On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Per Jessen
Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Per Jessen
wrote: Sounds line LTP to me. http://www.ltsp.org/
Something along those lines - what I'd really like to have is what SUN did years ago - in the Sun offices you could move your x-session from one place to another just by swiping your smartcard. I think that was Sun proprietary though.
Surely that can still be done? Possibly without the smartcard, but with a login/password.
The smartcard wouldn't be needed, userid/password is better/sufficient.
Sadly, I know how to do it in Windows because I run long lived tasks that can take a day or two to finish. I need the ability to log into my windows servers and see the GUI regardless of where I'm physically at.
On the server (individual's desktop PC) allow RDP (remote desktop).
When local to the server/desktop, login and use it as normal.
When remote, just connect to the desktop via RDP. The RDP session moves to the latest connection and drops the previous connection.
I do it all the time.
Sounds exactly like what I could do with. Letting someone login on multiple workstations is really just a workaround.
Looking on line it seems the XRDP session server allows session takeover of an X-session. The second answer here claims to have it working on Ubuntu with Gnome: http://askubuntu.com/questions/235905/use-xrdp-to-connect-to-desktop-session They are using: Xrdp, vino, and a RDP client. ==> Vino Is a VNC server for Gnome. I assume there is something similar for KDE? (vino is in factory) ==> Xrdp https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/wiki It's in OBS: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:RemoteDesktop/xrdp There was a git commit just 3 days ago, so it is still being developed: https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp But the last release was almost 2 years ago. The version in OBS is pulled from GIT 6 months ago (I think). ==> RDP client For the client you can use any Windows PC ;) Or rdesktop is in factory (and has been for years). https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:Utilities/rdesktop TBH, I haven't used rdesktop in 3 or 4 years, but I wasn't very happy with it at the time. I've forgotten what my issues were. I think I had a couple bugzillas open at the time. HTH Greg -- Greg Freemyer www.IntelligentAvatar.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org