David, your doco to set up the Linux Desktop over Cygwin was great. I have
been using it at work since the day you posted it on the CLUG mailing list.
I have experimented a little though and found that on Mandrake 10 and SuSE
9.1 some of your advice is not needed:-
This bit is all I needed....
On your Linux PC, edit kdmrc and enable XDMCP:
[Xdmcp]
Enable=true
Not this bit.........
Edit Xaccess and uncomment the following lines:
* #Any host can get a login window.
* CHOOSER BROADCAST #Any indirect host can get a chooser
* CHOOSER %hostlist #
I'm not sure what those lines mean or what security implications they may
cause.
Regards, Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: David Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2004 9:56 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: proposal for publicity
Here is an idea that would give people the option to run Windows programs or
Linux programs. There is no need for dual booting, emualtors or virtual
machines.
Set up an LTSP server and install lots of applications on it. On the
Windows workstations, install Cygwin/X (or have them run it from a Samba
share). Configure it to run in Multi-Window mode on startup
(startxwin.bat). Now install PuTTY and Plink. Create icons or batch files
that use Plink to create an ssh session to the LTSP server and run
applications from the Linux server on the local X server.
This will allow people to run Linux applications and Windows applications
simultaneously. They probably won't even know that it is a Linux
application.
I have partially tested this here at work. I haven't installed LTSP, but I
do have a headless linux box under my desk. It works beautifully. There
are still a few minor issues to sort out (like authentication and getting
rid of the command prompt that opens up), but it looks very promising.
Now if someone wants to run one of these applications at home they will have
to install Linux :-)
You could also have an etherboot floppy (or a boot EPROM in the ethernet
cards) for each workstation. Then they can have a full KDE/Gnome/OtherDM
desktop if they want.
The other option is to run a full Linux Desktop on top of the Windows
desktop. I have already documented this at
http://clug.inode.co.nz/index.php/Cygwin. I have also just updated that
doco with instructions for running Linux apps on your Windows desktop.
Later
David Kirk
