some simple questions on VNC

[Steven Stern]

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On 01/05/2008 12:07 PM, 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?
|
| what you wrote above is a bit confusing since it sounds like you're
| saying that the java VNC viewer is running on the *server* side.
|

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

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~  Steve
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