Re: Will other VNC viewers work with a Tight VNC server? -- Re: Linux Mint 20 VNC setup

Have a look at xtightvncviewer, especially the -via option.

Boris

Am 21.08.20 um 00:52 schrieb Fran_3 via VNC-Tight-list:
> I'm setting up a Linux machine running Linux Mint 20.
> I'm relatively new to Linux.
> 
> I don't see Tight VNC server or viewer in the Linux Mint 20 repository
> via...
> $ apt search vnc
> or via the Gui Software Manager.
> 
> This off-site computer has to be able to connect to a remote Windows 10
> PC running Tight VNC server
> 
> 1 - Will any VNC viewer work with Tight VNC server?
> 2 - Any particular VNC viewer (and VNC server) in the Linux Mint 20
> repository that is recommended?
> 
> Backstory:
> 
> We are currently doing this with another off-site computer running
> Windows 10 and Tignt VNC viewer as follows...
> 
> We connect the off-site Windows PC running Tight VNC viewer to a Linux
> box at the main site using Putty and then are able to connect to the
> main site's Windows 10 PC running VNC server.
> 
> The Linux box at the main site is simply running Linux Ubuntu and we get
> to it via a designated open port on our router.
> 
> All this was originally done using MobiXterm on the off-site PC but we
> recently wrote a Windows batch file to do the job and it works fine.
> 
> Once the off-site Linux Mint 20 box is working we will re-write the
> Windows batch file for the Linux command line interpreter (bash I think
> its called)
> 
> but before we go forward we need make sure we install VNC on the Linux
> Mint 20 box...
> And, actually, we would like to install both VNC viewer and VNC server
> on that box so that it too can be remotely accessed.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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