On 3/8/13 12:29 PM, Brian Hinz wrote: > One problem that my approach has is that there is nothing preventing > people from starting sessions on multiple machines, so this tends to > happen and then they can't understand why firefox says that there's > another instance running, etc. It would be nice to have a portal-type > application that could provide a single point of entry which displays > any current sessions for the whole cluster and gives the option of > selecting one of those or creating a new session. > > Also, DRC mentioned something on the TurboVNC list the other day about > one of his customer's possibly open sourcing their portal app. Not sure > about any details yet, maybe he can weigh in.
It's in the works, but I don't have a definite timeframe yet. I don't want to talk about it too much until I have code in hand. I can say, however, that it will be similar to what Victor described earlier in the thread. The user logs into a web site and sees a list of their current sessions, and they can choose to connect to an existing one or start a new one. They can also see a heads-up display of other users who are connected to other machines in the cluster, and they can request a collaborative session with one of the other users. This will probably be released as a separate open source project, so hypothetically, it could support TigerVNC as well as TurboVNC, but TigerVNC would have to be extended to handle TightVNC-compatible .vnc connection files, one-time password support, and session access control lists. At the moment, the portal just dynamically generates a .vnc file and downloads it to the client machine so that it can be opened by a local install of the TurboVNC viewer. In the long term, I'd like to add the ability to launch the Java viewer via JWS as well. I'm certainly open to outside contributions that would enable the use of TigerVNC or any other VNC flavor within that environment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users
