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tooki:

--- Quote from: blueskull on March 21, 2019, 05:02:48 am ---
--- Quote from: tooki on March 21, 2019, 04:47:04 am ---Other than the AirPlay approach, which I definitely think is worth a look.

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But that adds a screen to current user session, right? I want a complete remote session that doesn't interfere with current user.

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I'm not quite sure what you mean by "interfere", but if you're asking whether an AirPlay display is a separate session or not: no, it's not. It behaves exactly like a physical display, in that it can extend the desktop or mirror another display. Like the built-in VNC, AirPlay displays persist into the login screen.

Though I did just think of something I overlooked yesterday: I don't think there's any facility in AirPlay for control (i.e. KB and mouse). :/
cowasaki:
Under MacOS there isn’t an option I know of that would allow two people to log into Macao’s at the same time.  You can SSH into it whilst someone is in macOS but that’s about it.
tooki:

--- Quote from: cowasaki on March 21, 2019, 02:17:31 pm ---Under MacOS there isn’t an option I know of that would allow two people to log into Macao’s at the same time.  You can SSH into it whilst someone is in macOS but that’s about it.

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Actually it's supported this for many years now. (And it's supported concurrent local logins, called "Fast User Switching" for far longer still.)

Basically, if you try to log in to screen sharing using a user account other than the one currently in use, you get asked this:



So here, on the Mac Pro named "Atlas", I'm logged in locally as user "tooki", and then from the Macbook, I logged in through screen sharing using the user "test". The second option logs in a whole separate GUI session, and presents the login screen. The local screen remains untouched.

Apparently, for using this with non-Mac VNC terminals, you just have to twiddle the VNC settings: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/94666/how-to-use-mac-os-x-per-user-screen-sharing-from-a-windows-pc
kripton2035:
https://news.dwservice.net/
https://anydesk.com/
NiHaoMike:
How about a hardware encoded solution that works on any machine/OS that can output HDMI?
https://hackaday.com/2020/07/24/tinypilot-provides-kvm-over-ip-with-low-cost-and-even-lower-latency/
https://github.com/catid/kvm
https://pikvm.org/
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