On Mar 19, 2020, at 2:00 PM, Alexander Heintz wrote: > OsX is as much a UNIX flavor as we are basically primates. > > BSD split in 75 from UNIX and NEXTSTEP in 86 from BSD. > > don't know why, but AFAIK the MacOS is not suited for multiple concurrent > user sessions.
Good that you prefaced your statement with “AFAIK”, because you don’t know. macOS has supported multiple simultaneous users on the same machine with each having their own U macOS Lion 10.7. So it’s been around for a long time. Very easy to use from one Mac to another using built in Screen Sharing application. You can also do it from a Windows machine but you need to get the right VNC app that supports the new protocol and user login. VNC Viewer works. https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/viewer/ Apple put a limit of 5 simultaneously connected users with macOS 10.13 High Sierra. Before that you could do many more if you had a powerful Mac — same as if you were doing this on Windows with Terminal Server. Here’s a link with a lot of details, for those that want to know more: https://superuser.com/questions/125636/can-a-mac-be-used-by-multiple-users-at-same-time Also, here are a couple of screenshots I took from my Mac Mini server running 10.13 with 2 Screen Sharing sessions active at the same time. Two users: “Administrator" and “Screen User” are configured. Just to show an example of how it works. When you connect to a Mac with Screen Sharing you have to specify a user name and password. You can get the dialog box below if you are trying to connect with an account that it already knows. Just select another account to log in again with a new Screen Sharing connection: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/0x3gvnasf57otz3/ScreenShare%20Connect%20Confirm.PNG Then you get the macOS login screen. Select the user account and enter the password. (You can save all this to the Keychain so you don’t have to double login every time.) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/tpsjwvzb7t96ql2/LoginScreen.PNG Here are the 2 sessions running side-by-side on my iMac Pro. Notice it is the same Mac Mini computer, but with two users. Each has it’s own Desktop, Dock and all that stuff. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/9x3xm5zpt1lgu2x/TwoUserScreenShare.PNG It is super easy to set this up and use. A lot easier than doing the same thing on Windows with Terminal Server and using RDC. But then you would expect that since it is a Macintosh… right? 😀 Tim ***************************************** Tim Nevels Innovative Solutions 785-749-3444 [email protected] ***************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
