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Windows Server Forum / Windows 2000 / Terminal Services / March 2006Terminal Server Touch and feel
We are thinking to connect a remote office via terminal services to a Windows Server2003 box via VPN. I have no experience with this so my first question would be if the users would have a Windows XP-like experience or if there would be some training required in getting used to the environment. The second would be what client OS is recommended. My expectation would be that the client starts up the machine gets to a logon screen and initiates the terminal session without additional steps. I would hope that no full blown XP would be required. The third question would be that of citrix. I heard it brings great improvements. Is this an addon software to the server or a separate way of setting up the box? Thanks IT PHYTOSAN > We are thinking to connect a remote office via terminal services to a > Windows [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > IT PHYTOSAN All the elements of Windows XP are pressent except the flashy gui... Windows XP in a Win2K GUI. You can alter the GUI in that degree that for example the users see one icon on their desktop and that's it! Your posibilities ar countless.... No full blown XP is needed. Any old workstation that runs on a Windows that supports the "Remote Desktop" application will do. Hardware thin clients run on Windows XP embeded, Windows CE, Linux, ... Citrix is a separate way of setting up the box and a more expensive one. Thanks for your reply. I am assuming that terminal clients would have the "Luna" environment if configured on the server? Which of the client OS options would you recommend? Thanks IT PHYTOSAN > > We are thinking to connect a remote office via terminal services to a > > Windows [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Citrix is a separate way of setting up the box and a more expensive one. The Terminal Server clients I've seen running don't have the "luna" look. Maybe it's possible.... I don't know. I'm no expert at this, we're just starting to implement a thin client network ourself. I stil struggle with the question of the client OS myself.... If it's possible I would choose a linux box because the license is a lower cost... but I don't know the advantages of Windows CE/XP Emb. over Linux and the other way around. > Thanks for your reply. I am assuming that terminal clients would have the > "Luna" environment if configured on the server? [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] >> >> Citrix is a separate way of setting up the box and a more expensive one. Thanks for your note. There are many references on the internet to install the Luna Theme on a Windows Server 2003 environment, so I think this should not be an issue. It seems that you are a step ahead of me in the game. I'd much appreciate if you could post back with your conclusions and experiences. Thanks IT PHYTOSAN > The Terminal Server clients I've seen running don't have the "luna" look. > Maybe it's possible.... I don't know. [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > >> > >> Citrix is a separate way of setting up the box and a more expensive one. You'd need to enable the themes service to get the XP Desktop, but this is usually disabled, as it uses more resources and bandwidth than the classic desktop. Client OS is best chosen by needs of the users, i.e. CE and linux are fine for most uses, but if you require client-side software, you'd need XPe or a PC. AN example of this would be if you needed to use a USB or SCSI Scanner and a scanning program like Remote Scan. http://www.sessioncomputing.com/thin-clients.htm  SignaturePatrick Rouse Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server http://www.sessioncomputing.com > Thanks for your note. There are many references on the internet to install > the Luna Theme on a Windows Server 2003 environment, so I think this should [quoted text clipped - 63 lines] > > >> > > >> Citrix is a separate way of setting up the box and a more expensive one. This is excactly what I was looking for. Thanks for all the help. The site is very good. IT PHYTOSAN > You'd need to enable the themes service to get the XP Desktop, but this is > usually disabled, as it uses more resources and bandwidth than the classic [quoted text clipped - 72 lines] > > > >> > > > >> Citrix is a separate way of setting up the box and a more expensive one. |
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