-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/05/2008 11:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: | nothing serious, just some grotty details to clear up. | | 1) on the server side, is the equivalence between the listening TCP | port and the display number a 1:1 mapping? that is, does port 5901 | always represent display number :1, port 5902 display number :2 and so | on? it certainly *seems* that way, i just want to make sure. | | 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. | | 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. - -- ~ Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHf8OIeERILVgMyvARAiSNAJ9FXzPWTk9k8dA2coPlKWWGTZS2qACfWLIj i+WlhnrVTNExLRYU35GSUBQ= =TD/U -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
