On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, A.J. Venter wrote: > > Do you wish to remain diskless ? > > I do not think this is possible. > > > There is a way actually. You will need to set up a machine running > windows 2000 terminal server. Normally you would then have accessed the > terminal server using software running on top of a fat-client windows > install (e.g. win95 on the local drive, connecting to a windows 2000 > terminal session). > The other way is to use ltsp to get your thin-clients booting as true > diskless clients. Install the rdesktop program for linux, and access the > windows terminal server via rdesktop. > > This will be pretty tight on your network bandwith though, you are now > using a linux thin-client session, to connect to a windows thin-client > sesssion all of which you are doing over the same pipes. > > You will deffinitely need to budget on switches and 100mb cards, even > then you probably won't be able to handle more than a few clients at a > time. A.J., you are right about the bandwidth, but there is an reasonably easy way to overcome it: what you may want to do is to set a *separate* network to connect servers, that way the terminal traffic stays unchanged, the rdesktop - win traffic is isolated on a separate nic. the server will eventually become you bottleneck, but that will take a long time, since network services run at a very high priority. julius
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