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MS Logon not working when viewed from other VNC programs

Should you have problems with the MS logon plugin, here's the place to look for help or report issues
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PeteBoyd
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MS Logon not working when viewed from other VNC programs

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I wanted to use UltraVNC 1.0.2's MS Logon with the 'Configure MS-Logon II' option so that VNC used Windows domain accounts for authentication. However the UltraVNC authors have enabled this feature through non-standard additions to the VNC protocol. If you enable MS Logon you cannot connect using a different VNC program, such as from GNU/Linux operating systems where there is no UltraVNC client available but there are plenty of other VNC clients. So for now we recommend the single VNC password approach.

The problem manifests itself in Debian GNU/Linux with the following error when the username field is set to 'username@domain-name.localdomain':

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CConnection: server supports RFB protocol version 3.4
CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.3
main: your connection has been rejected
And with the following when the username field is set to 'username'

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CConnection: server supports RFB protocol version 3.4
CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.3
unknown 3.3 security type -6
main: unknown 3.3 security type
Here are links/info on the issue that I found:
The problem isn't the upgrade from UltraVNC Server 1.0.1 to 1.0.2 that was supposed to fix a security flaw with MS domain logon II.

Client VNC programs don't even describe which version of the RFB protocol they support.

The RFB protocol is defined in a document at
http://www.realvnc.com/docs/rfbproto.pdf.

Wikipedia claims there are RFB protocol versions 3.3, 3.7 and 3.8.

Someone with a related, unanswered, question: [topic=8425][/topic]

A patch: http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-li ... 45424.html

Possibly related: http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-li ... 45425.html

Someone else with the problem: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/c ... 00846.html

Developer discussion: http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-li ... 14774.html, http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-li ... 15937.html
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