[Ltsp-developer] Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Access from MS Windows

[Hallvard P. <hal...@c2...>]

søndag 12. desember 2004 07:23, skrev ja...@ti...:
> Hello,
>
> > Ive been googling around trying to find a relitively simple way of
> > accessing the LTSP server from a windows machine but without much
> > success.
> >
> > Id like to have the few remaining windows computers on my network have an
> > icon on the desktop that users can simply double click and a GDM login
> > will popup in a window.  Id imagine this could be possible with cygwin
> > (or hopefully a lighter solution) but would like to know for certain
> > before I embark down that path.
>
> These are my opinions, and what I could have been told when I was trying:
> YMMV and different opinions should and will exist.
>
> There are nice windows X servers for munnie (US$100's)
> Cygwin is big and hard
> VNC is very good at what it does, and is adequate as an X server
>
> So I would a) dual boot, windows and a thin client
>            b) Use VNC (see the contrib howto)
> 	   c) get an eval copy of a commercial X server
> 	   d) Purchase an X server

What happened to Cygwin (big and hard, isn't that good?)?? In my view it is 
the best bet. I even managed to run an 3D-CAD system from a UNIX host 
displayed on the secound latest Cygwin X server, with adequate performance...

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Hallvard P