On Saturday 26 November 2005 21:10, Marc Chamberlin wrote: > Hi - Newcomer here and apologizes in advance if this has been asked > before... Tried a search of the archives but perhaps I wasnt using good > keywords.... > > I want to be able to help my Dad remotely using VNC but we have a > difficulty that I am not sure how to solve... His computer is located on > a cable modem and uses a DHCP server to assign him a dynamic IP address. > I have a static IP address. We use to solve this problem under Windows > by my setting up a listening VNC viewer and then he could connect to it > using my static IP address, reversing the normal connection process. > > I am trying to figure out how to do this under Linux now. Can someone > provide me with a cookbook approach, simple instructions? Searching the > archives and documentation I believe I do a vncviewer -listen :1 on my > system ( or something similar) and my Dad would do a vncconnect > myIPaddress:1 ???? Is that correct? If so, the rpm package for the free > version of RealVNC did not supply an executable for vncconnect... It > vncconnect part of the Enterprise version of RealVNC? (I didnt see a > personal version of RealVNC for Linux, is there one?) I am more that > willing to purchase the Enterprise version if I must in order to get > this to work.... > > Thanks in advance.... Marc...
vncviewer --listen is the way to start a viewer in listening mode... see man page for more information ... (in unix shell enter man vncviewer, or in konqueror enter URI man:/vncviewer) Jerry _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
