Re: [Ltsp-developer] freenx?

[Jim M. <jam@McQuil.com>]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Richard Houston wrote:

> >On Sat, August 13, 2005 9:51 am, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> > Ken,
> >
> >
> > Yes, it certainly is.  We're still trying to figure out exactly how it
> > is useful though.  On a large system, with many clients, my fear is that
> > while the bandwidth requirements would be low, the demand on the server
> > would be extremely high.
> >
> > But, we are interested in it, and seeing how we can integrate it into
> > LTSP.
> >
> >
> > Jim.
>
> One thing this would be nice for would be running LTSP over a slow link or
> a restricted bandwidth VPN. We were looking at just this thing for running
> X sessions to an LTSP server over a vpn as direct to X was way to slow.
> Not sure if this is possible but could freenx usage be a configurable
> option in lts.conf per client? So this could give us frenx for wan/vpn
> users and no freenx for local clients. Just a thought.

But that's not LTSP.  LTSP doesn't work over a wan for a number of
reasons.  I suppose if you had a remote office that included a small
bootserver to get the thin client booted up and running, you could then
use NX across the wan, to run the apps back at a main office.

Jim.


>
> Thanks
>
> Rich
>
>
>
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