Re: [NTLK] newtVNC very crashprone?

From: Thomas A Isenbarger (isen_at_plantpath.wisc.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 14 2004 - 06:30:25 PDT


On 13 Jun 2004, at 15:04, Oliver Brose wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> with the idea of using iTunes from the Newt in mind I followed list
> advice and installed "Share My Desktop" and newtVNC. After some
> frustration I noticed that setting "Share Desktop" to YES is a good
> thing, and now it works. Cool!
> It is very crashprone though and takes the Newton with it. It also
> drops the connection constantly. I think this has something to do with
> the memory available to the Newton? Can the stability be improved by
> certain settings? It seemed rather irrelevant how much of the OSX
> desktop was being displayed, sometimes just clicking something would
> cause the connection to be dropped.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Oliver :)

I had the exact same behavior. the connection dropped so often as to
render this "solution" unusable. I did some troubleshooting, but
nothing helped to make this work.

Tom I.

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