VNC® Enterprise Edition 4.5 - Known Bugs
The following are known bugs, features, and omissions in VNC Enterprise Edition 4.5. You may also wish to check the known bugs for version 4.4.x
| Date | ID | Program (Platform) | Description | Workaround | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Mar 2008 | 457 | VNC Viewer (Windows) | On Windows 2000 and earlier, the VNC Viewer toolbar is too wide and has no tooltips. | None. | Under consideration. |
| 16 Apr 2008 | 656 | VNC Viewer and VNC Server (Windows NT 4) | Transferring a directory twice to the same location does not copy the contents of that directory correctly. | Rename the directory transferred first before transferring it a second time. | Won't fix. |
| 28 Apr 2008 | 782 | VNC Viewer and VNC Server in User-Mode (Windows) | If the IZArc compression shell extension is installed, VNC Viewer and VNC Server (User-Mode) may crash when transferring files via the Fetch Files user interface. | Paste the files from the clipboard instead of using Fetch Files. | Won't fix. |
| 12 May 2009 | 1599 | VNC Server in User-Mode or Service-Mode (UNIX) | No updates sent or screen corruption using some video drivers with desktop effects enabled. |
Disable desktop effects. For User-Mode, you can also set UseDamage=0.
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Won't fix. |
| 12 May 2009 | 1756 | VNC Server (Windows) | Window 'smearing' when dragging windows between monitors on a multi-monitor system with the mirror driver enabled. | Disable VNC Mirror Driver. | Under consideration. |
| 12 May 2009 | 2259 | VNC Server (all platforms) | IPv6 connections are disabled if IP address filtering is enabled. | None. | Under consideration. |
| 12 May 2009 | 2278 | VNC Server in Virtual-Mode (UNIX) | Xvnc crash running various applications, particularly those using OpenGL. | None. | Fixed in 4.5.3. |
| 12 May 2009 | 2362 | VNC Server (Windows) | VNC Server freezes when a query including a parameter is copied to the clipboard in MS Access. | Ask someone with physical access to the computer to dismiss the Access prompt for a parameter value. | Under consideration. |
| 12 May 2009 | 2389 | vncconfig (UNIX) | vncconfig crashes occasionally on keyboard input. |
Insert the command sleep 1 before running vncconfig in xstartup.
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Under consideration. |
| 12 May 2009 | 2755 | VNC Deployment Tool (Windows) | Auditing licenses on a 64-bit remote host does not work. | When deploying VNC Server, select a license key explicitly using the Installation Options dialog. | Under consideration. |
| 12 May 2009 | 2828 | VNC Server in Service Mode (Mac OS X) | Group-based authentication only works for short names. This means admin users cannot connect using their full names. | Authenticate using short names, or add the full name to the authentication list. | Under consideration. |
| 12 May 2009 | 2860 | VNC Server in Virtual Mode (UNIX) | VNC Server crashes when the x11perf tool is run against it. |
Use the -extension RENDER option to run VNC Server without XRENDER support.
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Under consideration. |
| 24 June 2009 | 3169 | VNC Server in Service Mode (HP-UX) |
The commands vnclicense, vncserver -list and x0vncserver -list fail to perform their respective operations.
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Install HP's most recent linker tool cumulative patch, PHSS_39077. | Under consideration. |
| 25 August 2009 | 2870 | VNC Server (Mac OS X 10.6) | Upgrading to Snow Leopard disables platform-native authentication. | Please see the workaround page | Fixed in 4.5.2. |