terminal server
john bray
jmblin at comcast.net
Wed Jan 4 19:51:13 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 00:06 +0500, azeem ahmad wrote:
> in fact i got Linux server and windows clients, i want windows clients to
> access Linux machine's GUI,
> i have done this by sharing the Linux desktop with rdesktop and using
> tightvnc viewer on windows clients, but in fact i dont want a shared desktop
> on client, instead i want different desktop for every individual, mean every
> client who logs in must get his own desktop without interrupting the Linux
> server local desktop and any clients desktop
> Regards
> Azeem
>
> >From: Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com>
> >Reply-To: paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com,For users of Fedora Core releases
> ><fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >Subject: Re: terminal server
> >Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 11:44:04 -0700
> >
> >If I am reading between the lines correctly, you have multiple users
> >that you want to be able to connect to a box running FC4 at the same
> >time and you ant to do so with out the box expending too much energy
> >serving up the sessions. If this is right I think you have two options:
> >
> >If all of your users are console (text only) users they can connect to
> >the box using:
> > ssh (works out of the box)
> > telnet (requires a little setup to get it to work)
> > rlogin (also requires some setup to get it to work)
> >
> >If they are needing access to GUI applications:
> > They need to be running an X client/server
> > If users are using Windows checkout
> > Reflections X ($)
> > Hummingbird ($)
> > If they are also Fedora/Unix users
> > they already have the software on their box (free)
> >
> >Is this what you were looking for?
> >
> >On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 23:22 +0500, azeem ahmad wrote:
> > > hi list
> > > is there any terminal server for Fedora Core that is not resourse
> >intensive,
> > > it may be supporting a very few clients but should not be resourse
> >hungry
> > > Regards
> > > Azeem
you might want to check out the freenx server on the linux box and the
nomachines.com windows client. it gives you an x desktop with minimal x
traffic on the lan. what it does to cpu occupancy on the serverbox, i
don't know.
john
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