RE: OT Open source Windows terminal server?
Hi Franki
Which is the bit that is presenting a problem?
1) Running quickbooks and office on the linux server?
2) Serving that across the network?
If its 1), then have you had a go at wine? I'm using to run
Office 2000 and office XP (sorry don't have quicken). Admittedly
I cheated and paid $$ and used the Codeweathers cross over Office version,
but it works and I seem to remember seeing mention of quicken.
I don't know if wine out of the debian feed will or won't work, but it may
be worth a try.
Once that's going, LSTP or VNC etc should provide 2)?
Glenn
-----Original Message-----
From: Franki [mailto:franki@htmlfixit.com]
Sent: Monday, 28 February 2005 9:59 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: OT Open source Windows terminal server?
Hi guys,
Just a quick question for the guru's here...
I've been installing Linux servers (usually Debian or Mandrake at
present) into small biz as file servers/DHCP/MTA etc for some time now,
but I've recently had a request I'm not sure I can help with.
The client has a big investment in Quickbooks, and quickbooks integrats
into MSoffice, so they need to continue with both of those.. however
they want to swap to a terminal services layout because Quickbooks was
never really designed for network use (unlike something like SQL-ledger)
and when there are dozens of people using it over the network
(client/server), it gets really slow.
I have some small experiance with LTSP, but that isn't going to help
much in this regards.
What I'd like to do is find a GPL alternative to buying Windows terminal
server (They already have a Windows 2003 file server and run an NT
domain style network, (don't look at me, I didn't set it up.)) Is there
any GPL software that can perform the tasks required on a Windows
server? I would then install and setup rdesktop on the clients and run
Linux on all of them.
That way they could get the benefit of Windows terminal server, without
the huge cost to them,, and I can swap all their desktops to light
weight dumb terminals. And they can keep using Office and Quickbooks.
Does anyone have any ideas if what I am proposing is even possible?
In short, what I am asking is, Is there some GPL clone of Windows
terminal services that will run on a windoze server, that can allow
Windows apps to be run over the internal network from Linux based dumb
terminals?
rgds
Franki
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