>>> On 3/5/2007 at 12:35 PM, in message
<Pine.GSO.4.60.0703051231580.9985 at taxa.epi.umn.edu>, Mike Miller
<mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Troy.A Johnson wrote:
>> but there are lots of hits on Google for "vnc inetd":
>>  http://www.google.com/search?q=vnc+inetd 
> 
> What is the advantage of inetd?  Is it that it creates a new VNC session 
> if none exists?  Does it work in the ordinary VNC way if the VNC session 
> is already running?
> I just skip the inetd business and start VNC from an SSH prompt command 
> line.  Once it is running, I connect in the usual VNC way.  I've had one 
> session running for 500 days on a Solaris box.  It was ultimately 
> interrupted by a power failure.
> By the way, autocutsel is helpful for use with VNC and I recommend it.
> Mike

You would use the VNC over SSH tunnel 
option (and I do) if you want to keep 
it simple (and I do). 

If you want it to act like a Terminal 
Server, and create new sessions for 
users as they connect (and hopefully
go away when they log out), the inetd 
option is a reasonably simple way to 
do it.

Troy