Re: Terminal Services...

enrique_at_heraldodeinternet.com
Date: 11/27/05 

Date: 27 Nov 2005 01:46:02 -0800

Cyphos wrote:
> As for the terminal services part, could I use VNC to help?
>
> Thanks again!
> Mike

VNC can be used as TS subtitute but need some "tunning".

1.- Try the TightVNC version if you want remote conecction.

2.- Use a VPN (OpenVPN is great) o ssh to encrypt connection. OpenVPN
is a bit hard to setup but it has many advantages in the long term
(http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/09/22/164231.shtml).

3.- You can make an /etc/rc.local script similar to (next is a working
"draft"):

...

# Init Xvnc for user1 and user2:

su user1 -c "vncserver -name \"user1VNC\" -depth 8 -geometry 800x600
:1" &
su user2 -c "vncserver -name \"user2VNC\" -depth 16 -geometry
1240x1024:2" &
...

# Our Xvnc server are in nude now. We dress them with a windows manager
# (metacity) and a gnome-panel.
export DISPLAY=localhost:1
su user1 -c "metacity" &
su user1 -c "gnome-panel" &

export DISPLAY=localhost:2
su user2 -c "metacity" &
su user2 -c "gnome-panel" &
...

(This approach means you have always an open session for any client, if
you have many clients memory constrains will make it non-valid and you
will need further tunning to open Xvnc "on-demand").

4.- You will probably need to add custom scripts to forward CUPS
services to the remote client machine.

Enrique

http://www.heraldodeinternet.com/Members/e_arizon_benito

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