About VNC

Leif Schaffner redirect at wideopenwest.com
Tue Nov 30 21:10:35 UTC 2004


William Hooper wrote:
> Leif Schaffner said:
> [snip]
> 
>>This piqued my curiously and I just skimmed a few vnc* man pages.
>>
>>
>>With some creative hacking & redirection -- can I allow a windowz java
>>enabled browser as a vnc-client into my FC3 box using existing ports and
>>services?
>>
>>I'm thinking about (apache+enabled home directories) handle the HTTP
>>portion through :443 & ssh handle the RFB ??
> 
> 
> The java viewer is just an applet that can be served by any HTTP server. 
> I've used apache in the past to serve the applet pointing to the inetd
> port for VNC to generate once-off VNC sessions authenticated by GDM.
> 
> That said you have to be concerned with java security (i.e. I believe that
> by default you can only connect to the same host that served you the
> applet).  Also, if you have SSH already set up (you are using it for the
> RFB), why not just use SSH to tunnel both the HTTP and RFB?
> 

You threw me off with the two different ports (5801 & 5901) in one of 
your previous posts.

You are right -- tunnelling both *:22 is best & preferred.

Thanks for your reply,

Best wishes




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