[nflug] Citrix / TS alternatives

anthonyriga torrodimerda at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 22 21:52:24 EST 2007


I worked for one company too that had used neoware
terminals that ran linux with citrix client. They were
solid. You connected them to a citrix server farm. 
--- anthonyriga <torrodimerda at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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