Re: CygwinX at MS Terminalserver?

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 12/08/2010 08:31, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> Does anyone has experiences running CygwinX at an MS Terminalserver? We like to use it at one based on Windows Server 2003 with NTFS.
>
> Is it possible to run multiple XWin instances for multiple user sessions in parallel?
>
> Any suggestions how to setup the rights in /tmp, /var/log, /var/run, etc.?

You shouldn't change the rights on any of these, as this could affect the 
security or functioning of other cygwin apps.

Fortunately, you shouldn't need to, as, provided each X server instance has a 
unique display number, everything should work :-)

Where you may experience problems is if the X server crashes whilst being run 
by an Administrator, and then a non-Adminstrator user tries to run X server 
using the same display number, which will fail due being unable to remove the 
stale lock file and unix socket.  Unfortunately, there is no obvious way to 
fix that without introducing a security hole (not that it is known to be 
secure anyhow)

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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