Re: RHEL4 as Terminal Server?

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 01:15 +1300, Gavin Young wrote:
> I would like to provide some of our windows clients with a terminal
> server type login to our RHELv4 Server. What are my options?
> 
> There are plenty of clients included in RHEL4 for connecting *to*
> Windows Terminal Services but I can't find much relevant info for the
> other way around, i.e. Windows clients to Linux Terminal Services.
> 
> We would like to run it over the net so the more secure the better.
> 
> Any thoughts, recommendations, pointers would be much appreciated.

there are two basic options that I know of

* VNC
  + simple windows client install, can also do windows<->windows 
  - bit of a bandwidth user since it uses bitmaps to transport the  
    screen, which makes it sometimes sluggish depending on the network

* XDMCP
  - requires an X server installed on windows (they exist, they're just
more complex than vnc)
  + generally a bit smoother feeling due to the way the network is used

linux can do both (and there are very good howtos for both as well), the
tradeoff seems to be windows side installation complexity vs during-use
performance.