Charles, I am not using port 80 for this purpose. But I have seen a lot of questions on that. I did not have any need to change the port other than 5800+ or 5900+. Please refer to those Q&As for the port 80 issue.
David Letchumanan www.davidatsystems.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Ashton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:40 AM Subject: Remote Demos Using Standalone Java Client > Hi, > > I wondered basically if it was possible to use the Java based viewer for VNC in the following > scenario (or equivalent). > > We often have to do browser-based demos to remote clients. These usually involve a phone > conversation and having the client sign into a secure area of our website on their browser and > then talking them through moving through a sequence of pages (and trying to guess exactly > where they are!). > > Essentially we would like to be able to tell our remote client to go directly to a web address > (essentially a VNC server I guess that we'd set up) that they could view a demo on (we'd > control the demo on the VNC server here - the client would just sit and watch). > > This solution would need the following characteristics: > > 1) our client would have to be able to just go straight to a URL > which would run the java viewer as an applet in a browser (i.e. we > cannot ask the client to install the whole of WinVNC including the > Java viewer) pointing to our WinVNC server. > > 2) the WinVNC server here would have to communicate with our > remote client running the java applet over port 80 as these > are the only ways of getting behind the kind of corporate firewalls that our > clients usually have (this rules out stuff like Netmeeting etc). > > Is this possible? We have looked at a java based system that allows desktop sharing that is > hosted by Webex who also run conferencing servers but it is quite expensive with a monthly > charge so wanted to check out a few other routes. Happy to work out some commercial > arrangement with someone if the solution is of some magnitude. > > We control the firewall at this end so I'd have no problem configuring access on whatever port > at this end with the VNC server - as long as the client is connecting on port 80 ... > > Regards, > > Charles > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
