Thanks for the response John,
Basically the company is small consisting of only 4 employees! Currently
they have 2 separate USB printers, 1 dot matrix, 1 multi-function. On
top of that they use computers which are ancient with max having 512MB
RAM and 1.6GHz Celeron CPU's. They have no means for backup and their
accounting machine is not even connected to the web!
This is kinda what I'm dealing with...... it's a very old and defunct
system which needs revitalizing with minimum or no cost. Meaning that I
can rent them Rays no problem as I'm building a data center next door to
them and can link them into the data center network without compromising
security at all as will be using machine based firewalls and many ACL's
in Cisco switches.
Erm, yeah that's about what I'm trying to achieve :-)
So I reckon the Vbox setup will do instead of MS Server or an RDP based
setup; weighing in cost, performance, usage, etc..
Regards,
Kaya
On 02/02/10 00:27, John Francis wrote:
On 2 February 2010 07:53, Kaya Saman<[email protected]> wrote:
On 02/01/10 22:26, Carl Holzhauer wrote:
If you need multiple users, you do not want to use XP; you will need
Server 03/08 (preferably 08 r2)
There is a hack that will allow multiple concurrent sessions on XP Pro
SP2 and SP3.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/06/13/enable-multiple-concurrent-remote-desktop-connections-or-sessions-in-windows-xp/
Read your Windows EULA and figure out the licensing issues for
yourself. A certain accounting package is known to run orders of
magnitude faster in multi-user mode when all the users are on the same
machine and file access is local.
Thanks for the response, but which way is the best to go for when setting
this up: separate machine, VBox, or something like VMware or Sun Xvm?
I know this all is dependent on what one's needs are but am after a 'best
practice' if there is such a thing here??
How many users and virtual machines are we talking about here? For a
small setup, VirtualBox is small, fast and easy.
Also I can connect up local printers to Rays too can't I?
Yes, but IMHO network enabled printers are cheap enough and are much
more flexible.
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