Aliases for hostnames in viewer

[James Weatherall]

Yes, that should also work, provided tha machine is configured to use the
hosts file.

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Wright [mailto:tawright915 "at" yahoo.com] 
> Sent: 04 October 2004 17:08
> To: 'James Weatherall'; eric.carlson "at" group-technical.com; 
> vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Aliases for hostnames in viewer
> 
> 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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