Stephen Rowles wrote: >> Does anyone know if there are there any GPL equivalents to this >> commercial product? >> >> http://www.thinstuff.com/products/lx-server/ >> >> ( a multi-user X server combined with an RDP (remote desktop) server ) >> >> I want to give (Windows) desktop users access to a remote copy of the >> Firefox web browser running on a firewalled and sandboxed Linux server. >> Basically I need a multi-user X server combined with a VNC or RDP >> server. I don't want a whole remote Linux desktop, just a remote >> Firefox window for several users. >> >> Simon > > I think what you want is xrdp: > > http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/ > > Simply install a linux distro, set up users, they log in using windows > remote desktop client with their own userid and password. > > Suse has a package that seems to work perfectly out of the box, I've not > quite got it configured right yet.. I can connect via remote desktop but > cannot actually get an X session :) >
xrdp sounds perfect - but it looks unmaintained and not quite finished? However it pointed me towards Xvncserver, which although serves up whole desktops, looks like it may do the job. Simon -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
