Bruce- We have our users start up their own vncservers. The user initially logs into the machine (telnet, ssh, etc.) and issues a vncserver command:
vncserver -geometry 1024x768 They will then be given the following info: *** Reading user's xstartup file VNC Server Enterprise Edition E4.2.6 - built Jul 27 2006 10:19:03 Copyright (C) 2002-2006 RealVNC Ltd. See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. Running applications in /home/mikeyb/.vnc/xstartup Log file is /home/mikeyb/.vnc/happybox.domain.com:2.log New desktop is happybox.domain.com:2 **** The user then can point his/her vncviewer to happybox.domain.com:2... Depending on how the ~/.vnc/xstartup file reads, is which window manager gets displayed. The first one to get on the machine will get :1, the next :2, so on so forth. As Alex mentions, the load will depend on what each user is doing. Keep an eye out on load. An overloaded machine is a sure fire way to make you very popular. **** Here is our default xstartup (we have RHEL and Solaris in our environment): **** #!/bin/sh [ -r ${HOME}/.Xdefaults ] && xrdb -merge ${HOME}/.Xdefaults [ -r ${HOME}/.Xresources ] && xrdb -merge ${HOME}/.Xresources vncconfig -nowin & if [ "`uname`" = "Linux" ] then /usr/bin/startkde & else /usr/dt/bin/Xsession & sleep 30 xset s blank fi **** Hope that this helps- Best Regards- Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bruce Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 1:31 PM To: 'Alex Pelts' Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: RE: VNCServer configuration Alex... >From your scenario. I start the server. I have VNCServer as a service, which gets started when the server is started. A user goes to login, using VNC. How does the user know which port to use? How does the user know which user/passwd to use? You're stating that every user should have the same user/passwd, which implies that every user is also going to have the same desktop/state. This doesn't sound right. It was my understanding that each user should be able to essentially have their own 'desktop' when lokking in/using vnc... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Pelts Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 1:05 PM To: bruce Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: VNCServer configuration If any of the users is logged in other users will see what she/he is doing. I am not sure if that is what you want. If you do, then setup vnc server and give everyone the same password. That is it. There is no need for port. If you do not want this behavior then vnc is not for you. I do not know any way to protect one user from another using vnc. The only way to use vnc is for all users to see the same screen. It is not different for EE vs free edition. There are some added features in EE like encryption and better authentication. You can also start multiple vnc servers one per user but this is too resource intensive, just like running multiple X servers on one machine. Alex bruce wrote: > also, if this can't be accomplished with the open source vnc, can it > be handled using the enterprise version... i'm assuming it can, > otherwise, vncserver/client is severley limited... > > thanks > > > hi... > > there's still a confusion. > > i have a linux box: > i have vncserver running on the box > i want to have multiple users be able to remotely access the server > using vnc > > > how can this be accomplished? > > normally, you need to know the "port" in use for the vncserver > session. if you have mulitple users, each user won't know the port to > use when logging in. > > also, how do you setup vncserver to use the underlying system user/passwd... > > > thanks > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Alex Pelts > Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 8:26 PM > To: bruce > Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com > Subject: Re: VNCServer configuration > > > Vnc does not work like this. You will need to run multiple instances > of vnc server, which is X server. This will quickly bring performance > of your host down. > Vnc designed to access one instance of X server remotely it is nothing > like a windows terminal server as far as user environment is concerned. > It is more like XP remote desktop. > > With vnc EE you can use unix login facilities so your users will have > same password for vnc as they have for the rest of the system. > What ever you are trying to do is not efficient with vnc but it can be > done by starting multiple vnc servers and giving each user his own. > > Alex > > bruce wrote: >> Hi.. >> >> I'm trying to figure out how to setup VNC Server on linux boxes, so >> that I >> can have users login, who can then access their own instance of the > server. >> This would require that they be able to log in without knowing the >> port before logging in... I don't want the user to mix their session >> with the session of someone else... 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