On Friday 16 April 2004 19:55, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > Hi all > > I'm new to this list, so please forgive me for any faux-pas I make in > ignorance ;-) > > I work as a sysadmin in a small company and we're using Linux on the > desktop (mainly). I'm looking for an efficient and workable solution to run > MS-office applications, but I'd like to keep the desktops running Linux. > > One solution I thought up was that it might be possible to install one > really fast machine with lots of memory, running windows and a VNC server > and connecting the users to that machine from the Linux Desktop. If this > would fast enough of course ;-) > > My question is whether there is some experience with a solution like this > (and if so, what are the experiences with such a solution) or if not, why > is this not a good solution?
VNC is probably not the solution you want here, unless you are okay with only one user having access to the Windows machine at a time. You probalby want to look at rdesktop. http://www.rdesktop.org/ Cheers, Rasjid. -- Rasjid Wilcox Canberra, Australia (UTC +10 hrs) http://www.openminddev.net _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
