<div dir="ltr"><div>> VNC takes over the console on the remote machine. What if somebody else is using that, or there isn't one (headless server)?</div><div><br></div><div>David, are you sure about that?</div><div>I did at lot of work in F1 on VNC to workstations... as I remember VNC sessions are not on the 'root window' by default.</div><div><br></div><div>I did a lot of work in conjunction with NICE and their DCV product in order to configure 'takeover' mode with VNC.</div><div>The use case here is that you are sitting at your desk, in front of the screen and keyboard during the working day.</div><div>In X parlance this is the 'root window'. You want to go home to see your loved ones at some stage. However you do not want to log out from your workstation.</div><div>When you get home you fir up your laptop, connect into the corporate network and start a VNC session - on the root window, so you just unlock the screen and continue.</div><div><br></div><div>Not really as easy as it sounds, the NICE guys have got that packaged up.<br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 June 2018 at 23:53, David Mathog <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mathog@caltech.edu" target="_blank">mathog@caltech.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 14:03:59 -0300 Hernan Olivera wrote<br>
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I've solved this using RDP instead VNC, with very improved velocity. You<br>
have to deal with installing and configuring it in the server, but it works<br>
fine.<br>
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VNC takes over the console on the remote machine. What if somebody else is using that, or there isn't one (headless server)?<br>
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Regards,<br>
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David Mathog<br>
<a href="mailto:mathog@caltech.edu" target="_blank">mathog@caltech.edu</a><br>
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech<br>
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