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Can I connect multiple users to the same Windows server, and have them each see their own desktop, as with WinFrame, NTrigue, WTS, etc?

April 26, 2017Connect desktop server Users Windows winframe WTS

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Can I connect multiple users to the same Windows server, and have them each see their own desktop, as with WinFrame, NTrigue, WTS, etc?

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No. Windows NT has a reasonable concept of multi-user access, but not where the GUI is concerned. Basically, you can’t do this without access to the source code of Windows, and that’s rather difficult to get hold of! We have successfully run multiple WinVNC servers on a Windows Terminal Server machine, but they don’t update unless a WTS client is also connected, which rather defeats the purpose. It may be possible in future to get documentation on the WTS APIs, in which case we might be able to do something better. Of course, if your server is Unix-based, then you have no problem. You can run dozens of VNC servers on a single machine.