Hello all,

I just setup a Java development environment on my CentOS machine. I created a VNC account and am able to connect to it from a client.

The thing is I developed a sample application in my VNC account and am accessing it in firefox on VNC like

now how should I access this application from my Windows firefox. I tried

and it failed to connect. I guess I am missing something in latter URL.

Can somebody help me out?

What's that got to do with the VNC in the title?

I would imagine that port 9998 is closed by the CentOS firewall. Try opening that first.

Hye billy,

Yes it does seem confusing. Let me shed some light on the reason I did so...

Scenario
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I have two VNC accounts A(192.158.12:1) and B(192.158.1.12:2). Now I am using the same link on both accounts to run the application. Till here its fine.

Question
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How does the Windows figure out, which application to open? A or B? port :1 or :2? That is why I got confused.

Oh and that worked like a jolly. Thanks. Will surely check this setting before posting from now on.

What's a VNC account, and what does the notation 195.158.1.12:1 mean?

VNC account means i created a VNC server on my Linux machine. Then, I created 2 user accounts, and did the setting in vncserver service so that they can be accessed using a VNC client. On the VNC client, I type this hostname to connect remotely to my Linux user account. :1 means that it will use port no. 5901 by default on the Linux machine.

That's what I'd assumed initially, but if you are connecting to the web server through http, I couln't work out where it fitted (and still can't).

if you are actually using VNC from windows, you tell the client which distplat (1 or 2) to use, but again, I don't see how this ties in with firefox (from Windows)