What thinclients are you using if you don't mind my asking On Mar 1, 2017 12:31 PM, "Seth Galitzer" <sg...@ksu.edu> wrote:
> Long story short: In my thin client lab, we use an RDP client to connect > to Windows Remote Desktop Servers and have been using XDMCP to connect to > Linux X desktops. I want to use X2go for the superior performance, > reliability, and security over XDMCP, but am unable to do so due to > limitations by the thin client platform vendor. The hardware is apparently > ordinary x86 so I'm working on rolling my own minimal image to accomplish > this. > > With the current platform, we have desktop shortcuts that to run the > RDP/XDMCP clients to various hosts. I'd like to try and duplicate that with > my new image so I don't have to retrain my users. I'm scripting freerdp-x11 > for RDP connections (with NLA). After trying various ways to script > x2goclient, I finally discovered pyhoca-cli and it works exactly the way I > want it to. > > So that's why I hope it stays available in some form for a while. If > there's a better way to run x2goclient completely "headless" or transparent > to the user, I'd be happy to hear it. I've been searching through > documentation and haven't found a way yet to do it the way that I want. > > I already have my PXE server setup, but haven't decided yet if I'm going > to boot from a network image, or push the image down to the clients to > pre-load for booting. My minimal debian image with all necessary tools is > currently just over 2GB uncompressed. I'm not opposed to TCE, but I'd like > to be able to at least customize the skin with our own branding. > > I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on this. I'm relatively new to X2go, so > I'm sure there are ways to use it to help with this project I haven't > thought of yet. > > Thanks. > Seth > > On 02/28/2017 06:04 PM, Stefan Baur wrote: > >> Am 28.02.2017 um 21:24 schrieb Seth Galitzer: >> >>> I hope this doesn't mean the pure CLI client is being abandoned. I just >>> discovered it in getting a completely scripted solution for my thin >>> clients. I'd be happy to help test should you need help with that. >>> >> >> What exactly are you trying to achieve with the scripted PyHoca-CLI? >> There may be ways to achieve the same result using our new >> X2Go-ThinClientEditon (see >> <http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:howto:tce>, or >> <http://x2go.baur-itcs.de/x2go-tce-stable/> for builds you can start >> tinkering with), which uses the stock X2GoClient. >> >> Please let us know your use case, and we'll see what we can come up with. >> >> Also, as always, once you're happy with X2Go, please drop us a few lines >> we can publish on our "Success Stories" page >> (<http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:start#success_stories >> >). >> >> -Stefan Baur >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> x2go-user mailing list >> x2go-user@lists.x2go.org >> http://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user >> >> > -- > Seth Galitzer > Systems Coordinator > Computing and Information Sciences > Kansas State University > http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~sgsax > sg...@ksu.edu > 785-532-7790 > _______________________________________________ > x2go-user mailing list > x2go-user@lists.x2go.org > http://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user >
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