lurking on this list some time ,so I thought I would give out a "hi everybody!"
On to bidness. I have been pondering the value of adding a few "Enhancements" to VNC and would like to know what ya'll might think of them... The first thing would be a true default port, my thought is vnc would always listen on current default 5900 and when a user connects a list of current sessions running would be displayed, that they may or may not be able to connect depending on the password that was entered, or have the option to create a new session. This would be very helpful in UNIX world where their may be many separate desktops running at the same time and user may (or may not) know what port will connect them to their desktop. In addition there is always the chance that when their Xvnc server dies that another user may take over their port, causing a state of user confusion. I do not think this would require any changes to the client, because the chooser would actually be server side. This would take place right after the connection to the server was made. It could be even further enhanced to add true multi-user authentication (that the correct session is selected based upon the username), though that would mean modifying the servers + clients. Doh! authentication is the first thing client expects (well that and a few setup variables such as color maps, and window size, rfb version. Perhaps the server can cache the authentication the client sends and try that password when the user selects an existing session (or selects a new session), then pass that password when the session is selected. Which brings me to the second "Enhancement". Fixing the authentication method so the client does not have to start from scratch every time it fails but allow retries until max failure is reached (which the server *sorta does*). But this would require clients that handled authentication differently and might a LOT more work... Any thoughts, or if something like this has been implemented or would like to help implement this, please lemme know. Regards, Justin Spears _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
