Re: Reservation based tightvnc

[Pieter V. G. <pi...@pi...>]

How active is the tightvnc development?  For example, is there someone
in the open source team who is more or less familiar with the
encoding?

I asked quite a similar question as Furkan ÇALIŞKAN last week (about
dynamically changing the VNC password on Windows using the equivalent
of linux's vncpasswd) and was rather surprized that as a new user I
would have to dig into the source, find out where the encoding is done
and then write the Windows version of vncpasswd myself... Very
strange, since the command should probably go into CVS since it is
basic functionality that is simply missing on windows...

Hence my question again: is there someone managing the open source
codebase?  Are there different developers for different modules?

Thanks in advance for your reply,
Pieter

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Ben Ng <ben...@ya...> wrote:
> you can figure out how the vnc algorithm encodes the password and write it
> yourself or you can set various passwords by hour and save the registry keys
> and import them remotely on a scheduled task.
>
> question tho, how are you going to prevent someone from overstaying their
> scheduled time?
>
> here's an idea.
> you can create a script to prompt for name/password and check it against a
> schedule that you have on the server. in a csv or delimited file or
> something.
> then based on the schedule the script will initiate the "listen/vncviewer"
> on the user's side and then "tell" the server to initiate the reverse
> connect to the user's ip; the script could also set up a timer that kills
> the vncviewer process after the allowed session time is exceeded with proper
> warning of course.
> all very do-able.
>
> ---
> Ben Ng
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Furkan ÇALIŞKAN <cal...@gm...>
> To: vnc...@li...
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:09:11 AM
> Subject: Reservation based tightvnc
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to setup an e-learning system for a lab of my university. I'm
> currently using tightvnc and hamachi (for vpn) on Windows Xp. My project
> will be based on a reservation system. Because of we have only one pc for
> our lab we want to open our lab to the users with this solution. They will
> book the lab for a specific time/date and when time comes they will connect.
> For preventing confusion, I want to give an unique password to the users for
> tightvnc connection and they will connect with this number when their time
> comes. Is there any solution for dynamicly changing tightvnc's (winvnc) user
> name/password or must I write a program that changes registry according to
> time?
>
> --
>
> Furkan Çalışkan
> www.furkancaliskan.com
>
>
>
> --
> "Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses
> remove it."
>
> Furkan Çalışkan
> www.furkancaliskan.com
>
>
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