[H-GEN] vnc ports?

[Michael Anthon]

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David wrote:
> Can anyone tell me which ports I need to open in a firewall to allow vnc 
> access?

By default VNC uses port 5900 + n, where n is the display number.  So 
display :0 is 5900, :1 is 5901 and so on.  I have run VNC over ssh 
tunnels at times, quite simple and works pretty well.  Depending on 
which compression scheme you use in VNC using compression on the tunnel 
may make things better or worse.

Cheers
Michael


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