[K12OSN] access to samba shares from winxp

norbert bear2bar at netscape.net
Wed Dec 8 15:16:58 UTC 2004


jim at winonacotter.org wrote:

>>No what I meant was to have a W2K server on your K12ltsp 
>>network, then 
>>the kids could access the "legacy" - (seems odd to talk about 
>>legacy & 
>>Win in the same sentence ....) app via rdesktop. 
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>I am guessing this wouldn't work for her anyhow since the legacy apps
>run from CD's.  I imagine if you slammed a CD into the server only one
>user could run it at a time.  Unless of course you figured out some
>voodoo magic to run a local CDROM from a thin client in a rdesktop
>session.
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Hi Jim,

Good point, But how about creating a virtual CD on the W2K server that 
could be accessed via rdesktop. Or just coping the contents of the CD to 
a shared folder. Might be worth a try..

norbert
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