December 2005
Beginner
480 pages
13h 27m
English
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Hack #11. Access VNC Servers over the Web
With a little extra software, you can access your VNC servers in any web browser.
If you use VNC often enough, you'll eventually find yourself needing access to a VNC viewer from a computer on which it has not been installed. You can put a copy of the installer or the installed application on a public share, but manually connecting each time is a pain, especially if you just need to quickly type a command or check status on the remote machine running your VNC server—and always carrying a CD or floppy with the VNC viewer application on it is equally irksome.
Fortunately, the people who designed VNC are smart folks, and they thought of a solution to the roaming user problem—a hassle-free way to make your VNC servers available even if the system you're using doesn't have VNC client software installed. All VNC servers include a small built-in web server that can serve the Java classes needed for any Java-enabled browser to connect to the VNC server. This lets you access any VNC session that is already running on one of your systems using any modern, Java-enabled browser. The VNC server listens for HTTP connections on port 5800 plus the number of the display being exported. Therefore, to view a VNC session running on display 1 of the host 64bit.vonhagen.org, you would access the URL http://64bit.vonhagen.org:5801/.
As with any VNC session, the Java classes that implement the VNC client will prompt you for the VNC server's password before connecting ...
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