OS-X and VNC

[Netopia]

Ladies and Gents,

I've recently started playing around with a Mac OS-X (10.3) server and due to my incredible laziness, I've installed VNC on it (so I don't have to walk across the building to get to it). The problem is, that if I log out of whatever the active desktop is, VNC goes with it.

In the startup options for VNC I checked the box that said something about not terminating during fast user switching... but that didn't seem to have any effect.

Ideas?

Joe

 

[Netopia]

No one?

 

[n0cmonkey]

rc says there is a startup folder somewhere, but I'm not sure where off hand.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I didn't read the entire thing, but see if this helps.

 

[Netopia]

Thanks n0c!

That's not the same version of VNC that I'm currently using (TightVNC), but if I can't find those same options (haven't seen them thus far) I'll just switch to that one!

As a noob to OS-X, I'm surprized how easy everything tends to be. I downloaded TightVNC and before it had really finished downloading, it seemed to process the file in some manner and then I could run it just by clicking on the icon. I later stopped it and removed it as a start up item and moved the file to another location and then just clicked on it and changed its startup parameters again and all was well. Are there no supporting files in OS-X? Is everything packed into a single file? Slightly different paradigm than I'm used to.

Joe

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Netopia
Thanks n0c!

That's not the same version of VNC that I'm currently using (TightVNC), but if I can't find those same options (haven't seen them thus far) I'll just switch to that one!

As a noob to OS-X, I'm surprized how easy everything tends to be. I downloaded TightVNC and before it had really finished downloading, it seemed to process the file in some manner and then I could run it just by clicking on the icon. I later stopped it and removed it as a start up item and moved the file to another location and then just clicked on it and changed its startup parameters again and all was well. Are there no supporting files in OS-X? Is everything packed into a single file? Slightly different paradigm than I'm used to.

Joe

If you open the terminal, and cd to /Applications you'll see the applications you have installed. ls -F and you'll notice they're not regular files, they're directories. Mac OS X reads them as programs though.

Also, plenty of config stuff is in ~/Library.

 

[Netopia]

I don't know if I like the OS yet or not. It makes things very easy, but I get the feeling that I don't really know what's going on under the hood because of things just like this... directories masquerading as files. I guess it goes with Apple's philosophy of having the end user see as little of the actual underpinnings of the OS as possible, but especially on a SERVER, I'd just like to see "the truth"!

As always, thanks for the info and the expertise.

Joe

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Netopia
I don't know if I like the OS yet or not. It makes things very easy, but I get the feeling that I don't really know what's going on under the hood because of things just like this... directories masquerading as files. I guess it goes with Apple's philosophy of having the end user see as little of the actual underpinnings of the OS as possible, but especially on a SERVER, I'd just like to see "the truth"!

As always, thanks for the info and the expertise.

Joe

Buy one of the secrets of OS X type books. They're supposed to be good, and might explain a lot of it. It's not that apple doesn't want you to know, it's that they don't think you should have to know. I've thought about looking into it, but I get distracted easily...