RE: [suse-linux-uk-schools] X based Windows app. server
AFAIK xwinx is a single user system. You can't run multiple sessions. Ditto VNC. Therefore neither will allow multiple Linux workstations to access a shared WIndows CD ?
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Brown [mailto:mbrown@fensystems.co.uk] Sent: 07 February 2002 01:26 To: Schools List Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] X based Windows app. server
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.
Michael
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AFAIK xwinx is a single user system. You can't run multiple sessions. Ditto VNC. Therefore neither will allow multiple Linux workstations to access a
Also AFAIK there isn't a way to send the secure attention key sequence of CTRL-ALT-DEL to be able to easily log into an NT machine.
shared WIndows CD ?
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If you want multiple sessions I suppose you're forced to use something like Windows Terminal server. On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Grainge, Derek wrote:
AFAIK xwinx is a single user system. You can't run multiple sessions. Ditto VNC. Therefore neither will allow multiple Linux workstations to access a shared WIndows CD ?
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Brown [mailto:mbrown@fensystems.co.uk] Sent: 07 February 2002 01:26 To: Schools List Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] X based Windows app. server
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.
Michael
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"Grainge, Derek"
AFAIK xwinx is a single user system. You can't run multiple sessions. Ditto VNC. Therefore neither will allow multiple Linux workstations to access a shared WIndows CD ?
For a way of running multiple copies of Windows, and clients, while only paying for one license, and still staying legal, you could try this slightly twisted solution: Buy yourself a quick PC with lots of RAM, install GNU/Linux and VMWare on it, and run as many instances of Windows as you can under VMWare before the whole thing grinds to a halt. Use VNC (Free Software) to publish the Windows sessions around your network, or possibly the VNC remote display thing, about which I know nothing. I don't know to what extent this has changed, but most Windows software used to be licensed on a per processor basis, so you should only need to buy one license for most of the software you use. With a bit of scripting, I'm sure you could get the VM's to be destroyed on log-out, and have new ones automatically launched when too few were running, so that people don't inherit earlier sessions. Cheers, Phil. -- Say no to software patents! http://petition.eurolinux.org/ |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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