Re: [SLUG] Linux TS guru's

From: SpamFree (SpamFree@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 18:17:25 EDT


> Actually you gave me one of the better explanations as far as the
> difference between the MS Terminal Server world and the Linux Terminal
> Service/XServer world. This makes it much more clearer to me now and I
> think I might have found a possible solution that would work but I would
> like to know if anyone has tried this in their environment. I found a free
> XServer that is java based called WeirdX
> (http://www.jcraft.com/wiredx/index.html) and am curious as to anyone's
> experiences with this XServer so far? Does it perform well?
>
> Unfortunately I'm still kinda green on all this stuff although you think I
> would have caught on by now but for some reason it escapes me. Once I
> figure it out for myself I'll be better so for now I'm just reading a lot
> of stuff but any offers of advice are always greatly appreciated.
>
> I also know that I can use VNC but from my understanding you must spawn a
> VNC process and each VNCSession is given a port number. What we are trying
> to do in the lab is to redirect from a website to a full blown session that
> a user gets a desktop and everything. With VNC I would have to first spawn
> the process and then direct the browser to the particular port which I'm
> sure we can do with a script but I was looking for other options.
>
> Again, I thank you for a great response as well as all those that have
> assisted (one of the reasons I love LUG's :)
>
> Pace

Here's a few pictures of the VNC client running in browsers

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ns1.gif
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ie1.gif
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/iemacx.gif



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