How to set up VNC?

William Hooper whooper "at" freeshell.org
Thu May 31 13:50:01 2007


Kevin Flowers wrote:
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> Port 5800 is to connect to her machine via the VNC client software, 5900
> is via a web browser.  I prefer the client.

You have these backwards.  Port 5900 is the RFB port (the VNC protocol),
5800 is the HTTP port that serves the Java viewer.  To use the Java viewer
both ports are needed.

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William Hooper