My 2 pence worth.... Connecting to a remote URL with port 5800,5900, 5500 etc will not work for Charles because he wants his clients to hit the standard http port due to the possibility of them being blocked on other ports.
How about port 81 Charles? This is usually used for https connections and should not be blocked plus you could port forward through your router to VNC server on port 5500. Regards -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Davidat Systems Sent: 11 October 2002 15:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Remote Demos Using Standalone Java Client 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 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
