VNC remote access when screen saver is active
Seak, Teng-Fong
lapsap7+vnc "at" gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 12:02:01 2008
You mean using Cygwin you might be able to emulate X-Win even in
a workstation version of Windows (ie multi-sessions under different
users)? I really doubt about it... I need to see in order to
believe.
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Long, Phillip GOSS
<Phillip.Long "at" gossinternational.com> wrote:
> Sort of, but YMMV. There is a port of Linux tools to the Windows
> platform call Cygwin. I use it extensively, and one of the things I
> have considered doing is porting xvnc to it (the ports include X). It
> would be nice to have a different desktop than our full-screen
> application is using, because our customers can't always shut down for
> us to 'take over' using pcAnywhere or VNC. Unfortunately, what U want
> your team to see is probably Windows-native GUI applications, so this
> wouldn't work unless what they need to see are console applications,
> or Cygwin-ported X applications. Besides, porting xvnc is no small
> project; that's why I haven't done it yet!