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From: "S. I. Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:44:02 +0000
Subject: Re: Simple question of making VNC accessible in
web browser
To remove the need for ":xxxx" at the end, you need to
have the java
viewer being served on the standard http port, which is
port 80.
There are two basic ways of doing this
Either:
1) Forward port 80 on your router to port 5800 on your
computer,
Or (e.g. if your router does not support changing the
port, or you want
to omit :5800 while _inside_ your LAN).
2) Forward port 80 on your router to port 80 on your
computer, and
change the VNC java port to 80.
Port forwarding is needed because your ip address to the
outside world,
is actually your IP address of your router. It then
needs to know what
to do with connections on each port - whether to ignore
them (probably
the default).
In either case, you will also need to forward port 5900
on your router
to your PC.
NOTE: IF YOU ARE USING REALVNC FREE EDITION, THE ABOVE
IS NOT SECURE.
IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO TUNNEL VNC THROUGH SOME
OTHER SECURE
CHANNEL, SUCH AS SSH OR VPN. (The Personal and
Enterprise editions are
more secure, or take a look at VeNCrypt -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vencrypt/ ).
You don't need Apache - Apache is for actual web-sites
servers, not
other services that also use the http protocol. Indeed
if you have
Apache on your system and try to change the java port to
80, one or
other will fail, because you can only have one thing
listening to port
80. If you do have Apache (or any other web-server),
you can configure
it to work in harmony with VNC, by setting up a page in
it just like the
one VNC serves, but from your e-mail I'm assuming that
you don't have
Apache, and so don't need to do this.
HTH,
Stewart
Astan Chee wrote:
> I dont understand how port forwarding (due to my lack
of knowledge in
> it) can solve it.
> Even if i forward port 5900 and 5800 in my router does
that mean i can
> access the vnc server simply by typing http://<ip
address> instead of
> http://<ip address>:5800 ?
> Sorry but im not all that familiar with port
forwarding and had several
> accidents with it in the past.
> Thanks for you for your help!
> Cheers
> Israel A. Martmnez Ibarra wrote:
>> you don't need apache; the only thing to do is to
forwar the port 5900
and
>> 5800 in your router/modem to see your vnc server from
the WAN side.
>> for more help to do forwarding go to
http://www.portforward.com
>> cheers.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Astan Chee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:47 PM
>> Subject: Simple question of making VNC accessible in
web browser
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have a winXP machnine running with a VNC server on
it.
>>> What Im trying to do is access said machine from the
outside world
via
>>> a web browser. I can do it fine if I type http://<ip
address>:5800 in
>>> the URL where <ip address> is the ip of my computer.
>>> Now what Im trying to do is get access when I dont
have access to port
>>> 5800. This means that when I type http://<ip
address> in the URL the
>>> same should happen. I searched and read in a few
places saying that I
>>> needed apache installed on my machine and that I
needed to change
>>> settings in both VNC and apache. What Im asking is
how do I do this?
Are
>>> there any tutorials that shows how I can do this?
>>> Similar to IBM's BladeCenter management module (the
remote control
>>> section) for those who have used/seen it before.
>>> Thanks
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