Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 12, 2003 10:28 PM
I'm a different A/C<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-) but want to address a few points:
Can you say it can do multi-media? Yes. Not very easily, it can be done. Schools in Norway are there already.
Can the thin clients run Gnomemeeting local on the desktop off of the server (what happens to the server if the thin clients all want to run these kinds of apps at the same time)?
a) don't know, b) depends on the specs of the server. Any server can be brought to its knees by an overload of thin clients, don't forget available bandwidth. Skolelinux uses about 20 clients per server, which is more than we schedule for the Citrix servers at work.
How thin can these clients get (Citrix does it down to about 10-15k per... and is very fast over a 28.8 modem)?
With Citrix, aren't you running the client under a full Windows workstation? LTSP et al boot from a floppy and load everything else it needs from the server. No local disk needed. Granted, X11 could be faster over a 28.8, but we don't see that kind of use in schools or businesses. (Our remote users at work have either ISDN or ADSL connections, on Citrix)
Can VNC and TightVNC allow a "client" to connect over the web and have the server auto-setup an attached printer (without going thru hell first)?
Let me see if i understand correctly: At work, I connect to my home machine over TightVNC ( and VPN). I want to print from my home system at a work printer.
OK - I haven't done that, will try next time in the office, since I'm printing to a network printer already it should be easy enough to set up another network printer for the home CUPS server? As long as there is no blocking at a firewall, there should be no problem.
A printer attached to my office computer, well, that computer must of course make its printer available first, either by running an IPP service or by 'sharing' the printer. In the first case, I'd use CUPS again, and in the second case I'd have to run smbclient on the home machine to reach the Windows printer.
Interesting - it will be useful to find out about this, for my current project.
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Re:What about local graphics and multi-media etc?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 12, 2003 10:28 PMCan you say it can do multi-media?
Yes. Not very easily, it can be done. Schools in Norway
are there already.
Can the thin clients run Gnomemeeting local on the desktop off of the server (what happens to the server if the thin clients all want to run these kinds of apps at the same time)?
a) don't know, b) depends on the specs of the server. Any server can be brought to its knees by an overload of
thin clients, don't forget available bandwidth. Skolelinux
uses about 20 clients per server, which is more than we
schedule for the Citrix servers at work.
How thin can these clients get (Citrix does it down to about 10-15k per... and is very fast over a 28.8 modem)?
With Citrix, aren't you running the client under a full
Windows workstation? LTSP et al boot from a floppy
and load everything else it needs from the server.
No local disk needed. Granted, X11 could be faster over
a 28.8, but we don't see that kind of use in schools or
businesses. (Our remote users at work have either ISDN or
ADSL connections, on Citrix)
Can VNC and TightVNC allow a "client" to connect over the web and have the server auto-setup an attached printer (without going thru hell first)?
Let me see if i understand correctly: At work, I connect to my home machine over TightVNC ( and VPN). I want to print from my home system at a work printer.
OK - I haven't done that, will try next time in the office, since I'm printing to a network printer already it should
be easy enough to set up another network printer for the home CUPS server? As long as there is no blocking at a firewall, there should be no problem.
A printer attached to my office computer, well, that computer must of course make its printer available first, either by running an IPP service or by 'sharing' the printer. In the first case, I'd use CUPS again, and in the second case I'd have to run smbclient on the home machine to reach the Windows printer.
Interesting - it will be useful to find out about this, for my current project.
I hope others can answer your other questions !
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