VNC works fine for this type of application. It is a kick to VNC into a windows box from your Linux box and run all those apps remotely. :-)
Jon Carnes On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:05, Greg Brown wrote: > Hey all, got a call from a buddy in Florida asking me about OSS > alternatives to Citrix. This is WAAAY outside of my comfort zone as I > know next to nothing about Citrix, or VNC for that matter (past having > used it once or twice). > > Buddy Jeff is opening a second office and he wants to keep his servers > and data at the primary office (I know very few of the actual facts > past this). Assuming his applications are on Windows servers what are > his options here? Can he run a Linux desktop with a VNC connection > back to his primary office over a WAN connection and pull up a Win > "desktop" with access to his business apps? I'd even like to know if > that is possible. > > I am sure that even with a good size point-to-point circuit this type > of operation would be painfully slow, or would it? Has anyone > installed anything like this before? > > Greg -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
