Aliases for hostnames in viewer

[Eric Carlson]

Ugh! For every client?? Naah. DNS arose for a good reason.

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:31:05 +0100, you wrote:

>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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