Ok, so you don't want to do what I'm going to describe, but it was a
way-cool accidental discovery, and I have to share. Maybe it's
actually useful to someone?
So, ok, I use screen sharing, fine and dandy. However, Apple's
implementation of VNC doesn't always play nice with all VNC clients,
so I'll often fire up a VNC server on some randomish port via the
command line. (I've got screen sharing taking over the default 5900,
so I've got to fire up the second one on a different port.)
Ok, so I had a computer running Apple's screen sharing, and had opened
a terminal session in a particular account and fired up the VNC server
on port 5902. I'd had this running for a number of days, and had
connected a number of times to remotely access my own account.
Once, after having just connected remotely, I walked up to the
machine. Imagine my surprise when I found that the display showed
another user logged in! I popped out my iTouch and fired up VNC
again, and connected to port 5902 and accessed my own account.
Yup, I could get to my own desktop via port 5902, while another user
session was live at the console on the same machine. Cool. :)
I haven't tried this with a whole bunch of accounts and more VNC
servers running all on the same machine, but this sure looks to me
like a super-simple sort of Mac terminal server opportunity.
If anybody plays around with this and learns more, let me know.
-Greg
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