[FreeNX-kNX] bringing NX forward (was Compiling NX1.5.0 on amd64)

[Haakon Meland Eriksen]

Dear NX friends,

Friday 30 September 2005 00:45, Sunil wrote:
> I feel bad saying this but the only person trolling on
> this list has been Gian himself. This guy, Xiong, was
> frustrated with his problems

As a new member of the list, I didn't receive Xiong's initial request for help 
so I cannot comment on that. However, I did the receive the replies, and I 
find it neccessary to support Sunil. Gian, go outside and get a breath of 
fresh air, curse the sky and reply to annoying requests when you are not 
frustrated.

I joined the list as a curious user, because we are playing with NX at the 
moment. We tried to do that within the evaluation period gratefully offered 
by NoMachine, but because of other work this was not possible to complete, 
which turned us to FreeNX. We find NoMachines offer to be inexpensive, yet 
need more time to try before we buy and so on. 

We have a large number of customers, their accounts are created in an OpenLDAP 
directory. At the moment we use another thin client solution, which requires 
that the account information is recreated in another directory, there are 
some other problems, and it costs more. Once the setup is done, it works 
fairly well with 60-70 users at the same time giving little load. Using PAM, 
OpenLDAP and NX we are able to use only one directory solution on a low cost 
solution, and at the same time offer software to customers on Microsoft 
Windows. Our initial server side seems OK, however there are a few hick-ups 
with the nxclient for Windows. I going to try the latest version to see if 
these are gone.

As a user, I know that my contributions to this list mostly will not solve 
bugs or contribute any code. Sorry, Giani. Yet, I believe that as a systems 
administrator or "NX distributor" to customers, describing my problems here - 
to the great people that created this fantastic software - is the best place 
on earth to do it. Who else has the know-how? Nobody better! :-) So here is 
an idea I'd like to play share with you, and hopefully receive some comments:

Since we don't control the client side at all, it would be beneficial if the 
Windows client could packaged manually using Nullsoft Scriptable Install 
System, available at http://nsis.sourceforge.net/. The customer could then 
receive a specially built installation package, with no manual setup what so 
ever. Just install and off you go. Now that is not possible with the What do 
you think?

Yours sincerely,
Haakon Meland Eriksen