Using noVNC in Windows

noVNC is an open source project that allows remote access to a target computer directly in the browser.

If accessing GitHub is slow, you can try replacing github.com with hub.fastgit.org in the following text.

Create a new node project#

# Create a new folder called novnc-server and navigate to it
cd novnc-server

# Initialize (press Enter for default settings)
npm init

Use websockify-js#

# Copy websockify.js from https://github.com/novnc/websockify-js/blob/master/websockify/websockify.js to the folder

# Install dependencies
yarn add ws optimist mime-types -S

Use noVNC#

# Clone noVNC or download the release from noVNC, here we clone directly
git clone https://github.com/novnc/noVNC.git

Start#

Add a start command in package.json.
The updated scripts section should look like this (5900 is the port set by the VNC server, 5901 is the port for external browser access):

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "node websockify.js --web ./noVNC 5901 localhost:5900",
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  }
}

Run yarn start to start.

You can also use pm2 for management (recommended), the processes.json file should be as follows:

{
  "apps": [
    {
      "name": "noVNC",
      "script": "websockify.js",
      "args": "--web ./noVNC 5901 localhost:5900"
    }
  ]
}

Run pm2 start processes.json to start in the background.

Getting Started#

Access http://ip:5901/vnc.html from another computer.

Public Network Usage#

pierced, core.pub, pinggy.io, bore.pub are worth having, but the latency may not be ideal, so you need to test it yourself.