On Thursday 18 Dec 2008, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: > The situation is like this. A guy who was a techie at Microsoft wants > to have RDP from thin clients without the license restrictions. This > person is a client of a personal friend of mine, so I am being forced > to help him.
Licence restrictions are more than just a technical limitation - they are a legal restriction, which cannot be circumvented by using Linux. > The plan is to boot Linux over network and use RDP client in Linux to > connect to Windows Terminal service. I am not exactly sure why this > ex-Microsoft guy wants only WIndows XP as server, not Linux server. Worth finding out - you could have this working using a traditional LTSP set-up in an hour or so, including having clients booting rdesktop automatically. > But the problem is that he isn't able to get this working on latest > Intel Atom boards and Amd Sempron machines, due to the fact that the > kernel doesn't have neccessy drivers for NICs on these boards. > > So, what he wants from me is a kernel that can be loaded by PXE boot > and a file system that gives an rdesktop. > > Is it feasible at this point? I would say so, but it makes my head hurt - it's probably the most convuluted method of connecting to a Windows machine imaginable, and does nothing to avoid the licensing costs. -- Chris Roberts LTSP Version : 5.1.10-1~40 Windows Manager : KDE 3.5.5 Distribution : Debian Etch Kernel : 2.6.22-3-k7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
