Timbuktu Pro Changelog
What's new in Timbuktu Pro 902 RC 250
Jan 25, 2011- Windows Vista introduced several architectural changes that conflicted with Timbuktu’s implementation of screen sharing and user management. Microsoft provided a compatibility shim that mitigated some of the Vista-related changes, but Timbuktu was unable to interact correctly with the User Account Control or Windows secure desktop. True compatibility required significant changes to the Timbuktu architecture.
- In particular, session-0 Isolation, User Account Control restrictions, and always-on and domainaware Fast User Switching required an entirely new implementation of Timbuktu’s screen sharing and user management.
- Timbuktu for Windows, version 9 addresses these issues through one significant change: the single Timbuktu application is now two separate components, the Timbuktu Guest and the Timbuktu Host. The Timbuktu Host listens for and accepts incoming Timbuktu connections, and the Timbuktu Guest establishes outgoing connections to other Timbuktu computers.
- The separation of the Timbuktu Host and the Timbuktu Guest has several important ramifications. The Timbuktu Guest can run with the permissions of the current Windows user profile, allowing it to sidestep many problematic architectural issues. The Timbuktu Host, which is comprised of several different executables, can address other architectural issues. In addition, it provides a more secure, robust, and reliable system.
- You will configure the Timbuktu Guest with the Preferences dialog box. Because the Timbuktu Host has no main application window, its settings are managed with the new Timbuktu Host Configuration Utility.
- When you install Timbuktu, you will have the option to install the Timbuktu Host, the Timbuktu Guest, or both.
New in Timbuktu Pro 8.6.5 RC 229 (Jul 31, 2008)
- Remote users can no longer exploit a vulnerability in the Send and Exchange services to replace files on a
- Timbuktu Pro computer.
- Timbuktu Pro will no longer crash when it receives an incorrectly formatted computer name through the Timbuktu Scanner, and then attempts to connect to that computer with the Send service. Previously, certain incorrect formats could result in a stack buffer overflow when Timbuktu Pro attempted to use the
- computer-name value in the Send window.
- Timbuktu Pro will no longer crash when it receives an incorrectly formatted network packet from a remote
- computer.
- Timbuktu Pro no longer erroneously attempts to use the (Default) value of the Timbuktu Pro NT Users
- registry setting as a Windows NT User SID.
- The GDI scraper technique for remote-control screen capture has been improved. Cursor flickering has been
- reduced.
- The DirectDraw scraper technique for remote-control screen capture has been improved. The cursor will no
- longer jump to previous positions when you view a host computer during a Terminal Services session.
- When a multi-monitor computer is running an incoming Control or Observe session, and the monitors have different resolutions, there is a �dead space� in which no screen data is present. Moving an application window into this area no longer causes the screen-sharing session to fail or Timbuktu Pro to crash.
- Hooking support when running in a Fast User Switch environment has been improved.