[plug] Citrix + MedicalDirector + Ferret on Linux

[Senectus .]

On 31/07/06, Gavin Chester <sales at ecosolutions.com.au> wrote:
> 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.

Leon has done some Thin Client stuff that I've seen first hand.. it
was pretty darn good to (even if it was Mandrake ;-) )

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