Aliases for hostnames in viewer

[Eric Carlson]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:08:01 -0500, you wrote:

That won't help.

The URLs are all the same, its the port numbers which change.
This is how it looks:
http://mydomain.com:9999 mapped to sentinel:5900
http://mydomain.com:9998 mapped to morpheus:5900
http://mydomain.com:9997 mapped to trinity:5900

The ideas suggested are interesting but not as simple as a straight
local aliases file which could be read by vncviewer before attempting
the connection. I just want to enter "sentinel", "morpheus" or
"trinity" and not bother with portnames at all. The other advantage is
this is what appears in the title bar so I can tell where I am when I
have several different sessions open too.

>Wez
>Could he also just add them to his host file?
>Tom
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
>Behalf Of James Weatherall
>Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 6:46 AM
>To: eric.carlson "at" group-technical.com; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
>Subject: RE: Aliases for hostnames in viewer
>
>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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