I got a Wii - for the kids, yeah, right - several months back, but we didn't open it until Christmas. Now that we have it fired up, we love it, of course, but there is one thing I cannot seem to do that seems like it should be possible, and highly desirable (so that others have done it?).
I want to use a VNC client from my Wii - to connect to a Mac.
Really, I want a web based VNC client, like the Windows Remote Desktop comes with (if you turn on RD in Windows you can browse to ip:port/remotedesktop.html - like this). Which I presume is really a part of the SERVER setup, meaning the server includes a little HTTP host and some means to allow HTTP based VNC clients.
I recall back in the day that the AT&T labs VNC did this too.
But, I don't use Windows. The built in Apple Remote Desktop stuff (which is VNC based) doesn't have an HTTP client portion (none that I can find - but it seems like a no brainer to include that?), and other third party OS X servers (VINE) don't seem to either.
So, any ideas? How can I VNC into a Mac running OS X from a Wii?
Is there some kind of native Wii VNC client available? Alternatively, is there some kind of Mac VNC server that includes the HTTP client part?
I have searched high and low, but not found anything promising, please enlighten me.
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I want to say there is an
I want to say there is an AJAX VNC client out there. You know, too, you could adapt the code project from Chapter 11 and write your own :)
Might write my own
I have actually been contemplating writing my own, but didn't even think of AJAX-Ch11. I was just planning on checking into a Wii SDK and what runs natively, and building/adapting one. Ch 11 better/faster/more portable idea though.
AJAX VNC
There are a few out there, I am gonna try this one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxvnc.
Wii Opera SDK
. . . or maybe wrap the below SDK in GWT, and use the other Ch11 stuff, so that it could take full advantage of the wiimote.
http://hullbreachonline.com/wii/sdk.html