Re: Linux (Suse) TS ?
- From: PerfectReign <theperfectreign@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 07:08:22 -0800
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 15:25:28 +0000, BearItAll took a five-minute break
from flipping burgers to boot the etch-a-sketch and scribble out:
> On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:18:25 +1100, Billy wrote:
>
>> HI chaps, wondering if you can point me in the right direction here.
>>
>> I'm looking at a way to grant work-at-home users access to their favourite
>> Windows applications (Outlook, certain MS only applications etc ).
>>
>> Now, I was thinking maybe TS would be the way to go. I'm looking at a few
>> users to begin with, maybe 20-30, scaling up to maybe a few hundred over
>> time..maybe even as high as 500.
>>
>> I would like to be able to put 1.5 meg ADSL connections in their houses and
>> supply them with company hardware all set up and ready to go.
I dunno, that might be a bit slow. I have been very happy telecommuting
with my 3Mbps connection, though.
<snip >
> IPsec-VPN is secure, at least the communications are. For a fully secure
> system though you want some control of what happens on each end of the
> communications. Which you are obviously concidering. A bored sales rep,
> or one of your users kids could load anything on a normal PC and that
> then has access to the works end of your tunnel once the user has logged
> in.
Now, if he/she uses a bootCD then the user could be on one system for
daily use and this systemn for work. However, I do agree with one of the
other posters who mentioned Wyse or other dedicated terminal stations.
Not a bad idea, either.
>
> It is very wise to be over strict with off site workstations. If those
> stations were XP, then at least you would want the users to not have
> access to load programs.
>
> You are looking at using Linux workstations, which at least means the PC
> could still be used as a family PC, with only the employees login
> activating the vpn tunnel. I say that because our sales reps and work at
> home directors started moaning because they had to have a PC for work
> and another for home. I can't trust either so only allow them to share
> the work PC if they move to Linux (I can be a right tyrant when the mood
> takes me).
ROTFLMAO!! I like that. :)
>
> I had a visitor recently and while we had a meeting he connected to his
> office using an Orange PCMCIA card which actoed like a moden and
> connected him to his work system. It was painfully slow, it looked to me
> like it had to download the entire MS Outlook data and desktop before it
> could even start, I don't mean just displays because once past this
> first step display updates were alright, certainly not great though.
>
> That is a backward step. Because remote systems are meant to only update
> displays, so screen updates can be very fast, key responses are
> reasonable but you have to remember that it is the server end that is
> acting on the keystrokes so there will always be some delay.
>
> If you have no choice but to go TS because of the MS Apps then I'd look
> very closely at what options you have in the setup for each part of the
> application, there must be a lot of default data passing that isn't
> needed.
>
> But if you can opt out of MS, then you would find that vnc of linix apps
> run much better. No need to pull the entire desktop to the local
> machine, just the application's display. Concider this also, you can nfs
> over VPN, so each of your users machines is just a branch off your
> servers volume tree, have their data volume on your server. Then if they
> do come into work and log in locally, everything is as they left it when
> at home.
Actually, I've had the opposite experience. I telecommute every Friday
and occasionally at night. I've got both VNC on my XP desktop in addition
to TS. I find that from either my Win2K or SUSE systems, the RDC protocol
works faster and better than VNC. In fact, it is really nice that the RDC
connection maps to my local printer for those short print jobs.
Now, that said, nothing beats firing up a browser and typing in my
workstation's IP with the 5800 port to get quick access over VNC. >
> If you can go that root then you might also like to consider xoops.org
Huh? What does Xoops have to do with remote access? (Don't get me wrong,
I have five websites running on Xoops, I just don't get the relation.)
--
kai
www.perfectreign.com
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