[2005-06-16 22:05] Greg Brown said:
| 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'll piss off all my Open Source constituents here and say that
Microsoft's RDP is _much_ better than VNC (and X), in my experience,
for remote GUI apps[1]. If your buddy can run the RDP server (er,
Terminal Server, or somesuch) on his Windows boxes, you can install
rdesktop and/or tsclient to access an MS desktop.
| 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?
Actually, RDP is quite usable when the server is at the end of
a normal DSL/Cable connection, which is more than I can say for
VNC and/or X :-\
b
[1] Please, please, please someone tell me how to make X perform
as well as RDP so I can stop admitting that Microsoft actually
has something better than us...
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