Re: diskless linux pc to acces win2k terminal server/citrix ?
From: Menno Duursma (menno_at_desktop.lan)
Date: 01/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:30:37 GMT
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:36:17 -0800, jonajonajona wrote:
> Hi
Hello.
> I am willing to deploy a solution where all the win2k operating
> systems would be running on a terminal server.
Don't forget to reboot it (at least weekly).
> The idea is to use old pc's that would boot with bootp/dhcp/tftp
That would be either: bootp /or/ dhcp. However "dhcpd" can answer bootp
reqest also. And instead of tftp some NICs might like rarp.
> and load a very simple/light linux system
If you are looking into the Citrix ICAClient depends on XFree86 and Motif,
(IIRC) and that may make squeezing it in cople of MB hard to do. Thus, you
prabably want to run an NFS service on the boot-server machine as well.
> that would then connect to a win2k terminal server and provide the win2k
> login windows;
I think to remebmber a "win2k terminal server" only displays 256 colours.
Therefor you need Citrix Metaframe for it to be usefull. If this isn't a
problem (or you are actually running w2k3) there is a free RDP client for
Linux - which you might want to use: http://www.rdesktop.org/
> in such a way that users will not 'see' that they are
> running a linux system.
Why? (Leave the "Loading linux..." in place! (feed kernel: "quiet")).
> I have checked ltsp and all the related sites.
Good. If at all possible (get NICs that do), read about "pxelinux":
http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php
> Do you have experience
Yes.
> or comments with such an architecture ?
Way better to use Linux on the servers as well. If you have a win32
application, that fails in Wine, try the crossover office:
http://www.winehq.com/
http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/
They have Linux thin-client software, as well.
> Many thanks for your answers
Maybe read through this thread:
http://groups.google.nl/groups?threadm=pan.2003.05.13.04.00.59.169574%40desktop.local
But you might very well, be better off doing the LTSP thing. And giveing
users that _realy_ need (some application which is only available on
wintel) access to it by way of allowing them to fire up a RDP/ICA client.
But then you may want to have a look at x86 emulation, for that as-well
(slower, but probably still supporting more users then TSE) - QEMU, Bochs:
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
HTH.
-- -Menno.
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