Using VNC in full Desktop Mode (CDE)

[Huerta, Jose]

Steve, that worked great with minor modifications for AIX.

One more obstacle is getting the session to REQUEST the login ID and
password. Right now it is logging me directly into the XSESSION. Any way
to have the session startup at the login screen? And not automatically
login?

Looking for extra security?

If this works we plan on purchasing the Enterprise version...

Thanks,





Jose Huerta

United Stationers

Email: JHuerta "at" ussco.com

Office Phone: 847-627-2067

Cell Phone: 847-878-4961

Fax: 847-627-7067

________________________________

From: Waltner, Steve [mailto:Steve.Waltner "at" lsi.com]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 12:33 PM
To: Huerta, Jose; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: RE: Using VNC in full Desktop Mode (CDE)



Look into the options on Xvnc related to XDMCP if you want a login
screen presented. The best wat to do this is to use the instructions for
setting up inetd. Read the RealVNC website for info on doing this.

Instead of going that route, I simply replaced the ~/.vnc/xstartup file
with a customized one that didn't launch twm, but rather launches CDE on
Solaris and GNOME on Linux. It's included here...

===========
#!/bin/sh

[ -r \$HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources

OS=`uname -s`

case $OS in
'Linux')
        # Start clipboard helper app
        vncconfig -nowin &

        /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients

        display=`echo $DISPLAY | sed -e 's/.*:/:/'`
        vncserver -kill $display
        ;;
'SunOS')
        DTXSERVERLOCATION="remote"
        SESIONTYPE="altDt"
        SDT_ALT_SESSION="/usr/dt/bin/dtsession"
        SDT_ALT_HELLO="/usr/dt/bin/dthello &"

        export DTXSERVERLOCATION SESIONTYPE SDT_ALT_SESSION
SDT_ALT_HELLO

        # Start clipboard helper app
        vncconfig -nowin &

        /usr/dt/bin/Xsession

        display=`echo $DISPLAY | sed -e 's/.*:/:/'`
        vncserver -kill $display
        ;;
*)
        echo "Unknown OS - Exiting"
        ;;
esac
===========

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com on behalf of Huerta, Jose
Sent: Fri 10/27/2006 10:37 AM
To: James Weatherall; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: RE: Using VNC in full Desktop Mode (CDE)

Sorry, I meant to say the Desktop Login screen for a full X
Session...like this one







Jose Huerta

United Stationers

Email: JHuerta "at" ussco.com

Office Phone: 847-627-2067

Cell Phone: 847-878-4961

Fax: 847-627-7067

-----Original Message-----
From: James Weatherall [mailto:jnw "at" realvnc.com]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:31 AM
To: Huerta, Jose; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: RE: Using VNC in full Desktop Mode (CDE)



Jose,



Can you explain what you mean by "full desktop"?



If you mean "my usual desktop environment", then that is controlled by
the

user's ~/.vnc/xstartup script - by default this runs the twm window
manager

and an xterm but it's intended to be customised to run whatever desktop

environment the user prefers.



Regards,



Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.





> -----Original Message-----

> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com

> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Huerta, Jose

> Sent: 27 October 2006 13:51

> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com

> Subject: Using VNC in full Desktop Mode (CDE)

>

> Hello, I am trying to setup VNC in my new company to possibly replace

> Exceed. The requirements are simply to provide the FULL Desktop access

> to servers so users can login and use the X environment to

> install java

> APPS and other which require GUIs to display on the desktop/pc. My

> environment consist mainly of NEW IBM UNIX 5.3 server, some

> HP and some

> SUN.

>

> Does anyone know which version of VNC can allow me to do this? And on

> what platform it works best?

>

> I was evaluating the FREE version and also the version that comes with

> AIX5.3 (I believe it's version 3.3), but I've not been able to get

> either to work properly in displaying my "full desktop".

>

> Any documents or websites I can check on this type of setup?

>

> Thanks,

>

>

>

>

>

> Jose Huerta

>

> United Stationers

>

> Email: JHuerta "at" ussco.com

>

> Office Phone: 847-627-2067

>

> Cell Phone: 847-878-4961

>

> Fax: 847-627-7067

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