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Can multiple remote sessions be run simultaneously under v4.2.0?


Greetings,

I recently installed Cygwin and XFree86 v4.2.0 on my Windows 2000 laptop.
My intent is to use it to remotely manage and use my small lab of 6 (and
growing) PCs running RH Linux v7.2, from my office.  I am familiar with VNC,
to the extent that I have set it up and used it for about a year.  However,
I am always looking to simplify my installations as much as possible, and
would like to maintain a more "native" approach, with as few daemons (e.g.
vnc-server) as possible running on my Linux boxes.

I have set up all of the Linux boxes to use xdm (well, gdm actually) and can
start the XFree86 X Server on my Win2K laptop, and use -query and -indirect
with XWin to connect to any desired Linux host.  This work very well.

My question is:  Is it possible to create multiple simultaneous sessions,
which are are resident in separate windows on my Win2K display, yet each
connected to a different Linux host?  As it stands now, I must use a single
server window, with which I can only sequentially log into one Linux machine
at a time.  (I can get a second window up, by launching a second server with
XWin, but it appears either inactive, or at best I can get clients to
display, but not on the session that I want in any predictable fashion.)

I have researched everything that I can find on X and the servers and client
interactions at Red Hat, Linux Doc, your mailing list archives, Google, etc.
I have also experimented with various methods of specifying the display and
screen parameters to the X Server.  However, at this point, I am frustrated
and out of ideas.

Reading over the To-Do List, it seems as though this capability may not
exist in Cygwin-Xfree86 yet.  However, the man files, and other
documentation included with the Xfree86 package seem to indicate that this
is all possible.

Any guidance in this matter would be appreciated.  (I am working very hard
on out engineers here to consider Linux as a much better way of getting our
job done that Windows, and am looking at many different ways to ease the
transition.)

Thank you.

Victor Atkinson
Syracuse, NY, USA



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