Riddler Posted January 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 This looks GREAT I think this is exactly what I need, if anybody has anymore documentation on the subject let me know. I really appreciate everyone's feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 You pretty much hit the nail on the head, with a non M$ client not only are licensing costs fewer but virus threats are fewer also. As far as dumbing down the users go it's pretty much been already implemented. We have a few site that hold all of their specialized apps (excluding office) and with this solution hopefully it would make our life easier. Your friend and yourself when you tried to implement this, where did you find the documentation or was there none. Is there anyway that you could send me what you have as far as documentation, if you can I will post my e-mail for you thanks. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ill ask my friend, its obviously a little sensitive. (It involved quite a few redundancies in his IT support and people moving to a town in the middle of nowhere if they wanted to keep there job, he preferred not to. ) The only part which was a challenge was for a CAD package... Now he's doing the same for a big hotel group.... Mine was all studying implementation on a pure UNIX side... most of the study is benchmarking bandwidth requirements for specialist scientific apps. It was meant to be all encompassing, replacing Win Apps as well but the bottom line was for M$ apps like office Citrix worked better and for 2D non-accelerated apps in unix tarantella was a good choice all round. A large part being the configurability and tools for the sysads... When 3D was needed then www.thinanywhere.com prooved unbeatable! but it is only a 2-tier system.. that is to run linux apps you need a linux server and solaris apps a solaris server etc. We have a mix of AIX/IRIX/Solaris/Linux so it was a pain this was as a generalist solution... and the 3-tier tarantella allowed cross platform. If you want to roll out Citrix then lots of resellers will give advice... and documentation. If you want to use the M$ terminal services I wouldn't know? Mainly I used my preferred method of suck and see ... that is we got demo licenses and played about. The tarantella stuff is very well documented on theior website and its 90% common sense (i.e. minimum delay between tarantella server and the app server) I'd already used metaframe on dial-in in my last posting so I already had a good idea of what was possible.. :D hope that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 This link explains all I needed to get started: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/.../TerminalServer I'm having trouble with the link though, so google's cache helps out here: http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:Ib9cT...&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 I did run into some strange things, but managed... at home things were easy, at work I had the problem that all was not 'official' so I didn't have a dhcp server or so - had to really get into grub to figure out how to do this thing with just telling grub from what ip to get the data and what ip to use for the machine itself. Also, I had to modify the initrd.img files for the various client machines to give them their own names and ip addresses and to know the ip address of the server... Interesting, but at home all was much much easier - just create the floppy with the respective boot image / network card driver and boot from it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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