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Has anyone gotten VNC on Windows Server 2008 R2 to work?

MDMarra
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Danh000
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    Why on earth would you want to use VNC?! – Izzy Nov 02 '09 at 16:38
  • This question has been passed around the stackoverflow network: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1662204/vnc-on-windows-server-2008-r2 and http://superuser.com/questions/64499/vnc-on-windows-server-2008-r2 Yes, someone has. Which VNC are you talking about specifically and what are your difficulties with it? – Wesley Nov 02 '09 at 17:44
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    I use VNC often, but not on my Server 2008 development machines, because one must pay for the enterprise license for vista-based operating systems and up - thus I tend to use Remote Desktop over VPN for win2k8+ – qxotk Nov 02 '09 at 16:34
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    I had it installed on a VM running Server 08 R2. Could you inform us of the issues you're having by editing your original post? – Stevoni Nov 02 '09 at 17:05

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Yes. I just installed Real VNC on my Windows 2008 R2 server 4 weeks ago. It worked just fine for me.

Note: you'll require the Personal Edition (or better) for Windows Server 2008 support. The Free Edition doesn't support Windows Server 2008. See http://www.realvnc.com/products/download.html

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Looks like UltraVNC 1.0.8.0 works with Windows Server 2008 R2 and it's free. Version 1.0.6.5 did not work. See http://forum.ultravnc.info/viewtopic.php?t=16410

Danh000
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TightVNC should also work see: http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html

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Are you talking about the client or the server?

The client should work just fine.

If you're talking about the server... why? Just... why?

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  • Doesn't MS charge you extra beyond a certain number of Remote Desktop licenses per server? (They did in win2k3...) – Kev Nov 30 '10 at 16:17
  • @Kev: Yes, if you're going to use it as a terminal server (more than two concurrent connections), you'll need additional licenses. But VNC will anyway only let you connect to the console session, so it's of no use here. BTW, in my opinion it's of no use *anyway*. – Massimo Nov 30 '10 at 22:26