-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- ~ Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHf8okeERILVgMyvARAqHTAJ9xEjP7rM0G3NnPooZltYpCDzN77QCfSE5O eHl8wKeuHMsmnW3COFdvEGU= =K9e8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
