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Windows Terminal Server Replacement?

Posted by Cliff on from the small-clients-and-big-iron dept.

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?"

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  1. I think the product you're looking for by Alternate+Interior · · Score: 4, Informative

    Is called X11. The existance of X11 for 'nix has meant this is not a neccessary product on that platform. Worst case would be to set up Cygwin/X on the clients, and tunnel the connections through SSH (which is perhaps the most complicated way possible to say "put a '-x' on the ssh command"). Put a 'gnome-session &' or the KDE equivelent in their startup script, and you're set. Lots of times on these sorts of questions, people will say "that's not neccessary, just do ____". But in this case, the Windows terminal servers are themselves a way of simulating X11. Short of an X11 server for Windows (like Cygwin) needing installed, everything's already there.

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    1. Re:I think the product you're looking for by JediTrainer · · Score: 5, Informative

      NoMachine NX can do that. There's even a free NX server out there (I'm using it now - it's in the Gentoo portage tree even).

      NX compresses the X protocol and works some magic so it's usable over even slow links (9600bps even, apparantly). NoMachine has a free client available for download.

      It can save your desktop too.

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  2. nx/free nx by mrolig · · Score: 5, Informative

    look at nx/freenx, it works pretty well and is even cross platform. KDE has some kind of integration/support.

    http://www.nomachine.com/

  3. Re:You just want an RDP Client, right? by thing12 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Although reading it again it seems it wants an RDP Server. Like this one: xrdp