RE: Two servers on an XP box

[Rosewood <ros...@gm...>]

For those not familiar with Windows XP and to clarify my problem...

I can be logged in as someone and working and doing whatever.  I can
then switch to another user and everything is left running and still
doing its thing (ie it does not just hibernate that).  The problem I am
having I described earlier.  If I install VNC as one user, I can connect
and do everything just fine as that user.  However, when I go to switch
to another user, even though VNC was started as a system service, I can
display the user selection screen but when I select my new user, VNC
blacks out.  I was hoping to just have in startup for that user on login
VNC running as a program and listening on another port (say 5901 and
5801) and watching this new display so I could work as that user.  Then,
when I log out since VNC is just running as a program, it would exit and
I can switch back to the other instance of VNC. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc...@li... 
> [mailto:vnc...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of William Hooper
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 3:24 PM
> To: vnc...@li...
> Subject: RE: Two servers on an XP box
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vnc...@li...
> > [mailto:vnc...@li...] On Behalf 
> > Of Rosewood
> > Well, I need to be able to access two different users on an 
> > XP box so I
> > figured the easiest way to do it would be to run two different VNC
> > servers.  How can I start VNC server as a program and 
> specify the port
> > to use?!  Is there any way to have two vnc instances running 
> > at once, or
> > am I going to have to have two separate installs?
> 
> No, it is not possible to have two instances of VNC running 
> at once on a Windows machine.
> 
> Furthermore, with the exception of Terminal Server, it is not 
> possible to have two users locally logged in and using 
> seperate programs on a Windows machine.  XP has the 
> "Fast-User Switching", but from what I've heard all it does 
> is play tricks of disconnecting some Windows hooks for the 
> local console (also the reason VNC has trouble with Fast-User 
> Switching").
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper
> 
> 
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