Re: freeNX as application server?

I have been using FreeNX on Fedora Core 4 for about Six months. I have been
doing a lot at how and at work with using it as a application server. In
Free NX client from Nomachine you can configure it to just launch one
applications. Which is great if say you want to launch just a single
applications. I use it for Eclipse the PHP Ide I use. And Open Office.
I will discraibe how I use it bellow.

Configuration.
1 Windows Box
1 Linux Server with FreeNX

I configure my nx client so it launches Open Office or something I want from
my start menu. When I click on the icon it logs me into my Linux box and
launches that one application. It acts and feels almost like a native Window
application. I don't have to install the software onto my windows box and
half the time I cant because I am not that great with compiling applications
for Windows.

One of the great things with this is that if you have a mix environment
Windows and Linux you can set it up and let the Windows people get a feel
for some of the Open Source software with out having to install the Libs and
such on there Windows box. That's what I like about it. Give them a taste
with out all the work.

If you are interested in more information fire me off a e-mail. I plan on
writing a How-to on this and making up some screen mocks.

Luke

On 6/19/06, Bob at Estiminc <bob@estimations.com> wrote:
>
> I just recently discovered and installed a freeNX server[1] and NX
> client[2]-- very cool! I got to wondering about the possibility of using
> it
> (maybe with nomachine's Web Companion[3]?) as the foundation for an
> application server.
> Lets say, for example, that I have a complex financial analysis tool
> developed in an OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet, that I would like to allow
> selected others to use. But I don't want them to have access to anything
> elseon the server.
>
> How hard would it be to set up user accounts with extremely limited access
> --like to a single OpenOffice Calc spreadsheet, for example? And to have
> the
> spreadsheet open automatically when they login?
>
> Bob Crosby
>
> --- Links ---
> 1 http://freenx.berlios.de/
> 2 http://nomachine.com/
> 3 http://www.nomachine.com/news_read.php?idnews=173
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Received on Mon Jun 19 16:11:08 2006