On Sunday 21 January 2007 05:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I just had an interesting question come up. > > > > Is it possible to have a "remote" LTSP terminal? By remote, I mean > > really remote, as in another town. > > > > The local terminals all run though a router, of course, and the router is > > connected to the big bad world, so is it possible to forward a connection > > through the router to said big bad world and have a terminal at another > > IP address completely? > > If you mean a diskless terminal, it isn't practical (if it is actually > possible at all). If you mean: can you get a remote session on a remote > LTSP server, then the answer is yes, several different ways. > > The NX client from Nomachine.com works with the OSS "freenx" service and > even allows remote services like sound. NX uses SSH for transport, so the > session is encrypted and you only have to forward TCP port 22 at your > firewall to the LTSP server to gain access. > > VNC can work too, but it doesn't use an encrypted transport and that makes > it less than ideal for remote access. You can "wrap" VNC in an SSH tunnel > using port forwarding, or use stunnel to encrypt the session on both ends > (I've done both), but NX is a better approach. > > Finally you could set up a VPN connection and use VNC, NX or even regular X > sessions (talk about slow). While quite an investment in resources (time, > HW and SW), a VPN could be used for other things as well. > > It is also possible to use these same approaches with a client from one > LTSP server/terminal to establish a session with another (remote) LTSP > server. > > My choice in most cases would be NX.
You could put the whole 'ltsp root' on a flash disk We used ebox 2300 at $87 + 256M flash at $19 from the taiwanese manufacturer to do just this. So your sexy thin client + ltsp + nx is easy! James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
