Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:19:33 +0200 From: John Oxley <oxo@rucus.net> To: Mike Miocevich <mmiocevich@travcom.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terminal Server Message-ID: <20040621121933.GB81518@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <006301c456d7$4fdc94f0$7200a8c0@c003179a> References: <006301c456d7$4fdc94f0$7200a8c0@c003179a>
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On Sun 2004-06-20 (11:00), Mike Miocevich wrote: > Hi, > > Can FreeBSD act like Windows Terminal Server, i.e. remote access, multiple sessions? Hi Mike, The short answer is yes. The longer answer is FreeBSD, like all unices, has been built from the ground up as a multi-user network operating system. Allowing multiple users to work at the same time on a FreeBSD box is as simple as enabling ssh and adding users to the system. If you want to give them graphical access, you can use X forwarding, or if you are on windows machines, VNC. I recommend TightVNC (http://www.tightvnc.com/). I have worked on an easy way to allow users a graphical login without having to make them run X servers on windows or manually setup a VNC session. It is documented at http://oxo.rucus.net/docs/Terminal-Vnc-HOWTO It is incomplete at the moment. All I need to do is clean up the presentation and grammar (I was always better at maths :), and insert instructions on use of KDE's Desktop Manager. -Ox -- /~\ The ASCII ASCII stupid question, get a EBCDIC ANSI. \ / Ribbon Campaign John Oxley X Against HTML http://oxo.rucus.net/ / \ Email! oxo <at> rucus.ru.ac.za "Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT." -- Thomas Scoville
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