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. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
