Simultaneous Multiuser Desktops?

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stefanbarlow

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I'm a 20-year PC junky who just bought his first Mac for the office (couldn't resist the stats on the Dual 2ghz G5 :D).

I have a graphics designer in the office and I'm afraid he will be using it constantly since his G4 laptop is pretty old. I want to be able to open a different remote desktop from my Windows machine while he works. With Windows Server 2000 I use Terminal Services, which you can have up to 2 simultaneous remote sessions at once, plus the active console user.

Multiple VNC screens are too slow for productive work. Does Timbuktu or something similar allow for multiple remote simultaneous desktops so I can play with my new toy while he does "work"?

Thanks,
Stefan Barlow
 
I haven't heard of anything that works that well - like in our lab 3 OS X Macs can be X11 clients of one Linux box and all run the same app on different data sets.
That would be nice....
 
As far as I'm aware multiple GUI logons are not possible on Mac OS X... yet.

Fast file switching goes some way towards this, allowing one user to remain running in the background while another user has use of the computer. But as it sounds, while the background user is still running it's not accessible.

There was, I seem to remember, talk of this multiple GUI log on being part of "A future version of Mac OS X Server", but it hasn't (so far) materialised.

For now, it seems the only way to go is via X11. And I can't see that particular setup being user friendly!
 
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