Desktop Sharing popup

Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 30 19:14:44 BST 2011


On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:40:56 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Tuesday 30 Aug 2011 Michael D. Berger wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:53:28 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 30 Aug 2011 Michael D. Berger wrote:
>> >> On my CentOS 6, KDE 4, how can I permanently stop the "Invitation -
>> >> Desktop Sharing" window from appearing?
>> > 
>> > It sounds as though someone on your network has Desktop Sharing
>> > enabled, with your computer set as default remote host.  In Linux
>> > that would be krdc/krfb, though I don't know how it is set up of the
>> > client is in Windows.  The setup described in
>> > http://userbase.kde.org/Krdc may help you to decide what needs to be
>> > done to solve your problem.
>> > 
>> > Anne
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> The box is a laptop with newly installed CentOS 6, and is not connected
>> to anything when the problem appears.  In any case, I followed the link
>> you provided, and solved the problem using the system tray.
>> 
> Turning off notifications?   Just asking, for the sake of the archives
> and others that search for solutions :-)
> 
> Anne
[...]

Is there something important that I might miss?  I note that
I use a very strong iptables that logs and drops anything I
don't understand (which includes many things) and I have no
plans for desktop sharing.  I found the useless pop-ups to
be a nuisance.

Thanks for your help.
Mike.

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