Re: single desktop per user with vncserver through inetd
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 00:31, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:45:22AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > I really don't see what the OP's problem is... the vncserver package comes
> > with documentation on how to set it up through inetd to provide an xdm
> > chooser on connect via XDMCP. I have it configured so on all the other
> > boxen in the house so that anyone can use any box from anywhere.
>
> I have tried that thank you.
>
> But there is one thing that it doesn't do that I want.
>
> *one persistant desktop per user accessable from seperate hosts*.
>
> If you use the inetd trick, you can get several sessions with the same user,
> and if you want to login from another host you get a different instance of
> your desktop and apps.
>
> The only way I've been able to get this is with one port per user, and tell
> my users what port is theirs, and load all of the user's desktops on startup
> of the server (a linux "desktop" server to win32 clients).
>
> If you have more suggestions I'm all ears (or eyes ;).
>
> Mike
>
Mike,
how about defining multiple ip-addresses on your 'server', with each
having their own hostname and running a user unique vnc server on
each?
Sincerely,
Jan.
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