On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 07:33:38AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Connolly Owen (IE) thought:
>> > -----Original Message-----
> > Behalf Of Conor Daly
> > Sent: 26 October 2006 07:29
> >
> > At work we are about to run a test of a remote access server.
> > The proposed GUI forwarding method is citrix based on its
> > low bandwidth consumption. However we will have full network
> > access from linux clients. X forwarding and VNC are
> > apparently much more bandwidth intensive. Are there any free
> > protocols out there that will let me access my work desktop
> > (FC5) with as low bandwidth consumption as citrix?
>> God forbid I should say this, but could you not run reflections/Xdesktop
> through windows and serve it over your Citrix pipe? There is also
> Citrix for Solaris available...
That's essentially the idea at the mo but using X-win32 as the X server.
However, I wanted to avoid using citrix at all if possible...
Conor
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