Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Telecommuting & Windows Programs with LTSP

2010-03-10 Thread Trey Hunsucker
nce! Trey -Original Message- From: David Berg [mailto:david.ryan.b...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:59 AM To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Telecommuting & Windows Programs with LTSP My church is planning to install a thin client soluti

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Telecommuting & Windows Programs with LTSP

2010-03-10 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
> 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 soft

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Telecommuting & Windows Programs with LTSP

2010-03-10 Thread P. Scott DeVos
I get around a similar problem (a legacy Windows programs needed) by running Windows in a VirtualBox OSE virtual machine. There were a few tricks I needed to do to make the virtual machine available to everyone (and it still only allows one user at a time, of course). If you choose this solution,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Telecommuting & Windows Programs with LTSP

2010-03-10 Thread grant
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 telecommuti

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Telecommuting & Windows Programs with LTSP

2010-03-10 Thread Appiah
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:59 PM, 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 expe

[Ltsp-discuss] Telecommuting & Windows Programs with LTSP

2010-03-10 Thread David Berg
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 indicati