Probably a very basic problem

[Quentin Stafford-Fraser]

Matthew -

You will need the IP address of the NT machines to be able to connect to
them; that's the only way the connection can be made.  But dialup software
will usually allow you to find out the dynamic address that's been
allocated, once the connection has been made, and you could then enter it by
hand. Or it maybe possible to query the DHCP server by name; I don't know
enough about DHCP...

If you're using Macs, you'll be using the Java viewer; how about making the
NT machines, on connection, add themselves by name and IP address to an HTML
page which would then have links to all the machines' desktops...

Regards,
Quentin

----
Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser
The Olivetti & Oracle Research Lab
http://www.orl.co.uk/~qsf


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vnc-list "at" orl.co.uk [mailto:owner-vnc-list "at" orl.co.uk]On
> Behalf Of Matthew Pollard
> Sent: 22 June 1998 18:05
> To: vnc-list "at" orl.co.uk
> Subject: Probably a very basic problem
>
>
> Hi
>
> I've installed the VNC server on an NT machine and want to access
> it over an Apple network from a mac which if I could access the
> NT machine over the network probably wouldn't be a problem. We
> have an apple server we have Vicom gateway to accesss the
> internet using DCHP so the machine are assigned IP numbers when
> we dialup so we don't have static IPs. How can I access the NT
> machine form a mac?
> I'm fairly new to this NT business so this might be a bit of a
> basic problem.
>
> I would appreciate any help cos the VNC thing looks pretty cool
> and it would be great to get it working.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Matthew
>
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