[FreeNX-kNX] When deploying Linux

[Doug Burks]

Hi Chris,

This is absolutely possible!  You can build one FreeNX server that
your FreeNX thin clients connect to.  The FreeNX clients would be
configured for Gnome or KDE and would receive that as their normal
environment.  You could then populate their Gnome/KDE desktops (or
program menus) with a launcher that would fire up nxdesktop, connect
to the Windows terminal server, login automatically with a certain
username/password, and start a particular application (with no Windows
desktop, Start Menu, etc.).  For more information, try "man nxdesktop"
from a command line on the FreeNX server.

If one Windows account is only going to be running one particular
Windows application, you can also force this within Active Directory
(if available).  You can find this option in Active Directory Users
and Computers --> user properties --> Environment tab --> Start the
following program at logon.

Let us know how this works out for you.

Thanks,
Doug


On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 11:02:51 +0200, Chris Fanning
<christopher.fanning at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When moving a whole group of users over to Linux you can almost be
> sure that they are using some application that can't be easily
> migrated. From a horrible mess of MSaccess queries, to some customized
> accounting application.
> 
> I'd like to know if I can setup a freeNX network with Linux desktops
> and use a Windows Terminal Server to server those applications I can't
>  initially migrate.
> 
> What level of integration is possible?
> I know you can open an NX session with the MSoft Terminal Server from
> within X, but can I run just one MS application and have it open
> within my Gnome o KDE?
> 
> Running an application from the MS Terminal Server inside KDE as if it
> were a native Linux application is very interesting indeed.
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