On Wednesday 29 Apr 2009, Mohammed Riswan wrote: > please answer my quesion if anybody knows, is ltsp is works like a citrix > metaframe? can we create an individual sessions same like citrix for all > the users?
We use metaframe and ltsp, so I should be able to answer. Once the users have logged in, it works just the same as metaframe, with each user have their own user account and session. They log in/log out etc all pretty similar to metaframe. There is no in-built method of shadowing users, but various open source applications may be installed to fulfill this need. Users can be logged off easily enough. The key difference is that with metaframe you need to have a client operating system. Okay, you might buy dedicated thin clients, but they still have to have an operating system - even if it's only Windows CE. You then connect from that client o/s to the metaframe server. With LTSP, the LTSP server provides the client operating system at boot time. Thus the client can literally be bare metal (I always disconnect the hard drives). Thus with LTSP you only have to maintain the server, and the single client operating system which resides in a chroot directory on the server. The other key difference with metaframe, is that by default, LTSP won't work across subnets, and in particular across low-bandwidth connections. But we get around this by installing FreeNX on the server, and connecting from remote fat clients using NoMachine NX Client. Hope that helps. -- Chris Roberts +------------------+------------------+ | Distribution | Debian Etch | | LTSP Version | 5.1.10-1~40 | | Windows Manager | KDE 3.5.5 | | Kernel | 2.6.26-bpo.1-686 | +------------------+------------------+ | Distribution | Debian Lenny | | LTSP Version | 5.1.10-2 | | Windows Manager | KDE 3.5.10 | | Kernel | 2.6.26-2-686 | +------------------+------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _____________________________________________________________________ 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
