Remote Desktop: the recipe.

[Les Mikesell]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>>> http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Configuring_Remote_Desktop
>> Your comment about a port conflict with vncserver isn't generally true.    The
>> libvnc.so X module would use port 5900 but vncserver is used to start
>> independent frame buffer sessions that take screen numbers starting with :1
>> and corresponding port numbers of 5900 + screen number which would not
>> conflict.
> 
> i sort of knew that, but i wanted to keep it simple.  i'm going to go
> back and fix it after i clean up the VNC stuff, and maybe combine it
> in one big page.
> 
>> And to confuse things a bit more, the vncts package that starts new
>> sessions on demand through xinetd would also conflict in a different
>> way.
> 
> *sigh*.  and i was feeling so pleased with myself ...

Vncts gives you a fresh login screen each time you connect and can do it 
for many users at the same time, all thinking they are connecting to 
screen :0.  I've only used it in the k12ltsp variations of fedora/centos 
(where it is enabled by default) and it probably depends on having gdm 
configured to permit additional sessions.

If you find a way to get libvnc.so working, please post it though.  I'd 
enable that on some of my machines if I could make it work again.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com