Can I use one PC with two or more people simoltaneously?

You cannot have 2 os running simulatenously on the same internet. In the case of 2 monitors, thats the same computer, only 1 person using it.

This may sound like old technology but... I have used that same application to do that exact thing. I put one main power house computer (X-Windows enabled server) in the middle of my house and wired "dumb clients" (keyboard monitor and mouse) to that main computer and each "work station" has its own session of X-Windows on it independant of the other workstations or the server. Microsoft does not support this option - If they did they would not sell as many licenses God forbid they turn down money... There is a way to make windows server 2000/2003 do this however it takes special hardware (i.e. Citrix Thin Clients) which end up costing as much as a new PC, so for a home user this is not ideal (unless ur a hard core geek and have money to throw away).

If you dont want to spend more money and you dont mind switching to a differant OS then Redhat, Slackware, Suse all support this option out of the box, however Linspire, which is significantly cheaper, will support this option with a little bit of tweaking but Linspire's support will tell you its not possible (but it is cause i have done it).

Hope this helps....

There used to be (don't know if there still is) something called "Buddy" system. It allowed two users to simultaneously use 1 PC at the same time.

Something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/pc-buddy-b-210a_W0QQitemZ110004094776QQihZ001QQcategoryZ11182QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


All you need is an extra keyboard, mouse, and monitor. I have no idea about the compatibility or usefullness of this, or whether a computer can handel it. I used to have one (probably still do in a closet somewhere), but I never used it.

- Nick