Re: OT Open source Windows terminal server?
From: Franki (franki_at_htmlfixit.com)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:12:09 +0800 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> 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
>
Yeah, i've considered that sort of thing as well, but the replacement
can't be less then what it is replacing or it will give unfavourable
impressions and I want them to love the new system and have an upbeat
view of Linux and OSS.
I was just hoping that someone had done a kind of LTSP port to windows
servers.
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