Thanks Tim, live and learn… Will look into this over the weekend.
Cheers Stay safe Alex > Am 19.03.2020 um 20:44 schrieb Tim Nevels via 4D_Tech <[email protected]>: > > 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] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 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] **********************************************************************
