Remote Desktop: the recipe.

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 22/01/2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> > On 22/01/2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Huh? What's this vncts package? This sounds interesting.
>
> It's a setup to let xinetd start instances of Xvnc that do localhost
> XDMCP logins for each connection.  Several ports are configured to give
> a choice of screen size and color depth.  I've only used it on the
> k12ltsp distribution but I think it is a stock fedora package.  K12ltsp
> is configured by default to accept XDMCP logins from thin clients and
> you might have to tweak this on a stock fedora.
>

Ah, ok, I thought perhaps it was a package in the Fedora repo. Shame.

I did post a very simple recipe for doing exactly this (vnc sessions
started with xinetd) on this list a few weeks ago actually - it really
does seem the simplest solution to me. (Subject of the message was
"VNC and a full login Gnome session with GDM "). Would be nice if this
was actully working out-of-the-box in a standard install, IMO.