Re: [Sheflug] Wiki links wanted (Dinnington.net + Plone event)

[Bob Holland <bobholland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 15 March 2007 19:31, Lesley Anne Binks wrote:
>  am not sure I understand the term 'server sessions' here
>  so I may be misinterpreting what you are saying.

Maybe I am talking rubbish!

>  The X 
> window system uses rpc/portmap and opens a port on 600.  I
> have no idea what your firewalling is like for a community
> network, but X-Windows is generally considered 'poor form' on
> servers. Somehow I feel sure you know that already.

Registered users of the network can log in to our applications servers using 
the FreeNX clients. Users then see a standard Ubuntu desktop with a range of 
applications available - e.g. OOo, Gimp etc. We still need to do some tidying 
up of the applications available as things like screen savers can kick in at 
the server end and start loading both the server and the network. We have one 
particular user who logs in from home via a standard dial-up landline, 
downloads loads of stuff to his home directory on the server, then comes into 
our community centre to burn this onto CD. Very enterprising use of our 
broadband backhaul, but once he has started stuff downloading he then goes to 
work, causing his session to run a screen-saver over our backhaul. Other 
familiar desktop applications which refer to server-local hardware devices 
(like CD burning) are not useful. Printing via CUPS to local printers appears 
to work, but this is not implemented as we initially thought and there are 
some firewalling problems when trying to do this from outside our wireless 
network.

HTH, but I'm sure Alex can tell us more...

Bob
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