Wyse (Dell) D50D, running embedded Suse Linux, which seems to be a
special compressed minimal image based on that distro. I have 56 of them
in my lab. After trying for a year to find out if/how I could build my
own X2go package, I finally talked to a tech who said it wouldn't be
possible and they were in the process of rolling out a new Linux image
across their product line. That's the one who also told me it was
ordinary x86 hardware and there wasn't any reason I couldn't roll my own.
Wyse used to have a pretty nice forum and wiki with user-contributed
documentation, and I seem to recall finding info on building custom
packages for the platform there. That all eventually disappeared when
Dell acquired the company and I apparently didn't save anything I had
gathered previously. That's why I'm building my own platform now.
Seth
On 03/01/2017 11:42 AM, brian town wrote:
What thinclients are you using if you don't mind my asking
On Mar 1, 2017 12:31 PM, "Seth Galitzer" <sg...@ksu.edu
<mailto: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
<http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:howto:tce>>, or
<http://x2go.baur-itcs.de/x2go-tce-stable/
<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
<http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:success-stories:start#success_stories>>).
-Stefan Baur
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