On 9/29/05, Federico Sevilla III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:31:24AM -0700, Nel Rebuldela wrote: > > As I have said before, it's for experimental purposes only since I am > > new to the program and I want to explore some possibilities. Besides, > > I also have some old boxes here (233MHz) that I want to use and since > > this was originally a Windows-based cafe, I never had the chance to > > use them due to large memory requirements of Windows-based programs.
Well, that's cool. :) Thought you were using your fat clients e. It defeats the purpose of "thin" client setups. ;) > You may want to experiment with setting up all your fat workstations to > be XDMCP servers -- you do this by configuring the desktop manager [XDM, > KDM, GDM, et al] to respond to XDMCP requests. You can then configure > each old computer to have one other workstation to serve as its server. > This way, you don't centralize the processing and network loads, and yet > you can significantly increase the number of seats you can accomodate. In effect, you'll be doubling the number of workstations, if you can have a fat- and thin-client pairing. -- Ian Dexter R. Marquez http://iandexter.co.nr [PGP key: 0x02D17A07] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
