x0vncserver HowTo

[Jamie Bohr]

We run Windows on the Linux workstation in VMWare server.  Works pretty
good, there are issues when we copy an exsisting vm session to another
system, but that is another story.

The application is very graphic and CPU intensive, running it on a VM
doesn't work.  Good idea though.


Can I assume there is no functionality built into KDE & Gnome to start a
process when a person logs in (I am able to do this) and stop it when they
log out (this seems to be the problem)?


On 11/18/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 08:14, Jamie Bohr wrote:
> > The remote systems are Windows.  The company VPN client does not
> > support Linux too well and a majority (99.9%, especially labtops) of
> > the systems are running MS Windows.  The engineers want and need to
> > see their consoles remotely.
>
> OK, I was confused by your earlier comment about different
> users logging in and assumed they wanted to start different
> sessions.
>
> > I appreciate all the suggestions, please don't think I don't.  I have
> > talked with the engineers about all the solutions mentioned, none will
> > work because they involve stopping an already running appication and
> > fireing up vncserver (by what ever means) and then starting the
> > application again.  They want to be able to see their already running
> > desktop remotely.
>
> There is one other option to consider, especially if the
> application doesn't normally take a lot of interaction. You
> can run vncserver in the first place to start a session
> not connected to any console, connect to it with a viewer
> and start the app.  After that you can disconnect at
> any time and reconnect from other places.  The password
> used to connect is assigned specifically for vnc and
> doesn't have to be related to the user running the
> session.
>
>
> But, if you want to connect to the real console screen you
> are back to either x0vncserver or the X vnc module.
> I believe the latter is more efficient but will require one
> restart of X to get the module loaded.  Basically you
> edit your XF86Config or xorg.conf file to include:
> Load  "vnc"
> in the "Module" section and
> Option "passwordfile" "/path/to/passwd"
> in the "Screen" section and it will act as I described
> for vncserver except you connect to screen :0.
>
> While I'm rambling, I might as well mention one other thing
> that might be an option, again depending on the nature of
> the app.  You could run the whole server as a virtual
> machine under the free VMWare server.  The product includes
> a separate console viewer that works more or less like
> vnc and works cross-platform between linux and windows
> and again it would not be tied to a real screen but you
> could connect and run fullscreen from there if you wanted
> to make it look that way.
>
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