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Revision as of 17:45, 18 January 2008

See also on Wikipedia: VNC

VNC is an acronym which stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is software which allows graphical desktop connections. On the AS/400, a PC can connect to an XWindows session using VNC.

VNC refers to:

  • the server software
  • the server process which accepts the incoming connection
  • the client viewer software

Prerequisites

Starting VNC server processes

STRPTL CLIENT(*VNC)

[2]

CALL QP2SHELL PARM('/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/DeveloperTools/vnc/vncserver_java' ':n')
     ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(DISPLAY) VALUE('systemname:n')

where:

  • systemname is the host name or IP address of the iSeries system where VNC is running
  • n is the numeric value that represents the display number that you want to start[3]

Ending VNC server processes

CALL QP2SHELL PARM('/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/DeveloperTools/vnc/vncserver_java' '-kill' ':n')

where n is the numeric value that represents the display number that you want to terminate.<ref name="Start VNC Call QP2SHELL">


Connecting VNC client

References

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