[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX-kNX] nx, rdp and edusoft

[dewey hylton]

> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:28:42 +0200
> From: Kevin Verheyen <thepiano at telenet.be>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having a question about the use of tunneled rdp
> requests through nx.
> At our school (pilot project) we're running k12ltsp in the whole
> school, with the use of an added windows term server.
> As i'm living in Belgium we cannot simply leave the windows-edu-soft
> right now, cause most of the linuxedusoft is English only, and only a
> few are in dutch.
> (yes, we are translating ;-)
> 
> At this moment we're testing out if it would be possible to put all
> of our edusoft on a windows TS rackserver in a datacenter, so anyone
> can access those apps when needed, from within all schools of our
> community.
> It would definitly need less hands-on like having 10 TS servers in
> our schools....
> (The schools all have ADSL 3800down/512up)
> 
> The connection would be made through an additional FreeNX server, for
> compression of the whole bunch ;-)
> Has anyone ever tried such a setup?
> Suggestions? Recommendations?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated ;-)
> 
> Greetz
> 
> 
> Kevin Verheyen
> Sysadmin Sint-Lutgardisschool Schelle
> Belgium
> http://sint-lutgardis.be
> 
> [Xpost also on K12KTSP list] 

i have a few customers doing exactly what you're describing. in one case, i've
saved a little money by using winxp in conjunction with "winconnect server xp"
from http://thinsoftinc.com/ ... in fact, in that case winxp is running inside a
dual-cpu virtual machine sitting on a linux application server - which lowered
the total cost of deployment (seeing how vmware server is now free).