Re: OT Open source Windows terminal server?
From: Benedict Verheyen (benedict.verheyen_at_sjki.be)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 13:03:59 +0100 To: Franki <franki@htmlfixit.com>
Franki wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Just a quick question for the guru's here...
>
> I've been installing Linux servers (usually Debian or Mandrake at
> present) into small biz as file servers/DHCP/MTA etc for some time now,
> but I've recently had a request I'm not sure I can help with.
>
> The client has a big investment in Quickbooks, and quickbooks integrats
> into MSoffice, so they need to continue with both of those.. however
> they want to swap to a terminal services layout because Quickbooks was
> never really designed for network use (unlike something like SQL-ledger)
> and when there are dozens of people using it over the network
> (client/server), it gets really slow.
>
> I have some small experiance with LTSP, but that isn't going to help
> much in this regards.
>
> What I'd like to do is find a GPL alternative to buying Windows terminal
> server (They already have a Windows 2003 file server and run an NT
> domain style network, (don't look at me, I didn't set it up.)) Is there
> any GPL software that can perform the tasks required on a Windows
> server? I would then install and setup rdesktop on the clients and run
> Linux on all of them.
>
> That way they could get the benefit of Windows terminal server, without
> the huge cost to them,, and I can swap all their desktops to light
> weight dumb terminals. And they can keep using Office and Quickbooks.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas if what I am proposing is even possible?
>
> In short, what I am asking is, Is there some GPL clone of Windows
> terminal services that will run on a windoze server, that can allow
> Windows apps to be run over the internal network from Linux based dumb
> terminals?
>
>
> rgds
>
> Franki
>
>
Ever thought about using QEMU to install a win on a Linux server and
then installing quickbooks with all other needed programs into the
virtual server?
Maybe that's something that could work?
Regards,
Benedict
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