On 30 Oct 2001 at 10:19, Jason A. Pattie wrote:
> Are you wanting to establish a secure link across your WAN between two
> LAN's? If so, do you have an LTSP server on the side that has the
> thin-clients or is it on the other side of the WAN from them and they
> are pulling everything across the WAN (NFS filesystem, X traffic,
> etc.)?
>
> Or are you wanting the LTSP thin-clients themselves to establish an
> IPSec tunnel with the LTSP server and communicate securely for
> absolutely every packet of traffic after downloading their kernel? If
> so, you will need some type of local storage on the machine in order
> to store the RSA private key for each individual thin-client.
Thanks for your comments. A bit more explanation is needed. We have been advised by
our accounting
package software vendor, that in order for it to be used across a WAN, then we need
Citrix Metaframe or
similar (I am dubious, as the package claims that it is a client/server package).
Obviously Citrix is not a
cheap solution. The "thin clients", in this case, are standard Windoze boxes that
need to communicate
across the WAN to our NT server. The question really is, if we need a Metaframe type
package, could this
be handled by LTSP on a Linux server, which manages the WAN, and redirect the traffic,
as required, to
the NT server?
Thanks,
--
Allan Curtis
Engineering Manager
Maxitherm Boilers Pty Ltd
17 Edinburgh Road, Hamilton
New Zealand
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