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In the examples so far we have only covered remote access to the primary desktop. By primary desktop we mean the desktop you see when you sit at your computer and turn on the monitor. While this is fine for a single user system we should not lose sight of the fact that Linux is a multi-user operating system and it will often be necessary for more than one person to have remote desktop access at a time. While it might be fun to watch everyone fight over the mouse point as they share the same desktop it is clear that not much work will get done. The solution to this is to run multiple desktops for the users to connect to.
New desktop environments are created using the ''vncserver'' utility. The first step is to assign a password to protect these desktops. THis can be achieved using the ''vncpasswd tool. Run this tool from the command-line prompt in a terminal window and enter the password of your choice.
The desktop we have used so far in this chapter is desktop '':0''. New desktops must be assigned different numbers. For example to launch desktop ''1:'' run the following command from a terminal window command-line prompt: