yea, that's my current problem, we arn't a company with deep pockets, yet
we have these windows apps that we can't live without.. (supplier
provided, no souce, crappy VB/access stuff) and we need them avaliable
all over the place for part info lookup.
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
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"Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 jrsmit2 at uswest.com wrote:
>
> I run two metaframe servers, one using citrix winframe, and one using
> windows terminal server.
>
> They work, but they take GOBS of admin time. You must remember there's
> nothing about Windows NT's design that enables it to be a real multi-user
> environment. I'd consider either product a tremendous hack, and most every
> application has a seriously hard time dealing the the concept (gasp!) of
> multiple users using the same applicationat the same time. So you have to
> wrap everything in registry hacking scripts in order to make it work, set up
> your profiles seperatrely, etc, etc.
>
> That wouldn't be SO bad, if Microsoft wanted their Windows Terminal Server
> product to exist, but they don't. So they charge you an arm and a leg for
> it, plus Citrix ain't cheap, and any non ICA (Citrix's terminal protocol)
> prouct is even more.
>
> I don't recommend it unless you're at a company with deep pockets.
>
> Jer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Kochie [mailto:ben at nerp.net]
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 11:48 AM
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: [TCLUG:19737] hello?
>
>
> list seemed kidna dead today.. figured i'd start something off..
>
> citrix metaframe to provide windows apps to linux
> networks.. good? bad? anyone besides chewie used it before? :)
>
> Thank You,
> Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
>
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> "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
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