Tomasz, See "IMPLEMENTING NX REMOTE DESKTOP TECHNOLOGY IN THE LTSP SYSTEM" at: https://oa.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/5803/stadia-1178614117-3.pdf?sequence=1
>From the executive summary: "This project focuses on studying and testing the benefits of the NX Remote Desktop technology in administrative use for Finnish Meteorological Institutes existing Linux Terminal Service Project environment." I haven't read the document in detail, but it seems they were successful in setting up NX on a LTSP server running Ubuntu 6.06 John New London, Ontario, Canada On April 1, 2008 09:36 am, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > SZABO Zsolt schrieb: > > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > >> By a "disconnected session", I mean: > >> > >> 1. User powers on a diskless workstation, starts a graphical session, > >> logs in, works with documents etc. > >> > >> 2. After some time, user disconnects the session without logging out > >> > >> 3. In the morning, user connects again, specifies credentials - his/her > >> session is restored in the same place where it was left yesterday (same > >> opened document, same opened page in Firefox etc.). > >> > >> > >> Is it possible in LTSP? > > > > It sounds like VNC... by this mean it is not impossible, however, it may > > require lots of memory/swap (depending on the concurrent number of > > sessions), IMHO. > > > > I have configured the ltsp-clients here to launch xvncviewer (in a > > wrapper that restarts it after exiting) on a screen (e.g. SCREEN_04 = > > ldm; SCREEN_05 = xvncviewer ) The user has to login only the first time > > through ldm and starts tightvncserver, then after logging out one can > > connect to the started vnc session from SCREEN_05... with pulse-audio the > > sound is OK but I cannot say anything how to use LOCALDEVs from VNC. > > > > Though, it is only me, who uses ltsp-clients in such a way and I setup > > this not for general purposes... > > VNC has poor performance even in LAN. > > I wonder how feasible would be to: > > 1. Install NX server on LTSP server - NX server provides disconnected > sessions, far better performance than VNC or even pure X over network > 2. When a client boots, nxclient is started > 3. User types the credentials, and starts a new session (or reconnects > to the existing one) > > Anyone ever tried something like this? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _____________________________________________________________________ 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
