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List:       suse-linux-uk-schools
Subject:    Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] X based Windows app. server
From:       "Mark Evans" <mpe () st-peters-high ! devon ! sch ! uk>
Date:       2002-03-18 10:05:18
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> Hi,
> 
> With an X server running on a Win32 machine, it's possible to run X
> applications (e.g. on Linux) and have them sent over the network to appear
> on the Win32 machine.

Fensystems had a Windows machine running in this way at Bett.

> However, has anybody tried the other way around -- having Windows
> applications appearing on a Linux desktop, the Windows applications all
> being run through a specific Windows (NT) based application server?

Either way you get the hassle of multiple logins.

Easier IMHO to use Win4Lin (possibly alternativly 
VMware, but Win4Lin using regular files and not
disk images makes some things a lot easier) to
provide the support for Windows apps.

Not only does this avoid separate logins but
also means that Windows isn't being asked to
cope with multiple user handing. Something
which IME it does poorly.

My only problem was failing to spec sufficent
RAM to handle a class of 30 machines.

-- 
Mark Evans
St. Peter's CofE High School
Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109
Fax: +44 1392 204763


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