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Set your VNC password remotely

by Steve Wiseman on June 13, 2006 · 9 comments

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We just released a totally free program that will allow you to set the password of your VNC server while it resides on your local network. It has the option to allow for alternate credentials, and it works for all of the major flavors of VNC (UltraVNC, TightVNC, and RealVNC).

It is a nice tool when you are working on machines that are 100s of miles away within your WAN.

No extra dlls, or .net runtimes are required.
Download it from here As always no spyware, adware – Just freeware goodness.

Requires at least Windows 2000.

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{ 9 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Gorky December 6, 2010 at 4:54 am

Nice!

2 aecbroker September 21, 2012 at 4:55 am

Hi
i’m tryign your software.
I want to change a ultravnc password (version 10.9.6.2) but the software returns the error:

“VNC was not detected on the remote host”

3 Matt October 24, 2012 at 12:48 pm

I am also getting the “VNC was not detected on the remote host” using 1.0.9.6.2 ultravnc. Not sure if its the version or it being ultravnc rather than realvnc.

4 Steve Wiseman October 26, 2012 at 3:44 pm

UltraVNC no longer stores this information in the registry. It is in a file…making it nearly impossible to locate and change this info remotely.

5 Matt November 1, 2012 at 12:41 pm

That is a shame, i’m guessing that the same holds true for all of the variants of vnc ?

6 Steve Wiseman November 2, 2012 at 9:41 am

If you are talking about the issue with ultra vnc…the answer is no. TightVNC, and RealVNC still use the registry.

7 Roger December 28, 2012 at 1:37 pm

@ Matt and aecbroker. On Ultra VNC, install it locally and set the password to what you want. Copy the .ini file from the local machine’s program files directory to the remote machine, and overwrite it. You should be able to connect then.

8 Marcel August 21, 2014 at 5:35 am

Is’a trojan
GenericR-ATM!F6667A01BFF7

9 Steve Wiseman August 21, 2014 at 10:50 pm

Hi Marcel,

Its a false positive. Funny how helpful programs like ours get hit by the anti-virus companies, but programs loaded with spyware from large companies (Looking in the direction of cnet) fly right by.

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