Peter Machell wrote:

> On 30/03/2006, at 10:28 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>   and that its solvable either by ugrading the
>>
>> network bandwidth, or reducing the amount of data need to be 
>> transferred
>>
>> (e.g. by using the RDP protocol for thin client efficient pixel 
>> transfer - it's just
>>
>> efficient gui changes across the network, isn't it, ie that 
>> winconnect thing;
>
> It's just input and output, no processing, big reduction.
>
>> apparently its a RFC, so it's not windows specific , what is it ? )
>
> RDP is a Microsoft protocol and the server only works on Windows. You 
> can connect to it from almost any platform though.
>
>> is there a linux alternative for thin clients , e.g. X window 
>> system, and a windows
>>
>> emulator , and using a common data directory in wine with md2
>
> You don't need emulation to run an MD2 server because it's just a 
> file store. I've seen several MD2 installations on Samba servers on 
> Linux. 

Syan

rdp is excellent but nx is even more efficient. It's remote X with smart
caching.

MD2 would open under Wine when I tried it last year but it quickly froze
with usage (?opening a patient). It may work now but would need
extensive testing before you would trust it.

David


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