On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, John Summerfield wrote: > Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 09:43:11 -0500 (EST) > > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > 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.) > > > > I don't think I've ever seen :: in the man page either, but I did see > > it in some web pages when looking up how to forward through ssh, and > > it is useful there if you forward to a local port number that isn't > > in the 59xx range. The results you got would tend to suggest that > > vncviewer will try with and without adding 5900 if you use a single :, > > but it only tries the specific port number if you use a double :: > > (and of course the tightvnc viewer may act different than the realvnc > > viewer). > > > > I think it's worth troubling BZ. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427672 i probably could have been more verbose but i figure that was sufficient. feel free to add extra commentary as you see fit. 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 ========================================================================
