Hi Kaya, Only 4 employees? I think you'd be better off using something like this,
NC300 Multiuser (1-to-3) PCI Based LAN Workstation Terminal Kit (Support Windows/Linux) http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.29039 (4 simultaneous users) or a few of these if you need more than 10-metres away, http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.28695 ( http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.28895 if they really need USB at the desktop ) Regards, Antony. _______________________________ Antony Healey Senior Systems Administrator (UNIX) Information Technology Services University of Western Sydney. T: 02 9678 7014 F: 02 9678 7111 M: 0410 564 632 E: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kaya Saman Sent: Tuesday, 2 February 2010 9:41 AM To: SunRay-Users mailing list Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Working with MS Windows??? Thanks for the response John, Basically the company is small consisting of only 4 employees! Currently they have 2 separate USB printers, 1 dot matrix, 1 multi-function. On top of that they use computers which are ancient with max having 512MB RAM and 1.6GHz Celeron CPU's. They have no means for backup and their accounting machine is not even connected to the web! This is kinda what I'm dealing with...... it's a very old and defunct system which needs revitalizing with minimum or no cost. Meaning that I can rent them Rays no problem as I'm building a data center next door to them and can link them into the data center network without compromising security at all as will be using machine based firewalls and many ACL's in Cisco switches. Erm, yeah that's about what I'm trying to achieve :-) So I reckon the Vbox setup will do instead of MS Server or an RDP based setup; weighing in cost, performance, usage, etc.. Regards, Kaya On 02/02/10 00:27, John Francis wrote: > On 2 February 2010 07:53, Kaya Saman<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 02/01/10 22:26, Carl Holzhauer wrote: >> >>> If you need multiple users, you do not want to use XP; you will need >>> Server 03/08 (preferably 08 r2) >>> >>> > There is a hack that will allow multiple concurrent sessions on XP Pro > SP2 and SP3. > > http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/06/13/enable-multiple-concurrent-remo te-desktop-connections-or-sessions-in-windows-xp/ > > Read your Windows EULA and figure out the licensing issues for > yourself. A certain accounting package is known to run orders of > magnitude faster in multi-user mode when all the users are on the same > machine and file access is local. > > >>> >>> >>> >> Thanks for the response, but which way is the best to go for when setting >> this up: separate machine, VBox, or something like VMware or Sun Xvm? >> >> I know this all is dependent on what one's needs are but am after a 'best >> practice' if there is such a thing here?? >> >> > How many users and virtual machines are we talking about here? For a > small setup, VirtualBox is small, fast and easy. > > >> Also I can connect up local printers to Rays too can't I? >> >> > Yes, but IMHO network enabled printers are cheap enough and are much > more flexible. > > > _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
