On Friday 07 March 2003 03:41 pm, Justin Haaheim wrote: > Why would it be a bad idea to open, say, 5801 to the internet? That's > all I would need to open. I have realVNC running a mini http server > that pops up a java applet to run vnc. This is nice because then I can > run the remote desktop from anywhere that has a web browser with java. VNC runs unencrypted. You are better using X forwarding and compression with secure shell. For example: ssh -X -C username at host Then, from the $ there, run vncviewer 192.168.1.1:0 -- Thanks, James Spinti jspinti at dartdist dot com 952-368-3278 ext 396 fax 952-368-3255 _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list