[plug] Citrix + MedicalDirector + Ferret on Linux

[Gavin Chester]

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 11:51 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> > We use remote printing services, eg one of our clinics is at Balgo
> > (~90k's West of the NT border, ~800k's south of Kununurrra), they
> > connect to their own terminal server which then VPN's via two way
> > satellite back to Broome's Ferret server, their printer is out there
> > but of course their session happens in Broome so the server has to
> > be able to send print requests from Balgo -> Broome back to Balgo...
> > we also use label printers in our pharmacy rooms, and as I
> > understand it label
> > printers and linux sometimes don't get along ?
> >
> > Any feedback is appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers
>
> Its a lot of work but there is :
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LTSPHowTo
> 

I would disagree.  I'm a great fan of LTSP and its offshoots (K12LTSP,
Skole, etc), but none are ideally suited to working across a WAN, even
with high speed networks.  Reason being that they rely on pushing X to
the clients while apps run on the server.  Some in that fraternity have
used TightVNC as a way of speeding things up, but they report it
'usable' rather than 'great'.  OTOH, since Kai's people are already
using VPNs it may be possible to look at the VNC option.  

There are many ways to crack the problem, most beyond my knowledge and
experience, so excuse my half-baked answer :-(  If you don't mind a
non-OSS alternative to Citrix, then Tarantella was devised for Linux as
a superior alternative to (more-or-less) serve the same function over
WANs as LTSP does over LANs.  Other than that, LTSP people often run a
Win2xxx server on the LTSP network solely to support users that have
windoze-only apps.  HTH.

Gavin