[K12OSN] Looking for wisdom of the masses

[Edward Holcroft]

Bear in mind that the free version of the server only supports two 
concurrent users. But I have used it and concur it works great.

ed

Peter Scheie wrote:
> Use NX (aka NoMachine).  Clients (free as in beer) for Windows, Macs, 
> and Linux are available www.nomachine.org.  For the server, get the 
> FreeNX server (not sure if it's in the CentOS repos or not).  
> Instructions on setting it up available at 
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX.  It runs over port 22 (ssh) and 
> is encrypted.  Performance is great.
>
> Peter
>
> Alan Hodson wrote:
>> Salutations
>>
>> At a school where I just installed a new server (Centos5-64B AMD 
>> Dell) for 30 thin clients, teachers are wanting to log into the 
>> system from their own laptops. The district is behind a firewall and 
>> the server's eth1 has a static IP: 10.x.x.x - what is the easiest way 
>> of allowing them to log in as thin clients from areas away from the 
>> lab? VLans are not viable, and their laptops are running XP. I should 
>> be able to burn a cd with enough info/resources for them to log in, 
>> no? DSL?
>> All suggestions welcomed
>>
>> Alan Hodson
>> El Paso ISD, TX
>> -=o=-
>>
>> Alan A Hodson MEd.
>> oF: 915-887-6871
>> fX: 915-779-4100
>> aahodson at episd.org
>> http://links.episd.org/
>> http://tinyurl.com/3e4sh8
>>
>> Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
>> but by the moments that take our breath away
>> -=o=-
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> K12OSN mailing list
>> K12OSN at redhat.com
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
>> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> K12OSN mailing list
> K12OSN at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>