On Thursday 07 February 2002 01:25, Michael Brown wrote:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Roger Whittaker wrote:
There is a thing called xwinx, which might be what you're looking for.
Thanks, Roger - I hadn't come across that one before!
Another way to do it is to use rdesktop and NT4 Terminal Server (or Win2000 Terminal Services). I have found it easy to use rdesktop to log in to a Win2000 server some 50 miles away, across the Internet and with 512K connections at each end. It will certainly work with the bandwidth available in a LAN.
How good is rdesktop with sound etc? Seems to me that a good stop gap might be to have a Windows terminal server to run "essential" windows educational software. I'll look into the prices of client access licences but it would be a lot cheaper than buying Windows XP at well over £100 on each machine. Its probably cheaper on a large site to buy Citrix licences than to put Windows on every machine. Need to know the limitations of terminal services with popular education titles and of course if they run under WINE anyway that would be better. Snag is in testing all these. We need a knowledge base on what does and doesn't work. Regards, -- IanL