Remote Desktop Preferances uses localhost

Mark C lists at funkypenguin.net
Mon Oct 11 12:51:09 UTC 2004


Hi,

I'm just generally playing with some some of the apps in gnome 2.8 and 
tried out Vino, It works ok, except that it gives out the vnc server 
name as: localhost.localdomain:0

I cannot seem to find any GConf keeop to alter the setting either.
also the Help is broken, will enter this in bugzilla.

It could just be me, but this is a complete waste of time, if you send 
this to anyone, then all they are going to end up doing is to trying to 
connect to themselfs, rather than the target machine (ok, it's still a 
waste of time, if you send this to someone outside your own network, as 
you will probably be using a class C address).

I'm not sure whether this is an actual error, but wouldn't this be 
better to gather several options, either the actual hostname of the 
machine and/or the IP address, as this will generally only be used in 
internal situations, as the connection will be unencrypted, if system 
admins allow VNC to come/out into their internal network, then they need 
to be shot anyway :)


Mark




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