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Im not an administrator but Ive been given the task of finding out whether this is possible.

The scenario is like this: At our university we are offering a course in basic iPhone programming for between 4 to 8 groups of students. We have a few iPads, iPods and iPhones but only two Mac Minis. We want to enable the students to work on XCode in the lab (and from home if possible) without buying 8 Mac Minis.

Is this possible to do using a Mac Mini Server? If so how would it work if 2 or more groups want to use XCode simultanesouly and to debug their programs on devices simultaneously?

Aaron

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Ask again in two months when there's multi user VNC on Mac OS X Lion. – Daniel Beck Jun 12 '11 at 9:24
@Daniel - Does that mean its currently not possible in any way whatsoever? – twerdster Jun 12 '11 at 10:50
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If I'm not mistaken, one Mac — one active GUI user, both remote and local. There's no such thing as Windows Remote Desktop with concurrent users yet; but it's one of the features of OS X Lion. Then it might be possible; depending on whether multiple instances of the dev tools can run concurrently, but you can experiment here with fast user switching on a single Mac to find out whether that works. – Daniel Beck Jun 12 '11 at 11:24
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I enabled Fast User Switching together with the script here http://www.coderebel.com/2010/08/31/iphone_simulator and it allows me to open one simulator for each user which is exactly what I needed. Also, opening more than one xcode instance even for the same user is perfectly okay.

However this still doesnt allow multiple users to access the computer. I have heard though that using Vine Server permits it.

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