[K12OSN] NX client on terminal + local apps

[Rondall Stewart]

Check out http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ThIndex. I am only in the "Playing around" phase But I have used thinstation to create boot cd's connect to NX.  
 
Rondall Stewart
Technical Team Leader
ICC Technology Partners
(606)886-8447

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From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Trond Mæhlum
Sent: Tue 10/11/2005 2:33 PM
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Subject: [K12OSN] NX client on terminal + local apps



Two questions.

It's been a while since I played around with NX. I made it work with
freenx on the server, following the readme bundled with the ltsp-nx
package provided by Gideon Romm.

Now I'm at it again, but this time my server is running the commercial
NoMachine server. Now it won't work. I have SCREEN_01= startnx, and I do
get the NoMachine login screen on the terminal. But I can't login. It
seems that the readme doesn't apply anymore, as in the files aren't
where they're supposed to be. I suspect that ssh-keys are the reason I
can't get it to work.

Has anyone gotten a terminal to boot to a nx-login and actually make a
login to a NoMachine server?

My reason for trying this, is to lower my bandwidth needs a bit, as we
have a large number of clients at our schools. Another approach would be
to try running some apps like firefox, and/or tuxmath as local apps.
This seems a bit complicated to set up. Is it? Has anybody done this?

In Norway I know that people are working with something called lessdisk
and Debian to accomplish apps running on the terminals. They call it
"Half-thick" clients. This also seems very complicated to set up, if you
dont't buy it installed and configured from a dealer.

Some tips on nxclient and/or local apps?

Regards
Trond Maehlum

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