On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:05:25PM -0800, Jeff Meidinger wrote:
> 1. How is load balancing and resource management handled for the Windows 
> end? I know that SRSS handles load balancing for the sunray clients but 
> without Citrix, how is this handled from the Windows side? It seems to 
> me that the Windows server will also handle less users without some of 
> the Citrix resource management qualities, is there any way to handle 
> that with rDesktop or Terminal Services?

Terminal services are capable of load balancing. The problem is that
rdesktop does not reconnect to a server with a running users-session.
It gets balanced to one server, and stays there, even if a running
session from the user is on another server.

> 2. Is there any way to publish a single app instead of the whole Windows 
> environment? Can Windows Terminal Services handle this? or rDesktop?

Yes, you can either set the users shell on the windows-side to the
required application, or specify the appliction-binary on the
rdesktop command-line.

> 3. Is there an alternative to rDesktop and Citrix that may work?

I think there is the hob TS client Hoblink JWT: http://www.hob.de/
But it's java and I can't see any features which are not provided
by rdesktop.

> 4. Can anyone offer some gotchas that I should be looking out for when 
> it comes to this kind of implementation? Does it sounds like I've 
> understood the architecture properly?

Use the newest rdesktop-version (1.4.0), as this one will give better
error-reporting in the case something goes wrong and has other
nice features and bug-fixes.

> btw, I'd like the Windows the run on a Sun AMD box as well.

This should IMHO be no problem.

Regards,
  Michael
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