Have you considered doing a remote reinstall of all your clients every morning? I'm sure there is a way to automatically installing windows machines via some form of ghosting.
W ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Beaird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Breshears Doug P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] vmware player instead of rdesktop? > Breshears Doug P wrote: > > Jeff, > > > > This sounds so bad but with 40+ apps you have to support why not just > > run > > Windows natively and provide a NXClient or VNC Client session into an > > LTSP > > Server for those that would use it. > > > > How does putting another layer over Windows (VMWare) help with the > > maintenance of the images? If you are providing the users access to > > install their own apps then you will most certainly have the same > > maintenance issues that you are trying to be rid of regardless of being > > in VMWare or going native. > > > > Thanks, Doug. If for whatever reason performance is not what I need, or > I hit too many snags along the way (like getting ssh and ltspfs to work > at the same time--see my listserv post of a couple of days ago), I will > indeed have to continue in the fat Windows client path I have been > running in for the last ten years. I've got another month or so to > figure out if this solution is viable. > > I really expect that maintenance of VM's would be easier than the > maintenance of regular Windows PC's. I don't want to take this > discussion too far off-topic, but I've yet to see a really workable fat > client deployment solution that does everything I want and does it > easily. It seems much easier to load a VM on my workstation, install a > new application, copy the entire Windows VM out to the thin clients > overnight, and be done with it. It costs a bit of bandwidth, but our > building is empty at 2am, and therefore not costly in terms of > competition for bandwidth. > > I'm really happy to know that what I'm considering sounds like it is, at > least, conceptually, possible. I'll post the results of my attempts in > a few weeks. > > Thanks all, > -- > Jeff Beaird > Systems and Technological Services > Buswell Memorial Library > Wheaton College > Wheaton, IL > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
