[OpenIndiana-discuss] xvnc-inetd only accepting one connection in total?? Huh??

[Jonathan Adams]

I know that the xrdp project tried to wrap a VNC session starter
within the RDP protocol ... but it never really worked well for me,
even when I tried on Linux.

Jon

On 1 March 2013 17:31, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 03/ 1/13 01:32 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>> Given the below quote from man Xvnc, I thought I could use Xvnc+vncviewer for
>> multiple concurrent logins over the network, but no: It only ever accepts one
>> connection.
>>
>> What am I missing?? Some detail in gdm??
>>
>> ----Quoted from the Xvnc manpage
>>      In this configuration, connecting to :0 will result in a new
>>      Xvnc  for  that connection which should display the standard
>>      graphical login screen on that machine.
>
> In both VNC & X11, display numbers uniquely identify a session - there can only
> be one :0 at a time, otherwise when you started a new client with DISPLAY :0,
> it wouldn't know which one to connect to.
>
> I don't remember if there's any automated way to start additional vnc sessions
> on demand (vs. simply preconfiguring a fixed number of additional displays) -
> you can always just run vncserver to start more manually.
>
> If it helps, the cheat sheet on VNC setup methods we made for our QA teams a
> few years back (not all of which made it into the docs) can be seen at
>
> https://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/oracle/x-cons/x-s12-clone/file/49256774ae10/open-src/xserver/xvnc/README.txt#l149
>
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