VNC ? again

David Vincent dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca
Thu Feb 28 05:26:34 UTC 2008


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David Vincent wrote:
> Wade Smart wrote:
>>  From the front office to the back of the school - the admin needs to be
>> able to control the screen - the mouse, point and click, etc, to show
>> the end user how to do, or how to fix something. Because of some out of
>> date district rules we cant install other software on the computers so,
>> I thought we could do it via the browser.
> 
> ahh.  you want the java web server enabled.  this blog may help:
> 
> http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2007/10/setup-vnc-server-for-ubuntu-gutsy.html
> 
> i've not tried it.

Here's another.  :)

http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/set-up-vnc-on-ubuntu-in-four-steps-317125.php

I used to set this up on Windows 2000 clients (Windows 2000 didn't have
a Remote Desktop option like XP and Vista have).  Being able to use a
browser and point it at http://host:5800 was very handy especially with
the advent of tabbed browsing - thank you Opera!

- -d

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