[Samba] windows terminal server

[Alexander Saers]

Sorry, i didnt make myself clear

I want people to be able to log in to a computer when they are out of
office. They usualy turn their computers of for power saving and it
would be nice to have a single computer that servs all the poeple that
are out of office. Winxp only allows one person to be loged on at a
time. So, is it possible to install windows terminal server as an
ordenary client or is there any hack that enabels several users to be
loged on remotly to an ordenary winxp client?

/Alexander

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 01:39, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Alexander Saers alex at saers.com wrote on Samba-Digest:
> 
> > Thu Apr 3 23:33:50 GMT 2003
> > 
> > 
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have a wounderfull linux/samba server running as pdc for a network.
> > Now to the thing. I would like to add remotedesktop capabilites so that
> > users outside could login to the system and get their desktop up from
> > home or another country..
> > 
> > Is there a way to acomplish this. Do i need a windows terminal server
> > and do i need to configure it so that it is a member of the domain or a
> > bdc,pdc??? Is there any hacks for winxp to enable remot login even if
> > the computer is in a domain?
> > 
> > Any idees/experience would be nice :)
> 
> You want to look at the new offer of NoMachine, the "NX" software:
> 
>     http://www.nomachine.com/
> 
> It implements a very easy-to-use interface to the remote X protocol as
> well as incorporating VNC/RFB and rdesktop/RDP into it, but at a speed
> performance much better than anything you may have ever seen in the form
> of native TightVNC or rdesktop or remote X.
> 
> Remote X is not new at all -- but what they did achieve successfully is
> a new way of compression and caching technologies which makes the thing
> fast enough to run even over slow modem/ISDN connections.
> 
> I could testdrive their (public) RedHat machine in Italy, over a loaded
> internet connection, with enabled thumbnail previews in KDE konqueror
> which popped up immediately on "mouse-over". From inside that (remote X)
> session I started a rdesktop session on another, a Windows XP machine.
> To test the performance, I played Pinball. I am proud to announce here
> that my score was 631750 points at first try -- I couldn't have achieve
> this over a bad performing "rdesktop embedded in remote X" connection.
> (Of course, I could also have connected directly to the Windows XP box
> using NX).
> 
> NX for me performs better in my local LAN than any of the other "pure"
> connection methods I am using from time to time: TightVNC, rdesktop or
> remote X. It is even faster than a direct crosslink connection between
> two nodes.
> 
> I even got sound playing from the remote X app to my local boxes, and
> had a working "copy'n'paste" from an NX  window (running a KDE session
> in Italy) to my Mozilla mailing agent... These guys are certainly doing
> something right!
> 
> I recommend to testdrive NX to anybody with a only a remote interest
> in remote computing
> 
>      http://www.nomachine.com/testdrive.php
> 
> Just download the free of charge client software (available for RedHat,
> SuSE, Debian and Windows) and be up and running within 5 minutes (they
> need to send you your account data, though, because you are assigned
> a real Unix account on their testdrive.nomachine.com box.....
> 
> I think they will be able to compete against Citrix and Microsoft with
> their RDP performance. I don't have figures, but deepest impressed I am
> about their X performance, which is really, really worth a try.
> 
> They plan to get to the point were you can have NX application servers
> running as a cluster of nodes,and users simply start an NX session locally,
> and can select applications to run transparently (apps may even run on
> another NX node, but pretend to be on the same as used for initial login,
> because it displays in the same window.... well, you also can run it
> fullscreen, and after a short time you forget that it is a remote session
> at all).
> 
> Now the best thing at the end: all the core compression and caching
> technologies are released under the GPL and available as source code
> to anybody who wants to build on it! These technolgies are working,
> albeit started from the commandline only (and very inconvenient to
> use in order to get a fully running remote X session up and running....)
> 
> To answer your questions:
> 
> * you don't need to install a terminal server; XP has RDP support built
>    in.
> 
> * NX is much cheaper than Citrix -- and comparable in performance,
>    probably faster
> 
> * You don't need to hack XP -- it just works
> 
> * You log into the XP box from remote transparently (and I think there
>    is no need to change anything to get a connection, even if
>    authentication is against a domain...)
> 
> * The NX core technologies are all Open Source and released under
>    the GPL -- you can today use a (very inconvenient) commandline
>    to use it at no cost, but you can buy a comfortable (proprietary)
>    NX GUI frontend for money
> 
> * NoMachine are encouraging and offering help to OSS/Free Software
>    implementations for such a frontend too, even if it means competition
>    to them (they have written to this effect even to the LTSP, KDE and
>    GNOME developer mailing lists)
> 
> > /Alexander 
> > 
> 
> Cheers,
> Kurt
-- 
Alexander Saers <alex at saers.com>