[svlug] running many remote desktop connections

[James Sparenberg]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 21:27, Sameer Verma wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I'd like for my students to be able to use a VNC viewer on their 
> machines to access an account that I have created for them on a FC3 
> machine. The idea is to get them familiarized with a Linux desktop and 
> show them some of the GUI based tools available.
> 
> While I have used VNC before, I am a bit stumped this time. I'd like for 
> them to connect to their VNC session without having to get into their 
> shell and typing 'vncserver'. The other problem is the part that comes 
> after the : while specifying the address. Is there a way around that? 
> Can they simply specify their login and password and get in...sorta like 
> Remote Desktop'ing on Windows, since that's what they are used to. It is 
> also a management nightmare if I have to keep track of who has what 
> session. We are talking about 120 students here.
> 
> Sameer

This article may or may not help.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5499