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Multiple editor instances

Open glor opened this issue 2 years ago • 6 comments

Can I have multiple editor instances without problems e.g. having multiple users accessing the same server? Microsofts VS Code Server seems not to support this.

Could you specify this in the documentation? I think it is of interest to everyone using the project.

glor avatar Sep 02 '22 21:09 glor

Hi @glor, yes it's fine for multiple users to connect to the same server as you are the one hosting it

jeanp413 avatar Sep 05 '22 06:09 jeanp413

Hi @jeanp413. Actually, I'm trying to use this for education. And I also thought same as @glor. When I read the documents, I understood "This is for individuals who wants to make their own server to use personally, not for multiple people." For example, I make an instance for my students.(Maybe around 100?) And they use this through link which I shared. Is it possible to use this?

hyunsukj89 avatar Oct 21 '22 02:10 hyunsukj89

@hyunsukj89 it's fine for multiple users to access the same server though I haven't tested with that many clients (100) it should work, beware that because all the clients are accessing the same filesystem if they start editing the same file at the same time, they will overwrite it from each other

jeanp413 avatar Oct 21 '22 03:10 jeanp413

@jeanp413 Thanks for your answer! I have one more thing that I want to ask you. Is the license totally different from MS VSCode and OpenVSCode? Or some of them are different? If it is a bit different, where can I find the documentation?

hyunsukj89 avatar Oct 24 '22 00:10 hyunsukj89

openvscode-server license is MIT license, MS Vscode server license is here

jeanp413 avatar Oct 24 '22 02:10 jeanp413

I don't see an option to create multiple accounts, so I think this is not possible? Would be great though!

Verhoeckx avatar Mar 01 '23 18:03 Verhoeckx