Connecting To Nokia N800 From a Computer Using VNC

Setting Up Nokia N800 for VNC Access Using `x11vnc`

1. Install x11vnc application on the Nokia N800. Either download the x11vnc deb package on the PC, transfer it to N800 and install it; or download and install it directly from N800.

   

2. You need to run x11vnc server in your Nokia N800 now. From the applications menu, go to Extras and select the x11vnc application. You can also run it from the terminal if you want to see its output messages.

   

3. Next note down the IP address of your Nokia N800 device. Go to [Applications Menu] -> Tools -> Connection Manager.

   

   From the Connection Manager top menu, select Internet Connection -> IP Address. I assume it to be 192.168.2.10 for the purposes of this tutorial.

   

   

Accessing Nokia N800′s screen from Windows:

Download TightVNC Viewer application for Windows and extract it at a convenient location.



Run the TightVNC Viewer executable, enter the IP address( as noted in the previous section) in the pop-up dialog box, and click the Connect button.



Enjoy accessing N800′s screen comfortably using PC’s keyboard/mouse :)
(Experiment with the different settings in TightVNC viewer at your leisure.)



Accessing Nokia N800′s screen from GNU/Linux:

Chances are high that a VNC client is already installed on your GNU/Linux distribution. To test for one client, try the ‘vncviewer ––help’ command:



If you see the version information as displayed above, it means vncviewer is installed on your computer. You can run the following command to connect to the N800(substitute the IP address of *your* N800 below that you had noted above):

sh# vncviewer 192.168.2.10:0



And you should be up and running just as in Windows.

If you get an error though that the vncviewer command is not found on your system, then either some other VNC client application may be installed on your distribution(check in the menus) or perhaps you need to install a VNC client manually. vncviewer was already there on my Ubuntu, Fedora, openSuse, Linux Mint etc. ; if that is not the case with you, search for a VNC client in your distribution repositories or on the web.

Just by installing a ~500KB VNC server application x11vnc on the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet you can access its screen from any computer by using any of the available VNC client software for your favourite operating system. You can connect N800 to a computer through ssh in the same way, if there is no GUI present for example, but let that be a topic for another post.