Another idea

Olivier ILIOU oiliou "at" ifremer.fr
Thu, 02 Sep 1999 15:31:11 +0000


John Wilson a =E9crit :
> You would not normally want to reveal the IP address of the user
> already connected because of security and privacy concerns. You would
> not normally want to notify existing user that somebody is trying to
> connect for fear of Denial of Service attacks.

Sure, I understand it.
But in my company, the people using VNCviewer are all Administrators
(other people can't use it)... So the privacy concerns (who is
connected) are not so important.

> However, in specific situations you might find it useful to do either
> of these things.

It's my opinion too...
=20
> If you know Java you might like to try to modify my VncProxy program to
> do this. The source is part of the distribution and it is released
> under a BSD style Open Source licence.

Well, I'm not sure I'm so good at Java developping to do this stuff...
But I mark it.... for the future peharps!!

--=20
Olivier ILIOU
Stagiaire ISEB
IFREMER

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