You're right in that the docs are terrible - they're basically just W4L
2.0 docs. Even the readmes I had with the multi-user version were copied
from the 2.0 version so didn't really apply. But guesswork and a little
experimentation saw some light...

What you describe below seems ideal for Win4Lin though - we have a P700
server with 256mb ram and are currently testing this with Win4Lin
multi-user and some thin clients. Basically the server runs XDM and the
clients use XDMCP, so effectively log in to the server directly and X
displays the session remotely on the client terminal.

Machine specs seem unimportant - our thin clients are low-spec pentiums
with 32mb ram and happily run over 15 big apps (IE, MS Office97,
databases etc) each without seeing any downturn in performance - and the
performance is very very good. Obviously the more ram you can give the
server the better, and I expect we'll need to double ours as we add more
clients to the test, but it certainly works very well and would be ideal
for your setup.

Matt


> 
> Here is the situation.
> Most of my office is comprised of magnificent Dell new workstations (just
> did the upgrade), but I have 5 workstations in area where interns work that
> are 166P with 32RAM and less than gig drives. My server is also a fabulous
> Dell with Red Hat Linux 7.1 (as of today). I am looking to have a
> thin-client architecture for these workstations to keep them here longer. I
> would like to see some documentation on how this would be implemented via
> Win4Lin before I spend my valuable time trying to install and re-configure
> everything.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
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