[K12OSN] VNC

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 05:27, John Hegarty wrote:

> The error I am getting with VNC on the 3rd or 4th person connecting is
> simply "connection closed". If one person ends their session then
> another can get in immediately. Is there something about the way that
> VNC works that causes this? Am I simply expecting VNC to do something
> it wasn't designed to do.

It isn't vnc imposing the limit.  Try running gdmconfig and under
the XDMCP tab increase the nunber of displays per host.  All the Xvnc
connections will appear to be coming from the local host.


> I am playing a bit with NX as a possible alternative but the fact that
> I can put a single file on the windows desktops (vncviewer) and that
> it requires no installation or configuration makes vnc an attractive,
> though some are telling me not very efficient, solution to making the
> linux server available to the windows machines. 

Maybe you can come up with a way to automate the NX install or put it on
a shared drive since the configurations will all be the same.  If you
see any real differences in performance or efficiency between the
approaches, please post them.

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  Les Mikesell
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