On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 10:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can anybody confirm if they are Thin or Fat clients? > > ie This Display has an IP of its own as opposed to having the server > IP > > Curious - James > > They are thin clients, they clearly just found a way of allocating > Virtual IPs > on the same network card to each ICA session. > > We currently run Citrix Metaframe 1.8 and are moving across to LTSP, > leaving > Citrix purely to publish the remaining Windows apps to our LTSP > desktops. On > Metaframe 1.8 all the clients do indeed have the same server IP > address. One > of the benefits our reseller was trying to sell to us for Metaframe 4+ > was the > ability to have virtual IPs for each client. We decided to go LTSP. > > We have always found the single IP address (on Citrix) an issue > because some > software makes the assumption that each IP is a different client. For > example > our core management system only allows each user (or rather IP > address) the > ability to log on four times, which means in theory only 4 users out > of 45 > can connect! Luckily the system is produced by our Citrix reseller, so > they > had to make it work for us. > > The other issue with a single IP is trying to track down Internet > abuse to a > particular user. On Citrix we get around that by requiring proxy > authentication.
The trouble with reading too fast about something you've no idea about is you usually get it all wrong. Sorry. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
