From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 21 12:19:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8882116A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:19:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from server.rucus.ru.ac.za (server.rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.115.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3262E43D5C for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:19:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oxo@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 42766 invoked from network); 21 Jun 2004 12:19:33 -0000 Received: from shell-em0.rucus.ru.ac.za (oxo@10.0.0.1) by server-em0.rucus.ru.ac.za with QMQP; 21 Jun 2004 12:19:33 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:19:33 +0200 From: John Oxley To: Mike Miocevich Message-ID: <20040621121933.GB81518@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <006301c456d7$4fdc94f0$7200a8c0@c003179a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <006301c456d7$4fdc94f0$7200a8c0@c003179a> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terminal Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:19:47 -0000 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 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