Hi Bruce, You can find xinetd setup instructions for VNC at:
http://www.realvnc.com/products/enterprise/4.2/man/Xvnc.html Current VNC Enterprise Edition don't yet provide session management functionality, but it's in development. With the session manager in use, users just log in to the server computer and get their existing desktop, or a new one, as appropriate. The session creation process is also scriptable, to allow load balancing over a pool of session server machines, provided that the user's home directory is shared across those machines so that VNC can track their desktops. Regards, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd > -----Original Message----- > From: bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 June 2007 14:09 > To: 'James Weatherall'; 'Alex Pelts' > Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com > Subject: RE: VNCServer configuration > > Hi James/Wez!! > > Thanks for the reply. This is what I was looking for, to > determine that > there is a way to allow multiple users to be able to access > VNC, without > having to have each user do an "ssh/start vncserver" and then login to > vnc!!! > > If I understand what you write, you're stating that the > Enterprise version > of VNC allows for persistent connections, to the user's > desktop. So multiple > users can pretty much simply login to the appropriately configured > VNCServer, using a standard user/passwd login dialog. And > that this process > uses the user's underlying system username/passwd... > > This also has only a single session/service of VNCServer > running, which is > started during the startup process. > > Did I miss anything? > > Thanks > > PS. With regards to the nonpersistent connections, can you point me to > material on how to set this up. My primary goal is that the > user not need to > do the "ssh, start vncserver, login" process, which requires > the user to > know the session ID. If I understand you, you're saying that > the vnc client > app would essentially cause the xinetd service to spawn a > VNCServer session > when the user connects via the client. How does the VNC > Server access the > user's linux/system username/passwd.. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of James Weatherall > Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:12 AM > To: 'bruce'; 'Alex Pelts' > Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com > Subject: RE: VNCServer configuration > > > Hi Bruce, > > If you don't need your VNC sessions to be persistent then you > can create an > xinetd service for VNC server, which will allow a new > VNC-based X server to > be created for each incoming VNC Viewer connection. The user > then logs in > using the normal X11 authentication dialogs, and closing the > VNC Viewer is > an implicit logout. > > If you need persistent VNC sessions per-user, via a single > entry point then > this can be achieved using VNC Enterprise Edition in > conjunction with the > VNC Session Manager. The Session Manager receives VNC Viewer > connections & > authenticates users using their normal Unix logon credentials > in order to > route them through to their existing VNC X server(s), or to > create a new VNC > X server for them. > > Regards, > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bruce > > Sent: 18 June 2007 20:34 > > To: 'Alex Pelts' > > Cc: vnc-list@realvnc.com > > Subject: RE: VNCServer configuration > > > > 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... Also, how do i go about > > configuring the system, > > > so the user can use their own system login user/passwd... > > > > > > thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > > > VNC-List mailing list > > > VNC-List@realvnc.com > > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > VNC-List@realvnc.com > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > VNC-List@realvnc.com > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
