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Old 11-13-2006, 01:29 PM   #1
jayprakash
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Question terminal server - win equivalent


Hi,

I need win2k/2k3 terminal server equivalent for linux.
There is LTSP (http://ltsp.org/) but all I've found are setups for diskless clients.
I need a possibility to connect to linux server from fully functional windows/linux clients.

XDMCP is very 'heavy', and works good only from linux (or, I havn't found an easy (like BFU easy GUI) way/client).

Friends asked me to build a small firm on linux and opensource. And I'm doin'g it for free to propagate linux and make how-to for others.

So please help.
 
Old 11-13-2006, 02:08 PM   #2
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Please Clarify

Windows clients connect to linux servers all the time. It would help if you described what exactly you wanted to do.

Can you just use a regular linux desktop and tweak it to your needs?

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Originally Posted by jayprakash
Hi,

I need win2k/2k3 terminal server equivalent for linux.
There is LTSP (http://ltsp.org/) but all I've found are setups for diskless clients.
I need a possibility to connect to linux server from fully functional windows/linux clients.

XDMCP is very 'heavy', and works good only from linux (or, I havn't found an easy (like BFU easy GUI) way/client).

Friends asked me to build a small firm on linux and opensource. And I'm doin'g it for free to propagate linux and make how-to for others.

So please help.
 
Old 11-13-2006, 02:43 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by mpapet
Windows clients connect to linux servers all the time. It would help if you described what exactly you wanted to do.

Can you just use a regular linux desktop and tweak it to your needs?
1. Linux application server. (office, accounting, CRM, ...)
2. Normal linux/windows clients, connecting to server in window (like nested X window, or rdesktop), or fullscreen in screen :0 (fullscreen application), or fulscreen in :1,:2 (next session).
3. Diskless remote sessions (solved with LTSP). (thru LAN)
4. thin client connection thru VPN (thru internet, must work at least with 256kb/s minimum).

sollutions i've found:
1. LTSP - Would be great, but I couldn't bring rdesktop to connect to it (maybe it works, and I have problem somewhere else, but also google is quiet about it), and I haven't a clue about a win client.
2. XDMCP - works reliably from linux in nested X session and next fullscreen session (:1), but eats a lot of network bandwidth (display is very slow (at least in nested x, so not a thin client)), and also the win client.

Last edited by jayprakash; 11-13-2006 at 02:46 PM.
 
Old 11-13-2006, 03:12 PM   #4
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VNC? Is that the kind of functionality you're talking about.
 
Old 11-13-2006, 03:18 PM   #5
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VNC? Is that the kind of functionality you're talking about.
no
"windows 2k3 terminal server" functionality
 
Old 11-13-2006, 07:56 PM   #6
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rdesktop is strictly a client for Windows terminal server and Remote Desktop Connection.
FreeNX might be what you are looking for.
 
  


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