Hi there, VNC Enterprise Edition supports "One-Port" operation, allowing VNC Viewer for Java to be served via HTTP on the same port as VNC connections will use.
Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Astan Chee > Sent: 21 November 2006 05:41 > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Simple question of making VNC accessible in web browser > > Sorry to bring this up again but two things, firstly thank > you very much > for the information, it worked fine. > Secondly, I havent tested this yet but instead of forwarding > port 5900 > to my pc, change the VNC (and the java) port 80 and only > forward port 80 > from my router. Will this work? or cause conflict since both the java > http port and the vnc port is 80. > Also no, im using VNC enterprise edition also security is not > really an > issue. > Thanks again for your help. > Cheers > > S. I. Becker wrote: > > 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: <vnc-list@realvnc.com> > >>> 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 > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> VNC-List mailing list > >>>> VNC-List@realvnc.com > >>>> To remove yourself from the list visit: > >>>> http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > >> _______________________________________________ > >> VNC-List mailing list > >> VNC-List@realvnc.com > >> To remove yourself from the list visit: > >> http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > VNC-List@realvnc.com > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
