Re: [Ltsp-discuss] thin vs fat for RDP clients

2012-09-04 Thread David Burgess
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Also, NFS is fairly resilient to handling some types of disconnects- it will > just block filesystem access until the connection becomes available again. So > that might be a short-term way to explore resolving your issues. It is slower >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] thin vs fat for RDP clients

2012-09-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:58:44AM -0600, David Burgess wrote: > Please correct me if I'm wrong: both thin and fat clients load a basic > Linux OS from the tftp server. From there, thin clients normally > connect to a remote desktop, while fat clients continue to load the > whole OS, desktop and al

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] thin vs fat for RDP clients

2012-08-31 Thread Jay Goldberg
You address a problem that I had been considering for a long time regarding thin client disconnects. I haven't been using LTSP for a few months, but as I recall, the thin clients are actually very resilient to disconnects. I ran an experiment where I unplugged Ethernet at the client for 2 minutes,

[Ltsp-discuss] thin vs fat for RDP clients

2012-08-31 Thread David Burgess
We have roughly 100 diskless thin clients here running LTSP, all for RDP. This morning I had a thought, so I'm hoping some discussion here might help to enlighten us on where this might lead me. Please correct me if I'm wrong: both thin and fat clients load a basic Linux OS from the tftp server. F