Hallo Florian,

FT> I'm interested in a setup that can be used for regular thin-clients plus
FT> fat-clients (machines that normally run MS Windows). There should be
FT> some kind of "viewer" you can use to get terminal sessions in a window
FT> (or fullscreen, doesn't matter) during normal work on these machines.

FT> VNC would be an obvious solution but it can't allocate more than a bunch
FT> of sessions (about 10) IIRC.

FT> Has anyone done any testing with non-commercial X servers for Windows? I
FT> think there is one built with cygwin, but I never tried that...

I just did (good idea).
Standard installation with XFree support, then on the command line
issue
"X -query 10.17.151.64"
(if that's your server that is LTSP-ready).

Worked instantly, and like a charm.
There is also a user guide (which I did not need so far) where you
probably can read how to go full-screen.

Remember that this is dangerous:

"Hach, it's Linux, just switch the box off"

(In fact, in out setup in Bonn Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium, users start
asking if they may just switch off the boxes when running Win3.1
locally)

FT> Are there any other smart solutions for that problems?

Commercial ones? VMware runs a ltsp terminal out-of-the-box with the
lance etherboot.dsk file from rom-o-matic.net.
Xwin32 also works.

Free ones? No idea. Cygwin seems to be pretty cool :-)

Viel Spa�,
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