Maximum number of displays limit reached

Peter Åstrand astrand "at" cendio.se
Thu Jan 24 07:50:01 2008


On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, PARESH MASANI wrote:

> I came to know that Real VNC supports only 99 sessions per host. and
> after that it displays error saying "no free display number on
machine".Could
> anyone have the same problem or knows how to solve this then please let me
> know.

This limit comes from the fact the VNC ports begin at 5900 by default, and
port 6000+x is occupied by X11. So, if you specify alternate VNC ports,
you should be able to use more than 99 sessions per host. ThinLinc, which
is based in TightVNC, supports up to 2000 sessions per host.

Regards,
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