Re: [Fwd: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients]

2002-04-29 Thread Peter Lister
> >don't know if that will help for your setup though, as bandwidth > >seems to be the bottleneck > > Why not use VNC to the application server? Requires much less bandwidth > than X. It's very dependent on the application. What do you want to run? Also, complex interactive apps are more depen

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients

2002-04-26 Thread Charles Bowman
Dave, John, David, Alvin, Tarjei, Julius, Jerome and Adam: Our committee will do an IT audit and discuss this project in a couple weeks. I will look into your solutions in preparation for the meeting, and get back to LTSP-discuss. You have given me alot to chew on! Thanks! Charley ___

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients

2002-04-26 Thread Julius Szelagiewicz
As a matter of fact, such a cd is readily avaolable - you can download iso image from the www.thinknic.com and it will do all those nice things for you on any x86 computer. julius On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Tarjei Huse wrote: > Hi, > > Really LTSP doesn't fit this model very well. Maybe you should con

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients

2002-04-25 Thread Tarjei Huse
Hi, > Really LTSP doesn't fit this model very well. Maybe you should consider embedded > Linux for the remote systems using dialup. The application/X layer running on a > dialup is pretty painful. Consider the kernel must be downloaded and the root > volume mounted nfs as a minimum. Then all of th

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients

2002-04-25 Thread alvin
Charles Bowman wrote: > > Dave Shiels wrote: > > > > Charles Bowman wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am LTSP neubie (but run Debian (Libranet) on my home computer, and > > > have yet to connect another computer to my home 'server'). > > > > > > It's my understanding of the LTSP documentation

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients]

2002-04-25 Thread David Johnston
Charles Bowman wrote: > It's my understanding of the LTSP documentation that thin clients are in > the same building, and connected to the server by wires. I am wondering > if LTSP could be used to connect geographically dispersed thin clients > to a server. Most of the thin clients are within 10

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients

2002-04-25 Thread Dave Shiels
Charles Bowman wrote: > > Dave Shiels wrote: > >>Charles Bowman wrote: >> >> >>>Hello, >>> >>>I am LTSP neubie (but run Debian (Libranet) on my home computer, and >>>have yet to connect another computer to my home 'server'). >>> >>>It's my understanding of the LTSP documentation that thin clien

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients

2002-04-25 Thread Charles Bowman
John McCreesh wrote: > > As long as you've got decent bandwidth (10Mb Ethernet over wet string is fine). >However, remember that LTSP is designed to be run with trusted clients behind a >firewall, so don't be tempted to try and run it over the Internet... > > John John, Since all the clie

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients

2002-04-25 Thread Charles Bowman
Dave Shiels wrote: > > Charles Bowman wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am LTSP neubie (but run Debian (Libranet) on my home computer, and > > have yet to connect another computer to my home 'server'). > > > > It's my understanding of the LTSP documentation that thin clients are in > > the same bu

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients]

2002-04-25 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:15:47PM -0700, Dave Shiels wrote: > Charles Bowman wrote: > > It's my understanding of the LTSP documentation that thin clients are in > > the same building, and connected to the server by wires. I am wondering > > if LTSP could be used to connect geographically disperse

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients

2002-04-25 Thread John McCreesh
As long as you've got decent bandwidth (10Mb Ethernet over wet string is fine). However, remember that LTSP is designed to be run with trusted clients behind a firewall, so don't be tempted to try and run it over the Internet... John On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:41:51 -0400 Charles Bowman <[EMAIL PR

[Fwd: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients]

2002-04-25 Thread Dave Shiels
Charles Bowman wrote: > Hello, > > I am LTSP neubie (but run Debian (Libranet) on my home computer, and > have yet to connect another computer to my home 'server'). > > It's my understanding of the LTSP documentation that thin clients are in > the same building, and connected to the server

[Ltsp-discuss] Re: LTSP and Geographically Dispersed Thin Clients

2002-04-25 Thread Charles Bowman
Hello, I am LTSP neubie (but run Debian (Libranet) on my home computer, and have yet to connect another computer to my home 'server'). It's my understanding of the LTSP documentation that thin clients are in the same building, and connected to the server by wires. I am wondering if LTSP could b