Verner Kjærsgaard skrev: > Hi > > May I suggest you setup a heavy server with a fine distro onto it, my > recommendation is SuSE10.2, but others are just as good. > Install it with LTSP4.2 for (if any) real thin clients. > Install FreeNX onto it. > Let the notebooks be what they are (Windows anything...), let them have a > small NoMachine client icon on their desktop, click it and run it full > screen. > > This saves bandwidth. > > This way you have all of all worlds. Let the central server, if you like, run > a SAMBA server service - and of course, a DHCP server service too. > > > Thanks for the suggestion Verner,
Without having read much about FreeNx I just want to ask some basic questions: This means that the users boot their notebooks to whatever OS they may have and run a small applet to start a small ..x client which connects to the terminal servers. Without starting that client they get no access to any internet or network resources..? And from that client they run openoffice, firefox etc...via a terminal session with low bandwidth requirements ? Can we control access to own hardware (wireless network, bluetooth, disks)? How much server hardware do I need to serve 250 students (though all will almost never be online simultaneously)? Is the NoMachine approach a widely used and actively maintained solution? What about the possibility to run windows applications? Thanks for comments and facts ;-) Tor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
