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Windows Terminal Server Replacement?
Evanrude asks: "In my never ending quest to eliminate the Windows operating system from my life, I have yet to find a Linux replacement for the Windows Terminal Server product/service. I have come across the Linux Terminal Server Project but from everything I have read about it, you must boot a diskless workstation to use it, there is no client to connect to it from say a remote workstation [read: internet or remote VPN client]. There is also the Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server for Unix, but I am really looking for something that will run on Linux. I have also googled for anything related to Linux and the Remote Desktop Protocol, but have not had good luck. Has anyone had any experience with replacing a Windows Terminal Server with something Linux based or know of any other projects that might be more on track with this than the LTSP?"
"In my never ending quest to eliminate the Windows operating system from my life" - Maybe you should try the never ending quest to provide the best available setup. Seriously I love OSS and Linux just as much as the next guy, but people like you only make things harder for everyone else. Is OSS ALWAYS the best choice, the cheapest, the most user friendly? No. Some times it is, some times it isn't. The point of the matter is it sounds like you've been looking for "the best" solution and you can't accept it's on a Windows OS.
So IMHO, stick with MS Terminal Services - it's the best thing out there right now. However secretly I hope you install something else, screw it up and lose your job.
You are exactly right. I want all the functionality of having multiple users connect to a non-windows server in a multi-user environment to run a GUI Java Application (Or whatever else). All the clients are remote, running Windows, so a Linux client with X+SSH would not work either.
~.Evanrude