[K12OSN] Linux TS help

[Sharon Betts]

Thanks Rob,
	My thick clients are linux boxes -- is there anyway to have them access
both the terminal servers?
Sharon

robowens at myway.com on Friday, February 11, 2005 at 10:55 AM +0000 wrote:
>Sharon, There may be better ways, but here's one way that might work. Set
>up a linux server with accounts for each user. Install the GIMP, Scribus,
>etc. Use ssh to connect to the linux server and run the applications. You
>may need to install Cygwin/X on the windows machines in order to get the
>graphics to work, but I'm not sure about that. I haven't tried any of
>this myself. Are your thick clients are running Windows? "Putty" is a
>free ssh client for Windows (I don't have any experience w/ it, though).
>Perhaps you could set up a "scribus" icon which calls a batch file that
>ssh's the linux server, logs in, and launches Scribus, all w/o user
>intervention--except for double-clicking the icon, of course. I may be
>completely wrong here. I've been thinking about this issue and it seems
>to me like this will work, but I haven't actually tested any of it. -Rob
>--- On Thu 02/10, Sharon Betts< sbetts at msad71.net > wrote: From: Sharon
>Betts [mailto: sbetts at msad71.net] To: k12osn at redhat.com Cc:
>k12osn at redhat.com Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:44:23 -0500 Subject: [K12OSN]
>Linux TS help 
>I need to put a Linux Terminal Server onto a Windows network. What should
>I do?
>I have thick clients (they all boot locally from Flash).
>I have a WIndows 2003 Terminal Server working very well.
>I want to add a linux terminal server to serve GIMP, StarOffice, Scribus,
>Freemind, cMap, etc.
>It doesn not need to do DHCP or anything else except serve apps.
>What is the easiest way to do this? Don't tell me at this point to
>go LDAP etc. 
>I understand all that, but at this time, simply want to add Linux TS --
>help?
>Sharon 
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Sharon 
MSAD#71 Director of Educational Technology
sbetts at msad71.net          http://www.msad71.net     207-985-1100
"To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so."    
Robert Orben