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Problem building .msi installer to deploy over GP

Should you have problems with the MS logon plugin, here's the place to look for help or report issues
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sgiovanni
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Problem building .msi installer to deploy over GP

Post by sgiovanni »

I want to deploy UltraVNC to my company over Group Policy. I have built an .msi installer for it used Advanced Installer from Caphyon and it installs perfectly. As part of this installer I had it grab my registry settings from HKLM\Software\ORL\ so it *should* take my settings which specify a password and "Requre MS Logon."

Yet for some reason when I try to connect to it I get only the password dialog, not username and password, and when I enter the correct VNC password it tells me VNC Authentication failed!!

I'm at a loss. Can anyone help?
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Re: Problem building .msi installer to deploy over GP

Post by ChrisP »

you also have to put the HKLM\Software\WinVNC3 Section into your msi files. there should be a key called MSLogonRequired and one NewMSLogon

hope this helps.
sgiovanni
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Re: Problem building .msi installer to deploy over GP

Post by sgiovanni »

I ended up going with the latest stable version instead of the release candidate and that cleared up my problem. Also, to set a password in the registry (so UltraVNC doesn't complain about not having one set even though you don't care because you use MS Logon), do the following:

Open regedit and navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\ORL\WinVNC3\Default and add a REG_DWORD named AllowProperties with a value of 1 and then add a REG_BINARY named Password with a value of basically anything: c10340c02212a199 for example.
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Re: Problem building .msi installer to deploy over GP

Post by eric miller »

SGIOVANNI--I also have created an .msi with the advanced installer application that I had deployed via GPO. Works wonderfully. But I have a question for you.

Did your .msi install winvnc.exe as a service correctly to your target machines? No luck (yet) here. As so far I am limited to connecting to active logon sesions.

-My VNC source configuration that I am pushing out to my workstations is requiring MSlogon. I am getting permission to start service errors upon installation.
-My work around has been to just simply place the winvnc.exe into the allusers/startup folder- so that I can connect once they are actively logged on.
sgiovanni
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Re: Problem building .msi installer to deploy over GP

Post by sgiovanni »

Eric, sorry I just saw your post. If you're still having trouble email me, I sent you my email address in a PM.
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