Re: Re:Thin client/terminal servers

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 2,  9:36am, Tony Gettig wrote:
> Subject: Re:Thin client/terminal servers
> The main application is Win32 and it needs to be run in order to access the
> database. I need to open a "session" with a terminal server, upon which the
> application actually executes. M$ has their own client software to connect
> to a terminal server, but recommends the ICA client from Citrix.
>


Will the application run on a NT 3.51 system?  If so than Winframe is a better
choice that Terminal Server as there are a lot less licensing issues, and they
can be used concurrently.

> I have Win95 clients in Battle Creek, and the application resides on the
> Novell server in Portage. The users in each office need to be working off
> the same data set (clarion database files), as a lot of the data is time
> and date sensitive. It needs to be real time. That's why we are thinking
> that running the application from Portage is the best solution. We're
> connected by ISDN. I was hoping there might be some way to use Linux
> instead, perhaps even in a gateway capacity.
>

Linux can be used as the bastion host of a VPN connection to the network over
the internet,  but I don't see that you need that with your setup.  It could of
course handle the ISDN lines,  but so could any modern router.  There are some
other MultiUser NT systems floating about that require Win32 clients,  but I
can't recall the names,  and other than little blurbs in InfoWorld I don't know
anything about them.

Don't AS/400's have an NT capability?