some simple questions on VNC
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sun Jan 6 14:43:11 UTC 2008
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, John Summerfield wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 2) apparently, although the man page for "vncviewer" doesn't
> > mention it, you can view to a given port number rather than a
> > display number. so either of the following would work equally
> > well:
> >
> > $ vncviewer 192.168.1.100:5
> > $ vncviewer 192.168.1.100:5905
> >
> > although as long as there is that 1:1 mapping, there would seem to
> > be little point using the port number since the display number
> > would work just as well and is clearly shorter.
>
> You need to verify this with other VNC implementations (TightVNC is
> fairly popular). If yoy are correct, you might also report it as a
> bug, either it works incorrectly or it's documented incorrectly.
with vncserver running at 5901, here's the results:
$ vncviewer <remote>:1 works
$ vncviewer <remote>:5901 works
$ vncviewer <remote>::1 nope, "Connection refused"
$ vncviewer <remote>::5901 works
should i have expected that? there's nothing in the man page for
vncviewer that remotely suggests a "::" variation. (this is all based
on the stock f8 vnc packages -- no tightvnc tests yet.)
if need be, i can bugzilla this as just a confusing bit of lack of
documentation.
rday
p.s. maybe i'll just RTFS to see how the command-line args are being
parsed.
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