[nas] Can NAS support multiple users on a server?

[Jon Trulson]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Hugo Lovhoiden wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:00:41 +0100 (MET)
> From: Hugo Lovhoiden <Hugo.Lovhoiden at nr.no>
> To: nas at radscan.com
> Cc: Jon Trulson <jon at radscan.com>
> Subject: Re: [nas] Can NAS support multiple users on a server?
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Jon Trulson wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> >
> > > If NAS has retained its X heritage, then you should be able to
> > > specify something akin to DISPLAY 17:0 and start a nas-per-sunray
> > > same way as there is an X-per-sunray.
> > >
> >
> > 	It has retained that heritage ;-)  The thing I'm concerned about
> > is A) will nasd (ausuni) work with these audio devices, and B) I would
> > think NAS would have to be 'adjusted' to open $AUDIODEV instead of the
> > currently psuedo-hardcoded device paths...  But if that's all there is to
> > it, then it seems pretty trivial...
> >
> 
[...]
> it, too, so it's probably just me.
> 
> B) The hardcoding of /dev/audio and /dev/audioctl in ausuni.c may be
> viewed as a problem by some... :-)
> 

	;-) Yes... I was thinking that when I get some time I would have
all of the server understand the nasd.conf '{input,output}section'
configurables.  Maybe a command line switch(s) and/or ENV vars would be
good for this stuff too.

> The thing is, if I could get NAS to work with the SunRays I could use them
> as thin Windows clients using XDM -query to a windows terminal server
> running Citrix Unix Integration services. Well, if I could figure out how
> to make UIS check for a NAS server on other ports than 8000 that is...


	Hmmm... what's UIS?  If NAS can open the proper device, and the
user's profile does something like 'export AUDIOSERVER=$DISPLAY', and then
starts nasd... it seems it should work fine...  But then there's that UIS
question again... ;-)

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