On 09/03/2012 02:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: >> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Bogstad >> >> I frequently like to set things up so that I can simultaneously log into >> the same desktop configuration from multiple workstations. It's fairly >> easy to set up file access (NFS) and authentication (LDAP or NIS) to allow >> logins and access to the same home directory. Unfortunately, my >> experience in the past has been that modern Linux desktop system keep >> enough state in ones home directory that having two logins using the same >> set of configuration/state files at the same time is going to result in odd >> behavior. >> >> Does anybody know if any version of GNOME, KDE, or equivalent system >> actively support such usage? > Nothing supports behavior like that, but very few things seem to have *real* > problems. I frequently encounter users who have multiple VNC sessions to the > same machine, and when I tell them they shouldn't do that, they most often > say "Oh, I didn't know." > > Why don't you just create one session and reuse it? For example, create a > VNC session, and just keep connecting to the same VNC session from all your > different clients? We have the same situation. I generally use VNC to one host, then if I need to access another host, simply open up an ssh window. I also run vncconfig so I can easily copy/paste to my Windows 7 workstation, so I don't run Firefox in VNC.
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