10.4: Use multiple simulataneous GUI accounts

Aug 15, '05 09:03:00AM

Contributed by: ihint

Tiger only hintHere's how to have two GUI users active at one time on the same machine. This hint is a summary of this hint on the macosx.com forums; read the original post for much more detail.

Here are the basic requirements:

After you have two or more accounts set up on one Mac, install OSXvnc and start the server. Once started, Fast User Switch to the other user on the machine.

Now from another computer, use a VNC viewer like Chicken of the VNC and point it to the Mac. Even though the Mac is logged in as another user, your VNC session goes to the original account, allowing both of you to use the machine at the same time.

When testing, this is seemed to work well, although you have to wonder if there will be problems with system calls from the same programs happening simutaneously. I've only been running this for about two hours, but no problems so far.

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