vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X

[James Weatherall]

Mike,

"localhost:25901:1" isn't a valid VNC Server description - you need to drop
the trailing ":1" in this case.

Regards,

--
Wez @ RealVNC Ltd


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
> Behalf Of Mike Miller
> Sent: 06 March 2009 00:03
> To: VNC List
> Subject: vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X
>
> I put the VNC viewer for Mac OS X on a thumb drive and managed to get
> it
> to work with SSH and the script I was working on the other day.  It
> doesn't seem to recognize the "localhost:25901:1" part of the command
> though, so I had to increase "sleep 10" to "sleep 100" to have enough
> time
> to deal with entering "localhost:25901:1" in the dialog box.  I also
> had
> to use a different path for VNC viewer and a different path for bash
> than
> the paths I used for GNU/Linux.
>
> See below.
>
> If there is a way to make that work better, let us know, if you don't
> mind.
>
> Mike
>
>
> $ cat /media/disk/vnc/mac_os_x/vnc_myserver.bash
> #!/bin/bash
>
> exec_dir="$(dirname "$0")"
> file_dir="${exec_dir}/files"
>
> ssh -f -L 25901:127.0.0.1:5901 me "at" myserver.edu sleep 100
> "$file_dir"/vncviewer.app/Contents/MacOS/VNCViewer -Shared
> localhost:25901:1 &
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
>
>
> $ tree /media/disk/vnc/mac_os_x/
> /media/disk/vnc/mac_os_x/
> |-- files
> |   |-- vnc-E4_4_3-universal_macosx_viewer.dmg
> |   `-- vncviewer.app
> |       `-- Contents
> |           |-- Info.plist
> |           |-- MacOS
> |           |   `-- VNCViewer
> |           |-- PkgInfo
> |           `-- Resources
> |               |-- DownloadIcon.png
> |               |-- DragIcon.png
> |               |-- English.lproj
> |               |   |-- Connection.nib
> |               |   |   |-- classes.nib
> |               |   |   |-- info.nib
> |               |   |   `-- keyedobjects.nib
> |               |   |-- InfoPlist.strings
> |               |   `-- MainMenu.nib
> |               |       |-- classes.nib
> |               |       |-- info.nib
> |               |       `-- keyedobjects.nib
> |               |-- Options.nib
> |               |   |-- classes.nib
> |               |   |-- info.nib
> |               |   `-- keyedobjects.nib
> |               |-- VNCViewer.icns
> |               |-- VNCViewer_new.icns
> |               |-- about.png
> |               |-- activity00_32x32.png
> |               |-- activity01_32x32.png
> |               |-- activity10_32x32.png
> |               |-- activity11_32x32.png
> |               |-- close_connection32x32.png
> |               |-- connectiongraphic.png
> |               |-- connectioninfo32x32.png
> |               |-- ctrl_alt_del32x32.png
> |               |-- dockIcon.png
> |               |-- dotcursor.png
> |               |-- encryption_off32x32.png
> |               |-- encryption_on32x32.png
> |               |-- fetch_files32x32.png
> |               |-- fullscreen32x32.png
> |               |-- fullscreen_revert32x32.png
> |               |-- logo58x55.bmp
> |               |-- new_connection32x32.png
> |               |-- newviewer.png
> |               |-- options32x32.png
> |               |-- save_connection32x32.png
> |               |-- selected.png
> |               |-- share_files32x32.png
> |               |-- unselected.png
> |               |-- up.bmp
> |               |-- vncviewer128x128.png
> |               `-- vncviewer72x72.png
> `-- vnc_myserver.bash
>
> 9 directories, 46 files
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