[K12OSN] Re: K12LTSP across the Wan - NX status?

[Eric Brown]

I would like to second Sean's pitch for No Machine NX.  The speed is
incredibly fast.  Our district has a rather sluggish T-1 connection, but I
was able to connect to my Gnome desktop on my webserver just as fast as I
was sitting there.  I've used VNC also, but No Machine NX was truly the
better product.  It's so good, I'm even planning on purchasing a few
licenses (rather than search for an open source alternative).  It will even
run over SSH, which is more secure, and makes for fewer ports you must have
open.
Eric Brown 

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of Sean Harbour
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 1:32 PM
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Subject: [K12OSN] Re: K12LTSP across the Wan - NX status?

The No Machine NX protocol is supposed to be the ideal solution for your
application, that is, thin client access to a terminal server over a slow
WAN link. A quick google confirms that there are people working on this for
K12LTSP http://www.mailbucket.org/rss_k12osn-506780.html and if memory
serves, this was a hot topic at the last K12LTSP convention back east. NX
has a commercial version and a free version, not sure of the details right
now, but it is supposed to be as good as MS RDP or better over low bandwidth
links. They claim a graphical terminal session is quite useable over dialup.
Now, getting your terminals to boot from a remote K12LTSP server is a
different topic, but it should work fine with a locally installed NX capable
client.

Can anyone on the list give us a status on NX support?

Hope this helps,

Sean Harbour
Network Engineer
Northwest Regional Education Service District
5825 NE Ray Circle, Hillsboro, OR 97124
503-614-1448

> 
> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:20:13 -0400
> From: "Rondall Stewart" <rstewart at iccpartners.com>
> Subject: RE: [K12OSN] K12LTSP across the Wan
> To: <smooge at gmail.com>, "Support list for opensource software in
>         schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
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> The WAN are connected with full T1 1.5M  Point to Points.
> 4 locations total (1 Lan and 3 Remote Location) Each school has 
> between 20 to 30 workstations (mostly labs) that would benifit from 
> this.
> The worsations are IBM's which vary in specs,  we cut the support 
> level at a Pentium 166 mhz with 32 Mb ram.  The good news is they all 
> are PXE enabled.
> 
> 
> Rondall Stewart
> Technical Team Leader
> ICC Technology Partners
> (606)886-8447



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