VNC Display Startup in a NIS Domain Environment

[kb5fls]

I just setup a linux network at work. I currently run Red Hat 5.3 server on 4 machines and the rest are workstations.

We have a master server that authenticates all users from that one server to access other servers.

I need to figure out how to have the vnc displays for each user to start at boot time and be able to login into any linux machine that has the vncserver running.

Does anyone have any ideas?

[Roxoff]

I think what you need here is a VNC-server based login screen. I did this a while ago, you set it up so that xinetd starts off a VNC server session when a connection is made, and the user gets to use their regular logon/password - I thought it was _really_ nice, and it meant that vnc was only running when needed not all the time.

I cant remember the fine details of how I did it, but there's plenty of help out there. here's one that seems to sum it up, but if you Google for 'vnc over xinetd' you'll get plenty of detailed instructions.

[kb5fls]

Thanks for the information. I will check this out next week when I return to work. I think this is just what I need.

Phil