vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X

[James Weatherall]

Hi Mike,

Further to my previous mail, I'm not sure that the current VNC Viewer for Mac
OS X releases support server names specified directly on the command-line,
although specifying a ".vnc" file on the command-line instead should work.

VNC Servers are referred to in one of two ways:

<name|ip>:<port|display>
<name|ip>::<port>

Where "name" is a DNS name, "ip" an IP address (IPv6 addresses must be
enclosed in square brackets for clarity), "port" a TCP port number and
"display" a VNC display number in the range 0-99.  The single-colon format
assumes display values of 100 or above to be port numbers.

"localhost" should be equivalent on an IPv4-only host.  If a system also
supports IPv6 then specifying 127.0.0.1 indicates that IPv4-based loopback
should be used, whereas "localhost" will normally try using IPv6 and fall-back
to IPv4 if that fails.

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: 09 March 2009 15:24
> To: 'VNC List'
> Subject: RE: vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X
>
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, James Weatherall wrote:
>
> > "localhost:25901:1" isn't a valid VNC Server description - you need
> to
> > drop the trailing ":1" in this case.
>
> Thanks!  I found that on someone's web page and wondered about it, but
> it
> worked, so I kept the :1.  I assume this applies to all vncviewers on
> all
> OSs, am I right?
>
> Related question:  Is there a reason to prefer localhost:25901 to
> 127.0.0.1:25901 ?  Do they *always* do exactly the same thing?
>
> Best,
> Mike
>
>
> >> -----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
> _______________________________________________
> VNC-List mailing list
> VNC-List "at" realvnc.com
> To remove yourself from the list visit:
> http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list