Am Donnerstag, den 23.06.2005, 22:34 +0200 schrieb Hamish Whittal: > I have seem some discussion around VNC. Can one remotely take control of > a thin client desktop using VNC?
Yes you can, assuming you know userid and which display to use, do something like the following su - alice DISPLAY=192.168.0.117:0 x11vnc -rfbport 5900 this should start a vnc server to which you can connect with xtightvncviewer localhost:0 (notice: the vnc session number equals rfbport - 5900) Of course you could create scriptwork that does all this for you. You _really_ _should_ read the x11vnc additional information, because this is way insecure. You could set a password, and you could restrict it to a viewing-only display, and scale it by .75 (three quarter of the original size) and so on. Usually, the session will be closed automatically after the first vnc client connection terminates (which most probably is you want) - this can be changed as well. And you should think about privacy, of course. Spying on users could be fun. It will not if they find out. Hth Anselm ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ 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
