I’m just wondering if you have any links to compiled windows clients? I’m not quite sure how hard it would be to compiled on windows… I just need the normal realvnc client with your patch applied… Can this be done even?

Simon: Not yet, possibly in the future.

Mike: With RealVNC 4 you can just add the vnc module to the X config file and connect directly. This doesn’t have anything to do with the cendio product. My idea behind this was to make the experience as simple as possible, so doing it in a similar way to MS Remote Desktop makes a lot of sense. The modified viewers are a small price to pay for only making a single TCP connection to the server.

Roland: As I said to Mike – single TCP connection, means it’s much easier to manage the firewall. It also means that all VNC connections are authenticated via your system login, so there are no extra VNC passwords to manage.

hey – this is great!
nice to see things just “happen”.

>okay, to all those people our there that have been waiting 1, 2, 3 for a vnc session manage
no – you should count: 1,2,3,4 !!!

why?
i have also been waiting, but i eveni have a basic “concept” around for some time:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1898006&forum_id=2544
http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2003-May/039017.html
http://www.realvnc.com/pipermail/vnc-list/2003-April/038603.html

that little concept is currently hosted at:
http://www.computerkeek.de/projects/vnc4e/concept.txt
maybe you`re interested in reading that.

feedback was very low, and due to lack of time and missing programming skills, it didn`t come forward.

regards
roland kletzing
sysadmin

Hi, you made a great job, i’ve not tested this yet, but i will do this in a few days.
My question is, why did’nt you release patch to vncviewers, it could be great to give them…

Thanks
Serge

Hi Serge,

The patch for the VNC viewers is in CVS.

Not having much luck running the PreSession Default script, any advice?
Adam

Have you had any luck porting to other platforms – we run VNC on HPUX, and this would be a godsend!

Simon.

Is there some way of making it possible to pick up an existing session logged in on the console, through your session manager? (Maybe if somehow inserted a vncserver in the console login…?)

BTW: Has your work anything to do with this “commercial” product including a VSM? :
http://www.cendio.com/files/thinlinc/userguide/html/architecture.html
I got the impression that they have chosen a solution on the server-side so they don’t have to use modified vncviewers. Might be interesting?

Cheers
Mike

I’m probably being an idiot but I can’t get this to work… I’m using Slackware 10 (so there might be some differences).
When I fire up one of the patched clients it does connect to my machine, then it asks for a password.
Now, I have no idea what this first stage password would be (generated from /urandom everytime?) am I missing something stupidly obvious? I’ve tried passing a username to the host machine (i.e. 192.168.0.1 root) but the password for the username given doesn’t match.
Andy help or pointers greatfully appriciated as this would be really handy.

After a little bit of fiddling around I’ve got the Session Manager to work. System in SuSE 9.1 Pro. Only issue now is that I’m only getting twm as the Windows Manager and no Display Manager – any ideas?

*off to rejoin my game of xsnake*

Adam