[X2Go-User] Two new features in X2Go Client

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 21:26 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Do 06 Sep 2012 20:09:48 CEST  wrote:
> 
> > Please, there are two very basic features that are still missing.
> > Whenever I have two or more machines to x2go, I have to start two
> > client sessions. And then those two collide, causing one to crash. The
> > only way to fix this is to edit /usr/bin/x2gostartagent on one of the
> > target machines and change SSH_PORT to 30200. It seems that as it
> > stands now, x2go is intended to be used with only one machine at a
> > time!
> > --
> > [1]merc1984 at f-m.fm
> 
> If you are juggling with multiple simultaneous X2Go sessions, the  
> please try pyhoca-gui. One application instance can handle various  
> sessions to the same or to many servers.
> 
> However, I do not observer what you describe above with multiple  
> running instances of X2Go Client. Can you describe steps on how to  
> reproduce the issue?
> 
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I do and strongly second the motion. We are promoting the concept of
Content Networks to break the paradigm of a user has one PC to do any of
several jobs and replace it where a project has a content network -
everything needed to create, consume, communicate, and collaborate on
content in a single security context.  Users thus have a virtual PC for
any tasks, e.g., inter-company collaboration, ad agencies, PR firms,
contract engineers, etc.

Thus, one PC may launch several instances of X2Go Client each connecting
to a different X2Go Server.  Since they are all starting their
connections at port 30000, they collide unless one edits x2gostartagent
on each X2Go Server to ensure they are unique.  That is impractical in a
large environment or environments where one may not have control of the
X2Go Server.

Earlier versions of x2goclient (e.g., 3.0.1-5) allowed this but I
suspect it was by accident.  We would really like to see this
functionality restored, i.e., a physical PC can run multiple instances
of x2goclient to different X2Go Servers without manually configuring
each X2Go Server.  Thanks - John