Amos, I have used the vnc server and inetd like this in the past with good success. jdub posted about this as well some time ago.
http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2001/August/msg00730.html it may need some tweaking as inetd is deprecated, and has been replaced by xinetd. Regards, Martin Martin Visser On 10/31/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've setup a CentOS 5 headless server for our developers. I'd like to > provide each one of them with their own desktop. > > Back in the olden days it would have been done using XDMCP and having an X > server on the desktop, but today with Windows desktops, moving between > laptops and desktops, and at least one of the developers working regularly > from home over and ADSL line and VPN, the recommendation I get is to use NX > or VNC. > > Is there a standard practice to provide each of our developers a way to open > up their own X11 desktop in a convenient way? > > Right now the only way I can think off is to run multiple x-VNC desktops and > allocate each one of them to a separate user, but I'm still groping my way > through the NX stuff. > > Thanks, > > --Amos > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
