Access Multiple Desktops on one Box Remotely and Simultaneously

[SteveSCC]

I wrote this to the Newbie Forum because I couldn't find any previous messages on this subject by searching and I am pretty much a Linux novice.

What I want to do is set up a Linux box on my LAN with two desktops - one for me and one for my wife that we can each access remotely - from another computer on our LAN or even from outside the LAN over the net - and both be able to do it at the same time.

It seems, from the bit of research that I have done, that setting up the two desktops is pretty straightforward and that I can access a single desktop on the Linux Box using a VNC program from a remote computer. What I am not clear on is if it is possible for both of us to hit the Linux box at the same time and use each of our desktops simultaneously from the remote computers.

I will greatly appreciate any leads you can give me on whether this can or cannot be done and/or how to do it or where on this forum or other places to find the info I need.

Thanks in advance,

Steve

[LSalab]

AFAIK you can set up multiple instances of vncserver using "the same" desktop multiple times without getting in each other's way.

You can do that by executing the vncserver command, specifying a desktop instance, for example:

user@host: ~$ vncserver :2
user@host: ~$ vncserver :3

That brings up two instances of vncserver with the desktop of "user", but independent.

To connect to a particular instance, you must execute the vncviewer specifying which instance you want to connect to:

anotheruser@anotherhost: ~$ vncviewer <host's IP>:2

This will connect "anotherhost" to the ":2" instance of the vncserver running in "host"

[SteveSCC]

Wouldn't this share one users desktop multiple simultaneous times?

What I want to do is share two users desktops simultaneously to one user each.

What is the best /preferred server program to use for this vnc4server?