[nflug] Citrix / TS alternatives

[anthonyriga]

What about Win4Lin
--- "David J. Andruczyk" <djandruczyk at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 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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