Thanks for the information on the NX and LTSP as we are very interested
in setting up these components to work in conjunction.
Would I also presume that the NX Client software is not open sourced?
Sincerely and have a good day,
Lonnie T. Cumberland
OutStep Technologies Incorporated
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Quoting Denis Cardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi Lonnie,
So in what situation would you want to use LTSP with FreeNX together?
FreeNX may be a good option if you have to be carefull about your
bandwidth consumption and latency (500Kbps for a ltsp terminal, down to
100Kbps or less for a NX terminal) . Moreover FreeNX encrypt by default
all traffic in an ssh tunnel, so if you need tight security, that a good
option.
Would it be that FreeNX is used just like VNC so that someone with a
Windows machine could access the LTSP server in a similar way that VNC
allows for you to do?
NX and VNC are different. When you start a NX session you get a brand
new session (or reactivate a suspended one). With VNC, you connect to an
existing XServer. NX currently cannot share a session. NX protocol is
based on X, which is unix-like specific. VNC has it's own protocol and
has been implemented for about any existing platform.
You may hack the init script on the terminal to integrate the nxclient.
Or perhaps someone has already done it.
I usually use both X (normal ltsp configuration) and NX on lstp server.
This way people with Windows/MacOsX laptop can connect to the ltsp
server either from local network or from home.
My guess would also be that if this is the case are there FreeNX client
software similar to VNC as well?
There are NX client available for windows/MacOsX/Linux from the
nomachine.com site.
Cheers,
Denis
Thanks,
Lonnie
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-28-02 at 12:52 -0500, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
>
>
>>Now I am confused in that I am not sure why a person would need FreeNX
>>when LTSP is a very similar item?
>>
>>
>
>They're actually not. LTSP will boot a thin client: FreeNX won't.
>Think of NX as a super-duper-crazy-fast upgrade to VNC. They're not
>exactly the same, but the overall concept is.
>
>
>
>>Also, when would you use them together?
>>
>>
>
>1. LTSP over a WAN. Boot locally, but work globally (TM). :)
>2. Session saving. Can't do that with plain old XDMCP.
>
>There are many more reasons, but that's it from me. I hope that helps
>some.
>
>Regards,
>
>Ranbir
>
>
>
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