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mwiktowy is offline mwiktowy
2007-01-29 , 21:06
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#11
Originally Posted by AaronL View Post
Well actually, if the server is running on UNIX/Linux, you probably also need the port number, something like <ip address>:<port number>. If this is the first instance of VNC server that you have started, it will probably have a port number of 1 (it will report this to you when you manually start VNC server). So, it would be something like 192.168.0.125:1, as an example. Then again, if you are running something like vino, then I think just the IP address will be sufficient, as a port of 0 is used, which is assumed to be the default.
AaronL
The stuff after the ":" is not a port number (as is usually the case after a ":" in a URL) but rather some sort of server display instance number ... that does happen to map to a real port. The first server instance usually gets assigned :0 and usually listens on port 5900/tcp. The second server gets display :1 and listens on port 5901/tcp and so on. You can run typically a maximum 64 of displays on the same machine but I think there are ways to extend this.

This is useful to know if you want to tunnel VNC through SSH ... which is very possible on the Nokia IT with both the OpenSSH and VNC app installed.