Remote Access - Screen Sharing - possible to have a different session?

I was wondering of there was some way, maybe using X11, of doing screen sharing to my iMac but with a different session.
Can I log-in across the network and get a separate logged-in session from the one on the main screen?
If so, how do I do it? Is there a 'How to' somewhere?
I'd imagine something like setting up a Display parameter for X11 that can run remotely on my machine, so I can log on as a different person and run a different session without affecting what's on the main screen. Effectively to be multi-user access.

On a Unix or Linux system (and OS/X is a Unix system) you can have multiple remote sessions running under X11.
Mac OS X does NOT use X11 as its graphic engine. X11 is a side car on Mac OS X, provided so users that need to access Linux/Unix system which do use X11 have a way of displaying X-Windows output.
Mac OS X itself does not use X11 in any way. So even if you could do what you want, it would not get any of the native Mac OS X applications displayed on your system.
As someone else has pointed out, there is a trick with Fast User Switching and the Vine Server that can allow multiple users to access the system. It is a bit of a hack, and less than perfect, but if it works for you, that might be an option.

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