Multi-user sessions using VNC on Mac

[Sean Kamath]

On Jan 24, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Jesse Heady wrote:

> Is it possible to set up VNC on Mac and allow simultaneous private
> sessions for users?  Is this only possible if each VNC user has their
> own system login and VNC is run as a system service?  Ultimately we
> would like to have our Mac available as a server for developers and
> designers to login and test their work remotely as we have a
> Windows/Linux development environment but need to test our work under
> Mac.

What I do is have multiple users on my mac.  I have a Vine server  
running on the mac that is at :0 that is started at boot.  That  
service controls the screen.  Then, when the mac boots, I use that  
connection to log in as me, and start the vine server as me, but on a  
different port.  I then use fast user switching to switch to another  
user, and start a vnc server for that user on yet another port.

So :0 is the master
:1 is me
:2 is my grandmother

Yeah, it's not perfect, but it works.

Sean