I think there is some confusion in the term "LTSP server". You need a boot server, but it doesn't need to be running X services for the clients. Wine should be running on the thin clients themselves, not on the LTSP server, in which case you don't have an extra hop to get the data around.
William > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:sunray-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of John Francis > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 6:46 PM > To: SunRay-Users mailing list > Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Sun Desktop Access Client on PXE : Silly > question ? > > 2009/9/3 Philippe Schwarz <[email protected]>: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > William Yang a écrit : > >> I don't know how well it scales, but I know the Desktop Access Client > can > >> run under Wine, so it might be possible just to modify the LTSP scripts > to > >> start "wine alpclient.exe" instead of an X server. > >> > >> William Yang > > OK, thank you for your answer (And BTY for all of your docs about > > Sunray in general in tjhsst.edu). > > > > But, it doesn't eliminate the need for the LTSP server; it only adds a > > new hop in the process..Too bad. > > The "LTSP server" doesn't need to do much except export a couple of > file systems, set some DHCP options and make some stuff available over > TFTP. I'm not sure how you could hope to set up a PXE boot > environment without those three things. > > -- > Kind regards, > > John Francis > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
