On Monday 07 October 2002 03:42, Buchan Milne wrote: > Stew Benedict wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Brent Hasty wrote: > > > > Correct, you are booting the kernel and running all apps locally on the > > client machine. > > But that kind of defeats the purpose? > > >>Using MDK Terminal Server, do the users on the terminals work at that > >>terminals native speed? > >> > >>Or do they get to do thier work with the muscle of the server? > > > > The server is providing nfs services only. The other side of the coin is > > running the apps on the server side generates quite a bit of network > > traffic. > > New 24-port 100mb switch is much cheaper than replacing the 22 desktops > that could run on such a network ... > > And I think starting up OpenOffice over NFS would be much more traffic > than via X. > > Surely it can't take too much to change this. The ?dm client > configurations just need to be changed to use query, and the server just > needs to allow XDMCP requests? > > Can we have a gui option for this? > > Buchan I would agree here, and a drak tool to accomplish it with a two buttons shoud do. One for thick, and one for thin client.
what would be the difficulty in changing this? if it is a couple weeks to a month away I may need to start working on implementing LTSP rather. If us mdk'ers can acomplish this I would prefer to use my Flavor of choice, mdk, implementation of terminal services. I like how it appears the clusternfs should work with terminal services. if there were annything I wanted to run on my terminals it would be mosix, for the purpose of handing thier unused cycles over for the server to allocate thier use.
