Unless stated, this User Guide assumes you are connecting from a client computer running fully-featured VNC Viewer 4.5 to a host computer running VNC Server 4.5. However, you can also:

• Use VNC Viewer 4.5 to connect to:

— A version of VNC Server prior to 4.5.

— A computer running VNC Personal Edition or VNC Free Edition.

— A Mac OS X computer with Screen Sharing or Remote Management built-in and enabled (turn on VNC viewers may control screen with password, and set a password).

— A VNC-compatible Server product from a third party.

Note that not all the functionality of VNC Enterprise Edition 4.5 is available in each circumstance.

• Connect to VNC Server 4.5 from:

— A version of fully-featured VNC Viewer prior to 4.5.

— Standalone VNC Viewer.

— A Java-enabled web browser.

Note that not all the functionality of VNC Enterprise Edition 4.5 is available in each circumstance. See the sections below for more information.

Connecting from an earlier version of VNC Viewer

You can connect to VNC Server 4.5 from a version of VNC Viewer prior to 4.5, but note that features new to this release will not be available. In particular, you cannot:

• Print host computer files.

• Copy and paste text containing special characters between applications running on the client and host computers. You can only copy and paste characters from the Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) character set.

• Chat with other connected users, or with a host computer user, on computers running UNIX or Linux or Mac OS X.

Note: You may not be able to connect to VNC Server at all if your version of VNC Viewer does not support encryption and authentication. For more information, see the RealVNC web site.

Connecting from standalone VNC Viewer

You can connect to VNC Server 4.5 from standalone VNC Viewer. This application is freely available to download and run for any supported platform from the RealVNC web site. Note if you use standalone VNC Viewer, you cannot:

• Save connections to VNC Address Book. You can still save connections to desktop icons.

• Under Windows, print to a local printer if the host computer is running UNIX or Linux or Mac OS X. You can only print if the host computer is also running Windows.

Connecting from a web browser

You can connect to VNC Server 4.5 from a Java-enabled web browser. For more information, see Chapter 4, Connecting From A Web Browser. Note if you do this, you cannot:

• Print host computer files.

• Exchange files with the host computer.

• Chat with other connected users, or with a host computer user.

• Save connections to VNC Address Book or to desktop icons.

• Scale the host computer’s desktop.

VNC® Enterprise Edition User Guide

VNC^® Enterprise Edition User Guide