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On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 18:21, Kam Salisbury wrote:
> I am seeming to be missing something in the configuraiton of VNC with
> Xfree and Redhat9. For a reason unknown to me, the VNC session does not
> actually attach to the desktop of the currently logged in session on the
> desktop. I have the client configured for display 0 and the VNC server
> running display zero... anyone with some pointers?
"Because Windows in its present, standard incarnation, only supports a
single graphical user being logged in at any one time, WinVNC makes the
existing desktop of the PC available remotely, rather than creating a
separate desktop as happens with the Unix server."
-- http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/winvnc.html .
The behavior you describe is the intended function of the standard VNC
package on Unix-like systems. To get the functionality you desire, you
need to find a program called "x0rfbserver." Unfortunately, its
homepage appears to have disappeared from the 'net. However, it is
available in Debian testing/unstable as package "rfb," and there are
probably packages floating around for other distros.
One "neat" capability of VNC is to run a KDM/GDM/XDM login window in a
VNC session, all started from [x]inetd. This gives you the capability
for remote access for several users at once. See
http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~andre/extern/ixvnc.htm .
Michael F. Robbins
mike@gamerack.com
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