[Sunhelp] Thin client for Solaris 7 Systems

[Raju Gogula]

Hi Bob,

Thank you very much for your inputs and all others who provided me relevant
information. I have installed VNC. The advantage with this is I could access
NT desktop from Solaris and Solaris xterm sessions from NT systems. But it
is potentially slow. Citrix (www.citrix.com) seems to be offering thin
client solution which offers a better latency and bandwidth utilization.
Unfortunately there is no facility for a downloadable eval copy. And it is
pretty expensive.

I will be evaluating eXceed, ReflectionsX, GoGlobal and MiX before making an
engineering compromisebetween price & performance.

With best regards,
Raju



-----Original Message-----
From: Robert.Cross at scottish-newcastle.co.uk
[mailto:Robert.Cross at scottish-newcastle.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 2:15 PM
To: Raju.Gogula at aristagtc.stph.net
Cc: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Thin client for Solaris 7 Systems


>We need to access solaris7 system remotely via 64k link. Is there any
>software which will work as a thin client and help us receive the CDE
>desktop? we should be able to run GUI apps with better bandwidth
utilization
>from our local NT or Unix desktop.

Unix desktops aren't a problem since you can just use standard X.

NT is more problematic, as I see it you've got three options, (other than
zapping the NT and replacing it with something waayyy better - e.g.
RedHat or Solaris! ;-) ) . . . .

1. Conventional (thick) X-client. As long as it supports Broadway
(LBX) you should be okay. WRQ's ReflectionsX looks pretty good and
fast.

2. Thin client. Various available, I've used GoGlobal from GraphOn
and it was pretty neat - and VERY fast to start or to use for telnet
sessions.
Benchmark performance was a bit poor though. http://www.graphon.com/

3. Low cost stuff. It's just gotta be VNC
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
although performance with this ain't good, but it's still mega clever. Best 
advice is
download and install, then give it a spin - after all it's free. Or at a
pinch
you could try MiX which is a low cost (US$25 I believe per seat) 'proper' 
X-server 
which you can eval at http://www.microimages.com/mix/  (this *used* to be
free 
- grr!)

Opinions expressed herein are my own - please no flame wars!

Bob Cross.


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