Managing Remote Desktop Sessions

Hi all,

I'm a newbie but I'm trying. I spent last weekend getting a SuSE distro up
on an old PII that I have. It's up and running beautifully. I intend to
become proficient enough to move to the command line, but I'm a product of
the Windows age and need to work towards that gradually, so bear with me.

I have VNC client running on a windows machine and have my Linux distro set
up to received remote administration requests on port 5900. My problem is
that sometimes these connections time out and when I log back in, I'm
getting a new display (it changes from linux:3 to linux:4).

I'm used to Windows Terminal Server which allowed me to connect to
disconnected sessions. Is there a way to do this using VNC or am I always
going to get a new session? I believe the other sessions are still running
somewhere but I can't figure out how to find them, disconnect them, or
connect to them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
Chris

Chris Lamb wrote:
> I'm used to Windows Terminal Server which allowed me to connect to
> disconnected sessions. Is there a way to do this using VNC or am I always
> going to get a new session?

on the Linux box use this a the VNC server, it'll allow you to connect
to an active session. works great. then just connect with a VNC client.

http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/


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