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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
