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What port does VNC use? What is a display?

VNC typically has one server per user running. It also typically assigns desktop (or ``display'') numbers in sequence, starting with '1' for the first instance created, as in the example in Subsection 1.6. To each desktop corresponds a port number. The port number is computed as port= display + 5900. So in the above case, the VNC server is listening for connections on port 5901.



Lars Vilhuber 2007-11-13