UltraVNC

Ah yes, funny story. I tried to make it work "this way" back when I initially setup these computers. For the life of me, I could not have the VNC program connect to a listening server if the service was not running. I have no idea why, as my assumption is that manually launching "winvnc.exe" should ...

Ah, restarting the service. Now that's a great idea. I assume that by the time I press the restart button in windows control panel, I'll be kicked out and the service relaunched, without a request to connect pending. That sounds promising, and I'll try it.

I know there's a bazillion ways to do it ...

Production system, can't be rebooted...

How will my client re-establish a connection the next time they need it?

15 minutes later I re-opened my viewer and it re-connected to me. This is becoming is a problem

I'm using the UltraVNC software to remotely support a few computers. Given the nature of the internet, and that the vnc client crashes from time to time when tampering with scaling and whatnot, I've setup all computers to autoreconnect their reverse-connected servers.

This is perfect, as, once a ...