoying, and it would be handy if I could access the
computer via VNC without the server notifying the current user...

Thanks,
Aaron

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roberto_meza75 at hotmail

Sep 25, 2009, 9:45 AM

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RE: Disabling User Connection Notification [In reply to]

I agree with Aaron, this new feature is annoying and if anyone knows how to disable it in Windows XP please tell us.

Thanks

> From: brooksaar [at] gmail
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:39:36 +1000
> Subject: Disabling User Connection Notification
> To: vnc-list [at] realvnc
>
> Hi all,
>
> Introduced in RealVNC 4.5.1 is the notification box that tells users
> when another has logged in via VNC and is watching. Does anyone know
> how to disable this on Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard"?
> I find it annoying, and it would be handy if I could access the
> computer via VNC without the server notifying the current user...
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
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christopher at custommade

Sep 25, 2009, 10:25 AM

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RE: Disabling User Connection Notification [In reply to]

> Introduced in RealVNC 4.5.1 is the notification box that
> tells users when another has logged in via VNC and is
> watching. Does anyone know how to disable this on Mac OS X
> 10.6 "Snow Leopard"?
> I find it annoying, and it would be handy if I could access
> the computer via VNC without the server notifying the current user...

Try this...

On host machine, click on VNC top bar icon > Status > Configure. Enter admin
password (if required), go to Expert tab. Scroll down to
"ConnNotifyTimeout", change from 4 to 0. Apply, OK, disconnect and reconnect
to test. :)

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brooksaar at gmail

Sep 27, 2009, 7:40 AM

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Re: Disabling User Connection Notification [In reply to]

This works perfectly!

Thankyou very much for your help,
Aaron

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:25 AM, Christopher Woods
<christopher [at] custommade> wrote:
>
>> Introduced in RealVNC 4.5.1 is the notification box that
>> tells users when another has logged in via VNC and is
>> watching. Does anyone know how to disable this on Mac OS X
>> 10.6 "Snow Leopard"?
>> I find it annoying, and it would be handy if I could access
>> the computer via VNC without the server notifying the current user...
>
>
> Try this...
>
> On host machine, click on VNC top bar icon > Status > Configure. Enter admin
> password (if required), go to Expert tab. Scroll down to
> "ConnNotifyTimeout", change from 4 to 0. Apply, OK, disconnect and reconnect
> to test. :)
>
>

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christopher at custommade

Sep 28, 2009, 3:07 AM

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RE: Disabling User Connection Notification [In reply to]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-bounces [at] realvnc
> [mailto:vnc-list-bounces [at] realvnc] On Behalf Of Roberto Meza
> Sent: 25 September 2009 17:45
> To: brooksaar [at] gmail; vnc-list [at] realvnc
> Subject: RE: Disabling User Connection Notification
>
>
> I agree with Aaron, this new feature is annoying and if
> anyone knows how to disable it in Windows XP please tell us.

Have you looked in the advanced server options to see if the option I
mentioned earlier is in the Windows server options too? (can't check myself
at the moment).

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brooksaar at gmail

Sep 28, 2009, 5:53 PM

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Re: Disabling User Connection Notification [In reply to]

Yes this works in XP, I've applied this "fix" to my both my Windows
XP, Windows 7 and Mac OS X RealVNC servers

Thanks,
Aaron

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Christopher Woods
<christopher [at] custommade> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vnc-list-bounces [at] realvnc
>> [mailto:vnc-list-bounces [at] realvnc] On Behalf Of Roberto Meza
>> Sent: 25 September 2009 17:45
>> To: brooksaar [at] gmail; vnc-list [at] realvnc
>> Subject: RE: Disabling User Connection Notification
>>
>>
>> I agree with Aaron, this new feature is annoying and if
>> anyone knows how to disable it in Windows XP please tell us.
>
> Have you looked in the advanced server options to see if the option I
> mentioned earlier is in the Windows server options too? (can't check myself
> at the moment).
>
>

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christopher at custommade

Sep 29, 2009, 3:06 AM

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RE: Disabling User Connection Notification [In reply to]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Brooks [mailto:brooksaar [at] gmail]
> Sent: 29 September 2009 01:53
> To: Christopher Woods; vnc-list [at] realvnc
> Subject: Re: Disabling User Connection Notification
>
> Yes this works in XP, I've applied this "fix" to my both my
> Windows XP, Windows 7 and Mac OS X RealVNC servers
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron

Ace, glad to hear it worked as hoped :). RealVNC devs could earn some extra
credit if they stuck a simple reg patch onto the Downloads area to
enable/disable this...

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eshelmand at gmail

Sep 29, 2009, 6:56 PM

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Re: Disabling User Connection Notification [In reply to]

I am not understanding what "this fix" is that was applied and the
steps used to accomplish them. Can you please provide more detailed
information. Thanks.

On Sep 28, 2009, at 07:53 PM, Aaron Brooks wrote:

> Yes this works in XP, I've applied this "fix" to my both my Windows
> XP, Windows 7 and Mac OS X RealVNC servers
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Christopher Woods
> <christopher [at] custommade> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: vnc-list-bounces [at] realvnc
>>> [mailto:vnc-list-bounces [at] realvnc] On Behalf Of Roberto Meza
>>> Sent: 25 September 2009 17:45
>>> To: brooksaar [at] gmail; vnc-list [at] realvnc
>>> Subject: RE: Disabling User Connection Notification
>>>
>>>
>>> I agree with Aaron, this new feature is annoying and if
>>> anyone knows how to disable it in Windows XP please tell us.
>>
>> Have you looked in the advanced server options to see if the option I
>> mentioned earlier is in the Windows server options too? (can't
>> check myself
>> at the moment).
>>
>>
>
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christopher at custommade

Sep 29, 2009, 7:24 PM

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RE: Disabling User Connection Notification [In reply to]

________________________________

From: Dale Eshelman [mailto:eshelmand [at] gmail]
Sent: 30 September 2009 02:57
To: Aaron Brooks
Cc: Christopher Woods; vnc-list [at] realvnc
Subject: Re: Disabling User Connection Notification

>> I am not understanding what "this fix" is that was applied and the steps
used to accomplish them. Can you please provide more detailed information.
Thanks.

The 'fix' was the disable the 'user has connected' dialog box which
apparently now appears by default when a new client connection is
established to a machine running the VNC server. The OP wanted to disable
this, and by going into the advanced VNC server options on the host machine
and modifying a variable (the timeout delay for the notification dialog)
this effectively disables the dialog from ever showing as it times out
immediately.

See previous replies for (simple) steps required to achieve this, and more
info. It's a bit of a kludgey bodge of a hack, but it's better than owt :)

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