Remote desktop via GDM

Johnny2Bad

Johnny2Bad

Hi folks (and merry Christmas),
I was wondering whether it was possible to have multiple users logged into GNOME via remote desktop. I was thinking rather than have one desktop multiple users could log into GNOME via GDM.

As it stands you can use remote desktop for the person currently logged in but not for multiple accounts.

Has anybody got any ideas on this?

Thanking you in advance,
Jonathan.

PS-: Gnome 2.32.1_3 and FreeBSD 8.2
 
Hello Johnny2Bad,

A while back I needed to do the same and I found two solutions, neither of which are 100% perfect.

1) You could use XDMCP for GDM so that users can connect using X11 (Xnest -query "serverip"). This however is only feasible over a network because X11 isnt compressed etc...

2) You could use VNC but generate a unique gdm session just before the user connects. The tricky part is making it easy for the user to generate a session. Perhaps if they can use ssh or you could set up a very simple php web page to execute the vncserver with their given password.

Hope this helps.

Merry 0xMAS!
 
Sorry for the delay in answering your useful reply. I think I will go with option 1 first as I only want it on the LAN.

Thanks,
Jonathan.
 
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