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[Hammer]

Piru wrote:

Try to log in remotely (RDesktop) -> the current desktop user need to log out. I call that singleuser.

(Ok, you can workaround that particular problem with VNC, but still it's single user to me)

You can work around that with WinConnect. It's using the same RDP infrastructure as Windows Terminal Server.

Windows XP is a multi-user OS with a crippled Windows Terminal Service (RDP).

[Argo]

Actually, I've read that with Service Pack 2 that there is a registry modification that will allow multiple remote desktop connections.

[mikeymike]

Piru wrote:
The only half usable environment I've seen is Cygwin. But if you go there, why not just install bsd/linux for real anyway. :-)

Cgywin is so half-arsed on Windows. To make any use of it, I had to do NTFS junctioning all over the place. Trying to force Windows into such a setup would require a clever virtual filesystem, rather than an actual one being part of the filesystem, claiming to be one itself.

If I were designing cygwin, I would have made /bin to include/handle all of the command paths in Windows, so a list of commands would be in there. /usr would redirect to the Program Files directory assignment, /home would be Documents and Settings, and so on. Additional data drives would be mounted in /usr or /mnt.

[B00tDisk]

Piru wrote:
@B00tDisk


Only single user can use the XP machine at a time. Thus I consider it singleuser.

I'm sure there are some sort of hacks for this, but XP remote desktop doesn't allow this. It's one user at a time.

Well, you're completely wrong about what "multi-user" and "single-user" are. You're approaching that Steve G.-level of self-delusion. Quit while you're ahead.