hey, thanks for the link. But this site looks completely "theorethical" or "abstract" for me - there isn`t any link to solutions/implementations for what they keep in mind. On the first view, this just looks like "Propagating the Linux based "NC" as an enterprise solution" for me. (or did I miss a link?)
regards Roland PS: >Sun's SunRays are something similar in the proprietary world. and very cool - indeed (already mentioned below) ;) ----- Original Message ----- From: "John McCreesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 10:48 PM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] session management in vnc like in citrix or sunray ? > I think the guys at netproject http://www.netproject.com have done > something like this in the open-source world, where users can move > seamlessly from one workstation to another. Sun's SunRays are something > similar in the proprietary world. > > John > > On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 22:12:33 +0100 > "roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Terminalguys :) > > > > I already posted this mail to the vnc mailinglist - but I think a posting > > here will give me more feedback about this. As far as I can see, the > > "roaming Desktop" feature in Thin Computing with Linux is still to be done. > > With X itself, we have no option - it would be VERY difficult to implement, > > because how should one tell the X-App that the User "moved" from Terminal A > > to Terminal B ? Perhaps some sort of "X-Proxy" would be an option - but I > > think, the most compromising approach for this, is to enhance VNC for that > > purpose. > > Please give me feedback, what you think. > > Since i`m sysadmin/sysengineer i`m not very good in programming, but if > > there is interest, I would at least try to start and maintain a project, > > which aims at giving "session management" (and loadbalancing???...) feature > > to VNC. > > > > regards > > Roland > > > > > > > > ---------------- > > > > hello! > > > > i`m using a setup of xvnc under inetd and kdm control, so each user can > > connect and get`s his own desktop. noone has to "fiddle around" with > > dedicated port-numbers, which he has to connect to. this makes the "linux > > terminal server alterative" become somewhat realitiy, but unfortunaly, we > > loose the "preserve session state"-feature of vnc here, because each time > > the user closes vncviewer, the serving xvnc process dies. > > see very good docs at: > > http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp > > > > I wonder, if there is anybody around, thinking of implementing a layer of > > "session management" into vnc, that users can reconnect to (one of) his > > previously established and disconnected session(s). > > > > This would make the "roaming desktop" possible - without the need, to assign > > dedicated port numbers to users and pre-spawning xnvc processes for ALL of > > them. > > > > It could be done by adding a "dispatcher" in front (or inside?) xvnc which > > is able to manage sessions previously established. sure, some sort of > > authentication needs to be done at this level, because the only reasonable > > way to re-establish sessions and to route it to the appropriate client, is > > to get known, WHO is reconnecting. > > > > I administer citrix servers, which have this feature - when the user > > reconnects he is routed to his old session. if he has more than one > > disconnected session, he can choose, which he wants to re-establish. I also > > have some experience with sunray terminals - which have this feature in "2 > > flavours". The user is able to re-establish a disconnected session by > > entering login/password OR by using a smartcard (whereas the sunray x-server > > process[==xvnc] is "bound" to a smartcard - so the user inserts his > > smartcard at any terminal and gets back his personal desktop) > > > > are there any solutions around or is there any work in progress, > > implementing > > this with vnc ? > > i`m really shure this IS possible with reasonable effort. (unfortunately i`m > > awful bad programmer, otherwise i would do that myself :) > > > > regards > > roland > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! > > Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and > > the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
