On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 15:48 -0600, Roach, Dennis wrote:
> Does anyone have an idea on how to get vnc to work under RHEL4?
> I would like for all of the users to be able to come in on 1 port and use
> their Linux ID and password.
> I can get it to use the ID and password, but not the same port.
There is a way to run VNC out of (x)inetd that does EXACTLY what you
want. There's a number of HOWTOs on the 'Net, including:
http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/xvnc/
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xvnc_terminal_server
The Gentoo one works for me because I'm a Gentoo freak. :)
The one caveat to this process is that you cannot disconnect your VNC
session and expect to be able to reconnect it (this is something you can
do with the single-Xvnc-server-per-user method); running through
(x)inetd you can no longer do this, as shutting down your vncviewer will
kill the Xvnc session. You do get the benefit of only having Xvnc
servers running in support of real connected users, rather than having
an Xvnc running for all the users that might ever connect.
I feel compelled to make the standard disclaimer -- running VNC on
zSeries Linux is probably not the best use of your MIPS, and you are
likely to be disappointed in performance if you try and support a number
of users... However, it's a *great* system to set up to show off how
"Linux is Linux, even on the mainframe"! :)
Cheerio,
Vic Cross
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