[LUAU] Ok VNC newbie question...
Since this installation needs graphics, and we'd like to avoid needing to purchase X11 servers for all the students (VNC is at least free) AND the server is accessed through an SSL-VPN so I don't have to teach the students how to SSH tunnel at this time...drum roll please... Does anyone know of a procedure to kill the GUI login on the server (not needed anyway but I can live with it if that's a problem) but use VNC to get the regular CentOS gui login so that the students can run some Linux based visualization software in a graphical environment. In summary, I'd like to use VNC to connect to a server, prompt the user for their Linux username and password (Centos 5.7) and then get their appropriate desktop. Basically as if they're sitting at the physical machine. Got suggestions? I found this one specifically about SUSE ( http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2003-March/037862.html) but is there a better way to do this? /brian chee -- University of Hawaii SOEST Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL) Brian Chee c...@hawaii.edu 2525 Correa Road, HIG 500 Honolulu, HI 96822 Office: 808-956-5797 ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Ok VNC newbie question...
In summary, I'd like to use VNC to connect to a server, prompt the user for their Linux username and password (Centos 5.7) and then get their appropriate desktop. Basically as if they're sitting at the physical machine. Got suggestions? I found this one specifically about SUSE ( http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2003-March/037862.html) but is there a better way to do this? Hey Brian, This isn't exactly what you are looking for, but have you looked into using xrdp [1]? It's a windows remote desktop server for Linux and is pretty nice. The only thing I'm not sure about is the access through SSL-VPN. [1] http://www.xrdp.org/ Jason ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Ok VNC newbie question...
That's exactly what I want...now if I can only get RDP (I'm using CORD) to connectI just get a black screen...am reading the FAQ's now to see if I missed something. /brian chee On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Jason Axelson bostonvaul...@gmail.comwrote: In summary, I'd like to use VNC to connect to a server, prompt the user for their Linux username and password (Centos 5.7) and then get their appropriate desktop. Basically as if they're sitting at the physical machine. Got suggestions? I found this one specifically about SUSE ( http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2003-March/037862.html) but is there a better way to do this? Hey Brian, This isn't exactly what you are looking for, but have you looked into using xrdp [1]? It's a windows remote desktop server for Linux and is pretty nice. The only thing I'm not sure about is the access through SSL-VPN. [1] http://www.xrdp.org/ Jason ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org -- University of Hawaii SOEST Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL) Brian Chee c...@hawaii.edu 2525 Correa Road, HIG 500 Honolulu, HI 96822 Office: 808-956-5797 ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
Re: [LUAU] Ok VNC newbie question...
Yup...actually 99%, the only thing I have to fuss around with is the Hyper-V integration services...something is broken there since I can't issue a shutdown (ACPI style) from the Hyper-V console...which is a bad thing for autoshutdown in case of power failures, etc... /brian On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Jason Axelson bostonvaul...@gmail.comwrote: Cool, I'm glad it's (mostly) working for you. Jason On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Brian Chee c...@hawaii.edu wrote: Never mind...I just wasn't patient enough...it works right out of the boxbitchin solution and now I don't have to teach the kids about VNC until laternow to see if Radiance will work...berkeley opensource project to simulate lighting for 3D AutoCAD drawings. /brian chee On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Brian Chee c...@hawaii.edu wrote: That's exactly what I want...now if I can only get RDP (I'm using CORD) to connectI just get a black screen...am reading the FAQ's now to see if I missed something. /brian chee On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Jason Axelson bostonvaul...@gmail.com wrote: In summary, I'd like to use VNC to connect to a server, prompt the user for their Linux username and password (Centos 5.7) and then get their appropriate desktop. Basically as if they're sitting at the physical machine. Got suggestions? I found this one specifically about SUSE ( http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2003-March/037862.html) but is there a better way to do this? Hey Brian, This isn't exactly what you are looking for, but have you looked into using xrdp [1]? It's a windows remote desktop server for Linux and is pretty nice. The only thing I'm not sure about is the access through SSL-VPN. [1] http://www.xrdp.org/ Jason ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org -- University of Hawaii SOEST Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL) Brian Chee c...@hawaii.edu 2525 Correa Road, HIG 500 Honolulu, HI 96822 Office: 808-956-5797 -- University of Hawaii SOEST Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL) Brian Chee c...@hawaii.edu 2525 Correa Road, HIG 500 Honolulu, HI 96822 Office: 808-956-5797 ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org -- University of Hawaii SOEST Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL) Brian Chee c...@hawaii.edu 2525 Correa Road, HIG 500 Honolulu, HI 96822 Office: 808-956-5797 ___ LUAU@lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org mailing list http://lists.freesoftwarehawaii.org/listinfo.cgi/luau-freesoftwarehawaii.org
