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Re: [school-discuss] Emulation via Windows
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- Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Emulation via Windows
- From: Rob Rittenhouse <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 09:33:23 -0500
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Jimmy Pierre wrote:
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Greetings,
Has anybody got any experience on running some sort of Terminal Server
on a linux box and connect via a Windows Box?
Best wishes
Jimmy
Yes. There are several ways to do it:
Run X-terminal software on Windows (we found the Cygwin/X setup worked
well for our own needs) and connect to a Linux server. You can use xdm
on the Linux box and query for login or connect (via ssh for us) and run
individual apps on the Windows desktop. Uses a fair amount of network
bandwidth and won't work across some firewalls.
Use VNC. Current vnc has the capability of running as a service (-identd
switch) we've set it up to do so and query xdm (since I don't really
want 30 people running conventional vnc sessions). Disadvantage: fixed
resolutions.
Look into nx as well: see www.nomachine.com and the freeNX project
(http://freenx.berlios.de/ )
Feel free to query me further on this.
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Rob Rittenhouse