Roberto Sanchez wrote:
Becuase no matter where I am at school (where most machines run winblows) I can download the vncviewer (one .exe file, no install, no DLLs, and no necessity for admin privileges) and then SSH with port forwading and get access to my machines. Otherwise, I would need to install some sort of X client (which most of the machines do not have, except in one computer engineering lab),On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 04:03:01PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I have the vncserver running on two machines on my home LAN. My Why not just use X instead? X is a networking window system, after all, and it displays things far faster and more smoothly than VNC could ever dream to be.
No need to download the vncviewer; just use your Java-enabled web browser. From http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/javavncviewer.html:
Because Java applets can only make connections back to the machine from which they were served, each of the VNC servers actually incorporates a small web server. This runs on port 58/xx/, where /xx/ is the display number, and will only serve the Java applet classes and an HTML page which contains them.This means that you should be able to point any Java-capable browser at, for example:http://snoopy:5802/and you should, after a short pause, be able to connect to your VNC session.
Handy. -- Kent