Actually w/ OSx you can run OSXvnc from Redstone and have as many users
that are logged on via fast switching. That's the big rub though as the
users have to log on to the actual mac first. No device access or sound
would be another problem.
Paul Greidanus wrote:
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Nov 22, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Derek Konigsberg wrote:
The SunRay needs its own server software, which Sun currently makes
for Solaris (SPARC and x86) and a few x86 Linux distributions. Not
sure it'll be useful for more than a doorstop without this software
running on a machine on your network.
http://www.sun.com/software/sunray/index.xml
PCs made more than six months ago can usually be found on the curb
on trash day, and one can pick up Ultra1 machines all day on eBay for
< US$20. Either would be more than sufficient to boot a couple of Sun
Rays.
The problem, though, is that while MacOS X runs X11 applications
very well, its *native* windowing system is not X11 and is not readily
networkable. In other words you won't be able to display the majority
of MacOS X apps on the Sun Ray. It might be practical to run
something like VNC to do this, though.
Crazy option number 3 might work:
Linux/Solaris box running as the sunray server ->
Mac box running Linux ->
user starts up a maconlinux session, which starts up a OSX virtual
machine, which is displayed through X11 through the tunnel.
I've tried this, with limited success due to some weird video problems
that I wasn't able to track down, but that was for lack of trying, so it
should be possible.
In theory you could use the MOL (maconlinux) session as the window
manager, and have the sunray server redirect directly to the GDM session
on the Mac box..
All in all, it's not trivial, and might not work.
VNC might do the trick, but only for one user at a time.
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