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Raffi Khatchadourian wrote:
> Jarkko Elfving wrote:
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>> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 12:12 -0500, Raffi Khatchadourian wrote:
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>>> Jarkko Elfving wrote:
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>>>> Hi...
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>>>> I've some questions about VNC. I'm never been used it before.
>>>> Friend of mine (under my eyes, he's very, very good Linux user - I'm 
>>>> not so good (yet :))) had tried to configure the VNC on Fedora Core 
>>>> 2 - with no success. He had read everything about it, but still he 
>>>> doesn't get it where something went wrong. VNC session on 
>>>> Linux-to-Windows works fine without any problems, but not on 
>>>> Linux-to-Linux.
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>>> Did you start a vnc server on the host? What kind of viewer are you 
>>> using? A web browser or a application client (vncviewer)?
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>> I'm trying to use a vncviewer... I didn't even know that it will be use
>> in web browser... does it?
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> Yup, if your vncserver is running on :1, for example, you may access the 
> viewer via a java-enabled web browser at http://<hostname or ip 
> address>:5801. Note, that, in this case, port 5801 must be open on your 
> firewall. For testing purposes, you may want to try all this on 
> localhost just to see if it works without fussing with the firewalls.
> 

I didn't know you could do that :-) If you wanted to do that remotely -- 
then all you would have to do is create a ssh tunnel for the browser --
right ??