My question remains: What does the -inet option to Xvnc do? Is it a nice combination of -nevershared and -once or is there some port negotiation in the connection setup?
Thanks CBee > from what i understand getting the inetd option working > enables you to run > the vncserver as a daemon/service rather than manually > launching it from a > shell. That's somehow true, the url explains how to set it up. That part works well. > it automagically spawns a vncserver process when it is seeing > a connection > on the specified port. That's not VNC, it's inetd (or xinetd) that spawns the Xvnc. > it also lets you vnc into the linux box at a resolution you want. > we use the -inetd option here to keep the server from having > one session up > all the time. we connect as we need it, and when we are > finished it kills > the server. That's not realy true. It's the -once option that kills the session once the connection with the vncviewer is lost. It's the -nevershared option that disallows the take-over. > one caveat to this is that you cannot share the desktop with others, > meaning that once you are done you can't come back later. > > > Finaly I got xvnc running from inetd (thanks to > http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp, > please put this > link > in the FAQ). > > Here Xvnc is started with the -inetd options. All I can find > on this is > "Xvnc is launced by inetd". But what does it realy do? Does it disable > other > options? does it change default settings? > > I find the next differences: > - No second access to the same server: using the same port > number gives a > new session, using the 590x number where x is the display > number gives a > failed connection message. > - No http access to http://machine:580x/ or to http://machine:59xx/ > - Once the connection is lost, the session is killed. > Most of the above can be either due to the -inetd option or > due to inetd > itself. > > > Regards > > CBee > > > --- > Corni Beerse > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > talkto:+31(71)5256660 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
