On Fri Oct 20, 2006 at 04:32:37PM -0400, John Lumby wrote:
> James Weatherall wrote
>
> >John,
> >
> >No, you don't - the syntax you are specifying to your VNC Viewer
> >(host::port:display) is not valid. The two valid syntaxes are:
> >
> >Host:port_or_display (display if 0-99, port otherwise)
> >and
> >Host::port (always port)
> >
> >i.e. you specify *either* a VNC display number *or* a TCP port number.
VNC
> >display numbers 0-99 are just a short-hand for TCP port numbers 5900 to
> >5999.
>
> I hate to argue with someone who has a realvnc email but my recent
> experience is in direct contracdiction of what you have written:
>
> 1). I started my vncserver with options
> vncserver :19 -geometry 1440x1062 -name xxxxx -rfbport 4918
> (I can explain why but not relevant)
>
The :19 there is telling it to start X server 19 which, by default, would
start on port 5919 (hence you get that option in the Xvnc process).
This is then overridden by the -rfbport option in your command line,
hence the server listens on port 4918.
> 2) and now here is the command I used on my workstation to connect :
> vncviewer -geometry 1440x1062 -passwd zzzzz <ipaddr>::4918:19 </dev/null &
> and that worked.
>
> Does that convince you? If not - try it!
>
The X server you specify here is used purely to figure out which port to
connect to - it's not used in any other way by the client. If you
explicitly specify the port then it doesn't need that. Have you tried
starting the viewer with just:
vncviewer -geometry 1440x1062 -passwd zzzzz <ipaddr>::4918
Anything beyond the port number is (presumably) ignored by the vncviewer
application (whether that's by design or purely coincidental I don't
know).
Cheers,
Robin
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