Aliases for hostnames in viewer

[James Weatherall]

Eric,

One way to achieve this is to save a .vnc connection-info file for each
host.  You can then name the file whatever you choose. 
Alternatively, you could set up some DNS aliases for the machines.

Cheers,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Eric Carlson
> Sent: 04 October 2004 11:53
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: Aliases for hostnames in viewer
> 
> I have a bunch of servers on a LAN with static IP's and have 
> routed then through the firewall with individual port 
> mappings. For example I use http://mydomain.com:9999 to map 
> to the machine on the LAN with IP
> 192.168.62.7 listening on port 5900. This works great, there 
> are a dozen machines variously running W2000/XP/Linux 
> available. The problem is I can't easily reemember which is 
> which! They do all have their own hostnames on the LAN which 
> I know, so what I'm after is an alias facility such that in 
> the vncviewer url box I can key in "morpheus"
> and have it map to the URL I gave, rather than having to 
> remember the portnames for each host.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> - ec
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