Remote Desktop: the recipe.

[Les Mikesell]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 22/01/2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jonathan Underwood wrote:
>>> On 22/01/2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> And to confuse things a bit more, the vncts package that starts new
>>>> sessions on demand through xinetd would also conflict in a different way.
>>> Huh? What's this vncts package? This sounds interesting.
>> It's a setup to let xinetd start instances of Xvnc that do localhost
>> XDMCP logins for each connection.  Several ports are configured to give
>> a choice of screen size and color depth.  I've only used it on the
>> k12ltsp distribution but I think it is a stock fedora package.  K12ltsp
>> is configured by default to accept XDMCP logins from thin clients and
>> you might have to tweak this on a stock fedora.
>>
> 
> Ah, ok, I thought perhaps it was a package in the Fedora repo. Shame.

I thought it was - just not installed by default, but it looks like the 
one I have is from the vnc-ltsp-config package.

> I did post a very simple recipe for doing exactly this (vnc sessions
> started with xinetd) on this list a few weeks ago actually - it really
> does seem the simplest solution to me. (Subject of the message was
> "VNC and a full login Gnome session with GDM "). Would be nice if this
> was actully working out-of-the-box in a standard install, IMO.

It's one of several reasons that I always install k12ltsp even if I 
don't plan on booting thin clients.  K12ltsp isn't a different 
distribution in the usual sense - it is a fedora/centos (depending on 
the version) respin with the current updates applied at the time of its 
release and some extra packages and scripts included - one of which 
makes vnc sessions-on-demand come up working by default.

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   Les Mikesell
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