some simple questions on VNC

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Steven Stern wrote:

> It's been a while since I've  had it installed, but IIRC,
> http://server:5801 downloads a java app to the client browser that
> functions as a vnc viewer.
>
> http://www.rhic.bnl.gov/RCF/UserInfo/Software/VNC/vnc.html#java

right, i just verified that by starting vncserver (with a display
number of :1) and browsing to http://<server IP>:5801, which popped up
a java applet vnc viewer, so that's another mystery solved.

rday

p.s.  on the server side, you can disable this ability by starting
vncserver with the option "-nohttpd", for which "netstat" will show
you that nothing is listening on that port.  slowly but surely ...

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