David, FreeNX would be a great solution for your ltsp remote access issues. It will give the user access to all of the local services as well. It is secure and very easy to set up. You may have to go to a little trouble on the client end to enable local printing for the user who is telecommuting. I have not had any issues with that though.
As far as your second hurdle is concerned Wine is a good option for some programs. If this is a program that only a few people use and not many use at the same time you could always run one windows machine and set up vnc for it internally. I have a program here at the office that most everyone uses but maybe only once -twice a week and that is how I get around that problem, it does not work with wine. There are others that can fill in more on this than me as well but ltsp also connects to windows, but that is all I really know on that front. Grant David Berg wrote: > My church is planning to install a thin client solution and I would > like to pitch LTSP as a solution but I see two sticking points. > > 1. We would like to enable staff to access their desktops from home > over an Internet connection. I expect this is possible, but don't see > any documentation indicating how to set it up. > > 2. There is at least one software package that needs to be run that > isn't a typical office program. I still need to find out more about > it, but if it turns out there is only the windows version, what are my > options for running it? Wine, a Windows Terminal Server dedicated to > this software package, others? > > Thanks for your help. > > --Dave > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _____________________________________________________________________ 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
