Two alternatives:
1) Configure your router to forward any incoming connection using the
relevant port (5800 for the web browser connection) to the computer hosting
VNC. See www.portforward.com for help with this (and your router's
manual!). Most routers provide this facility, although
Whilst compiling VNC I needed to add stdlib.h
vnc-4_1_3-unixsrc/common/network/TcpSocket.cxx
line 421 atoi
vnc-4_1_3-unixsrc/unix/tx/TXImage.cxx
line 247 malloc
line 250 exit
vnc-4_1_3-unixsrc/unix/x0vncserver/Image.cxx
line 66 malloc
line 69 exit
It did it not complain about a lack of 'free'
Thanks Philip.
I have two applications: selling our websites to prospects; and helping
customers when they have problems.
Selling our websites to prospects:
I think I am set up for this correctly now. I am the server and the
prospect uses a browser to view my desktop. I can then demonstrate
For the second scenario, you have to have a server on your customer's
machine. Oddly enough I've just described this scenario on this mailing
list.
I'm not aware of a way of getting the VNC server onto the client's machine
without getting them to install it, although if you Google for PCHelpware
