Keld,
I can tell you from personal experience with VNC and a Windows environment
that you don't really want to do this.
VNC under Windows isn't particularly good at refreshing windows after they
update.
For example, whenever I remote control into our Windows NT print server
using VNC, I have to select the "Refresh screen" option every time I click a
check-box or change a printer's IP address. Otherwise, it doesn't redraw
the updated screens properly on its own. This quickly gets very annoying.
(Even the VNC documentation mentions that they're aware of some screen
refresh/redraw issues in Windows, but the author is primarily concerned and
knowledgeable with VNC in Unix/X - and makes it sound like these Windows
issues are secondary.)
As for it requiring a license, I suspect this is a "grey area". I'm sure
Microsoft salespeople would be quick to decide that you do, indeed, need
some sort of additional license to be legal for it -- yet people have been
remote controlling machines with PC Anywhere and "Carbon Copy" for ages
without special licenses.
Message: 1
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:28:57 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Keld_J=F8rn_Simonsen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP and VNC
Hi!
VNC is a system to completely copy a screen to another
screeen, and also have control via the keyboard and mouse
on the other machine.
What would be the implications of VNC run from a LTSP
terminal to a Windows workstation?
Licencewise would that require another Windows license?
Performance: would it work reasonably and what would
be the bottlenecks? Is the network the worst bottleneck?
So my idea was that I could buy sau 4 Windows licenses and have
people on 30 LTSP stations have access to those via VNC,
and I would only have to pay for the 4 MS licenses. Of cause
I would only have acesss to 4 MS sessions at a time.
Kind regards
keld
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