How to setup a Terminal Server on Linux EL5

JOHN MATHEW · External Since: Jul 06, 2007 Posts: 5

Hello

Can anyone please tell me whiich software is used for setting up
Terminal Server on linux enterprise version 5.
Also please guide me to some notes for the setting up and
configuration of terminal server and terminal clients on linux
platform.

Thanks A Lot
Melbin Mathew

Jean-David Beyer · External Since: Jul 02, 2006 Posts: 444

JOHN MATHEW wrote:
> Hello
>
> Can anyone please tell me whiich software is used for setting up
> Terminal Server on linux enterprise version 5.
> Also please guide me to some notes for the setting up and
> configuration of terminal server and terminal clients on linux
> platform.
>
What's a terminal server?

Do people still run terminals? Or computers? If they run computers, they can
login to your system with SSH if you give them accounts and passwords.

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Vilmos Soti · External Since: May 03, 2005 Posts: 140

Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8.RemoveThis@verizon.net> writes:

> JOHN MATHEW wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Can anyone please tell me whiich software is used for setting up
>> Terminal Server on linux enterprise version 5.
>> Also please guide me to some notes for the setting up and
>> configuration of terminal server and terminal clients on linux
>> platform.
>>
> What's a terminal server?

I think the OP thinks about the "Linux Terminal Server Project".

> Do people still run terminals? Or computers?

What happens, if you connect two sets of monitor/mouse/keyboard and
run two indepented X sessions for two people? Is it a quasy terminal?

Vilmos

John Hasler · External Since: Mar 25, 2004 Posts: 1319

JOHN MATHEW wrote:
> Can anyone please tell me whiich software is used for setting up Terminal
> Server on linux enterprise version 5. Also please guide me to some notes
> for the setting up and configuration of terminal server and terminal
> clients on linux platform.

Jean-David Beyer writes:
> What's a terminal server?

He probably means the Linux Terminal Server Project:
<http://www.ltsp.org/>.
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The Ghost In The Machine · External Since: Aug 04, 2005 Posts: 3878

In comp.os.linux.setup, Jean-David Beyer
<jeandavid8.DeleteThis@verizon.net>
wrote
on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:46:38 GMT
<iy4si.1617$vW.322@trnddc08>:
> JOHN MATHEW wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> Can anyone please tell me whiich software is used for setting up
>> Terminal Server on linux enterprise version 5.
>> Also please guide me to some notes for the setting up and
>> configuration of terminal server and terminal clients on linux
>> platform.
>>
> What's a terminal server?

I'll admit to wondering, but a Google on "Linux Terminal Server"
coughed up -- what else? -- the Linux Terminal Server Project,
http://www.ltsp.org/ . The general idea apparently involves
one or more diskless nodes, a main server, and of course a network.

http://ltsp.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ltsp/docs/ltsp-4.1-en.html

goes into some details as to how it works and how to set
it up. I'll admit it looks intriguing to me, though have
no idea how well it might meet your needs -- or whether
RedHat supports some variant thereof. (Gentoo has an
emerge -- net-misc/ltsp -- for it; that usually suggests
it's pretty widespread.)

>
> Do people still run terminals? Or computers? If they run computers,
> they can login to your system with SSH if you give them accounts
> and passwords.
>

There's a fair number of issues here, not the least of which is whether
one is expecting a GUI or not.

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Jean-David Beyer · External Since: Jul 02, 2006 Posts: 444

The Ghost In The Machine wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.setup, Jean-David Beyer
> <jeandavid8.RemoveThis@verizon.net>
> wrote
> on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:46:38 GMT
> <iy4si.1617$vW.322@trnddc08>:
>> JOHN MATHEW wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Can anyone please tell me whiich software is used for setting up
>>> Terminal Server on linux enterprise version 5.
>>> Also please guide me to some notes for the setting up and
>>> configuration of terminal server and terminal clients on linux
>>> platform.
>>>
>> What's a terminal server?
>
> I'll admit to wondering, but a Google on "Linux Terminal Server"
> coughed up -- what else? -- the Linux Terminal Server Project,
> http://www.ltsp.org/ . The general idea apparently involves
> one or more diskless nodes, a main server, and of course a network.
>
> http://ltsp.mirrors.tds.net/pub/ltsp/docs/ltsp-4.1-en.html
>
> goes into some details as to how it works and how to set
> it up. I'll admit it looks intriguing to me, though have
> no idea how well it might meet your needs -- or whether
> RedHat supports some variant thereof. (Gentoo has an
> emerge -- net-misc/ltsp -- for it; that usually suggests
> it's pretty widespread.)

It appears Red Hat do not distribute it with RHEL5 (which I have).

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