RE: [Sheflug] Terminal Services

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting "Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david [at] allvac.co.uk>:


> > > Is anybody using them, or know of any sites using them?
> > 
> > We use terminal services for our company computing, 
> > centralizing maintenance. We use LTSP (which really means 
> > Linux and XFree brought together with a few other necessary 
> > services) and also tightvnc to access the terminal server. I 
> > would recommend it for installations of 2 machines and up, 
> > it's quite wonderful to maintain only one machine for all your users.
> 
> A word of caution. I'm planning an LTSP implementation on our shop floor
> later this year and the problems we've had in testing almost exclusively
> relate to network cards, as you'll see if you search the archives.
> 

I have some questions
Are you dealing with local apps .. like sound, or peripherals like scanners,
cameras?

Different Distro's ?  Windowing systems ?

What sort of server size? - how many clients per server?

Strategies for sorting out X problems on old monitors?


thanks
AED
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