vncviewer on thumb drive for Mac OS X

[Mike Miller]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, James Weatherall wrote:

> 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.


It sounds like this might be the best general approach:

127.0.0.1::25901

It clearly specifies "IPv4" and the port.  I'll try the vnc file with the 
Mac OS X viewer to see if it works.

Thanks much, Wez.

Mike