> > I'd like to get more information about using SunRays with a Windows > backend. The approach I'm interested in would use Solaris 9, > SRSS3.0, and Windows 2003 Server on the backend to provide Windows > apps like Office, etc. I would like to use rDesktop to connect > instead of Citrix. I have the following issues/concerns/questions: > > 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? > > 2. Is there any way to publish a single app instead of the whole > Windows environment? Can Windows Terminal Services handle this? or > rDesktop? > Tarantella is coming out (sometime this year) with a native linux client for their TSE that will allow for "seamless" windows. Plus Tarantella's price is so much better than Citrix. This will allow you to have load balancing at a reasonable price.
> 3. Is there an alternative to rDesktop and Citrix that may work? Tarantella's future release... > > 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? I am deploying a full windows desktop over my Sun Ray. This allows me to replace our aging computers with Sun Rays while waiting for Tarantella's future release. Some user's are bold enough to ctrl+alt+enter and use the JDS desktop but some apps (like Novell's Groupwise Linux Client) doesn't fully work yet. Novell says their new client (that you must pay to upgrade to) will be fully functional... Until then the lack of a spell check alone keeps users from wanting to use it. _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
