[email protected] schreef: > Dear all, > > I have been looking for a suitable set-up for our high school (Swiss > Gymnasium, grades 10 through 13, 400 students, 60 teachers) that would allow > our students to use their own netbook/laptop in class as well as at home. > Conditions are: > 1. no technical support for users' computers (therefore no installing > individual applications, no passing out images etc.) > 2. must work on computers in any state, even with broken OS, browser whatever > (so must allow terminal server solution as fall-back) > 3. plattform independent (win/mac/linux and independent of individual > computer models) > 4. must work over WLAN > 5. should be available on- as well as off-site > > A couple of years ago I started looking more closely into LTSP and I have set > up a test lab that works just fine. Though, the local nature of that makes it > less suitable to our needs. Clearly, I have studied NX and now I have > followed the development of X2GO more or less closely. I feel that X2GO is > the perfect candidate and I want to set up a larger-scale test network. > Before doing so, however, I would like to hear other people's experience with > such set-ups. > > I have compiled a preliminary list of questions (s.b.). If you have any > experience with larger scale X2GO set-ups, I would really appreciate your > input and I think others might be interested as well. Thanks a lot for > sharing your expertise! If you would like to communicate in German or French, > I can cope with both.
I have only experience with small scale setups. I will answer only some questions. > Cheers! > St. Müller, Switzerland > > QUESTIONS (yes/no, experience?) > 1) Local OS: > a) Copy/Paste from/to local OS Works fine. > b) Accessing local file systems > c) Support of local USB devices > d) Sound > e) Printing on local printer > f) Printing on local network printer / on remote network printer > 2) Set-Up, Administration: > a) number of server / user (50, 100, 150 > concurrent sessions) > b) Load Balancing, Cluster > c) Manageability of several parallel servers in administration > d) Band with > > e) Multimedia (Flash) Little flash animations are no problem, but bigger flash like films are too slow. Flash can make a user-session very slow, when people call me about a slow desktop I ask them to close all browser windows. In most cases it was flash and the problem is gone then. > f) Compatibility with Terminal Server > (LTSP) on same server or is X2GO usable also as directly as terminal server? I expect you can use LTSP and X2go on the same server, but X2go is really different. X2go is usuable directly without LTSP. X2go works trough SSH and don't uses a display manager (e.g. GDM). I will advise you to install and try it. You can make a one-node installation in about 10 minutes: http://www.x2go.org/fileadmin/doc/installation_x2go_debian_en.html A one-node installation is not what you want, but you will learn a lot about how X2go works and it's very easy to install. You could use a live-CD to test it, e.g.: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/i386/iso-cd/debian-live-504-i386-gnome-desktop.iso > g) Mounting homes from data server > h) Compatibility with administration servers (LDAP, ADS etc.) > i) Acess protection, security With regards, Paul van der Vlis. -- http://www.vandervlis.nl/ _______________________________________________ X2go-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
