>>> 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