[nflug] Citrix / TS alternatives

[David J. Andruczyk]

Virtual Box is also a good choice and offers some good things
vmware does like rdp remote sessions and USB over RDP.


--- Richard Hubbard <rhubby at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  I think you will find that the biggest problem you will have is
> that M$ won't let you run any kind of terminal services (except
> for admin mode, max 2 administrators at a time) without paying
> them. Once you have paid M$, then you can use lots of different
> programs to connect to the server.
> 
> What your best bet is probably going to be is vmware to run winxp
> on your clients.  You've already licensed the client OS, so that
> shouldn't be a problem. Deployment should be a snap.  Install one
> VM, install WinXP,  and all of the software your users will need,
> then run sysprep to roll back the install slightly (so you don't
> have issues with different virtual machines having the same
> names, etc), and copy that image to everyone who needs winders. 
> Problem solved.
>  
> Richard Hubbard 
> Technology Solutions Inc
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Justin Bennett <Justin.Bennett at Dynabrade.com>
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:57:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [nflug] Citrix / TS alternatives
> 
> Thanks for the post!
> Most of these (and what I can find) require a windows terminal
> server, 
> which I believe you still need to buy a CAL to be legal, which
> I'm 
> hoping to avoid, so I would need something that has it's own
> server 
> piece independent of terminal services.
> 
> David J. Andruczyk wrote:
> > Nomachine NX (in RDP bridge mode), rdesktop, virtualbox using
> > remote RDP, etc...
> >
> > --- Justin Bennett <Justin.Bennett at Dynabrade.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >>     Just wondering if you anyone is doing any application
> >> deployment 
> >> with a citrix type setup. Basically we're considering
> migrating
> >> some 
> >> desktops over to linux, but have a handful of applications we
> >> can't find 
> >> a linux replacement for (at least one we can sell). I can do
> the
> >> WINE 
> >> thing but have a few things that are kinda flaky under wine.
> The
> >> point 
> >> is I was thinking maybe I can have one windows machine acting
> >> like a 
> >> terminal type server, that I can do a  remote application for
> >> those 
> >> applications I can't go native with in Linux. Obviously I
> would
> >> need the 
> >> server component avaliable for windows, and a linux client.
> >>
> >> Any recomendations?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Justin
> >>
> >>
> >>    
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