VNC^® Enterprise Edition User Guide

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VNC Enterprise Edition can be used in many different ways to solve many different kinds of problem. There is no such thing as a typical VNC Enterprise Edition user.

For example, you may be sitting in front of a host computer and need to know how to set up VNC Server for multiple incoming connections. Or you may be sitting in front of a client computer and want to know how to use VNC Viewer to control a remote host. There may or may not be a host computer user for you to communicate with, or you may be sharing the host computer’s desktop—and therefore control—with other users. You may be connecting within a corporate network, in which case a system administrator might be available to help with connection issues. Or you may be helping friends or family over the Internet, and have to negotiate firewalls and routers on your own.

VNC Enterprise Edition is designed to be as useful out-of-the-box to as many people as possible. However, there is virtually no limit to the ways in which it can be configured to suit your requirements and environment. Some chapters in this manual are targeted at more expert users, likely to require the power of changing options – system administrators setting up VNC Enterprise Edition for virtualization or remote configuration, for example. Other chapters, especially the first two, should be useful for all users.

•  To walk through making your first connection from a client computer running VNC Viewer to a host computer running VNC Server, see Chapter 2, Getting Started: Connecting A Client To A Host Computer.

•  To learn how to use features of VNC Viewer to enhance your experience of controlling a host computer, read Chapter 3, Using VNC Viewer.

•  If you want to control a host computer from a web browser instead of VNC Viewer, read Chapter 4, Connecting From A Web Browser.

•  To see how to exchange information between client and host computers, read Chapter 5, Exchanging Information.

•  To learn how to configure VNC Server on the host computer, and for advanced topics such as running multiple instances of VNC Server, see Chapter 6, Setting Up VNC Server.

•  By default, VNC Enterprise Edition establishes authenticated, encrypted connections. To learn more about security, and how to relax the rules if you consider it safe to do so, read Chapter 7, Security.