some simple questions on VNC

[Les Mikesell]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Steven Stern wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/05/2008 11:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>> | 3) on the server side, what is the purpose of the *other* ports
>>> | associated with each listening port?  that is, after i start vncserver
>>> | listening on port, say, 5917, i can see listening ports 5817 and 6017
>>> | suddenly active as well.  what are they for?
>>> |
>>>
>>> The 58xx ports fire up a java version of the VNC viewer so you can
>>> use VNC inside a web browser.
>>
>> um ... so the 58xx ports are listening specifically only for
>> java-based VNC viewers that are being invoked from within a browser?
> No, it's a java-implemented http proxy.
> It's in the docs.

I'd call it an http server that offers to download a java applet that 
runs on the client - it doesn't need java on the server.

Is there a 'complete' guide to VNC anyhere?  Other ways of running it 
include the X module that serves connections to the local console screen 
and letting xinetd start login sessions/desktops on demand as 
implemented in the vncts package.  Are there more?

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   Les Mikesell
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