Set up the Linux server with your favorite desktop environment and VNC. Then you can open up the Linux-based desktop in a window on your Windows machines. It's almost as good as running Linux on your workstations.
-- Rod On Friday 05 August 2005 03:01 pm, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > John posted this from a non-subscribed address. I'm fwd'ing it along for him. > > > Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 14:47:26 -0700 > From: "John Marcotte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Linux Server - Windows Clients > To: <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I recently upgraded my workstations to Windows XP Pro so I can finally login > to servers again after "upgrading" to the massively crippled XP Home. > > I have to have Windows for my job. From a purely philiospohical position, I > wish I didn't. But I do. > > So I now have a Debian Linux server running Samba, and I have a few things > working. I can print across platforms. I can transfer files to and from the > server. But I could do those things with a Windows 95 box. > > I'm looking for better ideas on what to do with my shiny Linux server in a > Windows environment. > > Here's my current list of ideas: > > * an e-mail server that would run my e-mail through spamassassin before > delivering it to my workstations (or maybe some sort of IMAP arrangement) > * some sort of automated backup of selected PC directories > * a shared calendaring environment > > I'm no Linux guru. I know that there has to be more I can do with my Linux > boxen that I'm not thinking of. > > I'm a user, not a sysadmin. And setting up services on a server is not my > normal cup of tea. > > Anyone here have any cool ideas? Or advice on how to implement my admittedly > vague plans? I've always talked the talk when it comes to Linux. I want to > walk the walk, too. > > > John Marcotte > Biznerds Consultant Group > 916.455.5152 > http://www.biznerds.com/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
