Re: W2K Terminal Services and Citrix

Post #20,224 by pwhysall 12/4/01 3:41:07 PM Reply	Re: W2K Terminal Services and Citrix Terminal Services, by itself, only gives you remote desktops. I'm not clear on how printing works - I think that you can only print to printers that are managed on the server. The added value that Metaframe brings is in these (undoubtedly incomplete) points: 1. You can remote just a single application window, and have it seamlessly integrate with the user's desktop. Naturally the application has to be aware that it's running remotely in this way. An example from personal experience is the Great Plains accounting system which... 2. ...obviously needs to print on the client's printers. Which Metaframe can do. This is a must for me, as the server is some 250 miles away and I'm not running ethernet cable that far for nobody :-) 3. You get a stack of management tools with Metaframe (as you're no doubt aware) that go quite a way beyond the "Disconnect this user" management of Terminal Services. You can do things like take control of a user's desktop, shadow them (i.e. observe them), load-balance across servers, that kind of thing. In short, if all you want to do is print to network printers and give users a remote desktop, then Terminal Services will do, albeit in a clunky manner (profiles in particular need careful management). Anything more than that, you're looking at Metaframe. Oh, and welcome to ZIWT :-) Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #20,272 by Peanut 12/4/01 8:24:17 PM Reply	Re: W2K Terminal Services and Citrix Thanks for the info. You gave precisely the reasons I was looking for but could not find anywhere. I appreciate the response and the welcome. I am new to network administration and posting to forums so thanks for being kind. Later on we can be rude and arrogant :) Jennifer
Post #20,312 by bbronson 12/5/01 9:45:34 AM Reply	You won't get very far in this forum with that attitude ;-) You have to be rude and arrogant from the get go!! Welcome aboard. Brian Bronson
Post #20,316 by bepatient 12/5/01 10:42:01 AM Reply	Sounds like you were expecting... ...us to pick on you for allowing MS solutions to exist...let alone actually wanting to figure out how (or if) they work ;-) We're not that bad, mostly. The rude and arrogant stuff usually happens in the Topical forums anyway. Stay down here in tech land and you'll be safe ;-) Welcome to the Pleasuredome! You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #20,386 by Peanut 12/5/01 5:40:46 PM Reply	I can tell this my kind of place thanks all Jennifer
Post #20,397 by inthane-chan 12/5/01 6:41:23 PM Reply	If you don't mind me asking... ...how did you find us? Growing our membership at this point is an issue for us... "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Post #20,425 by tonytib 12/5/01 9:28:03 PM Reply	Yes, we could really use new blood
Post #21,181 by Peanut 12/12/01 1:52:53 PM Reply	A coworker posts here and says this is a great place I told him I would post here if he didn't laugh at my questions. Of course, he laughs at my questions :). wave He referred me because I am struggling with W2K server and said I would get reliable help here. (He probably wanted me to stop asking him.) Sorry it took so long to get back. I am here for good. Thanks for asking. Jennifer
Post #21,201 by pwhysall 12/12/01 3:23:46 PM Reply	Slap 'im one If he laughs again. And tell him it's from me :-) Peter Shill For Hire [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal]
Post #21,226 by Yendor 12/12/01 5:42:15 PM Reply	Bitch That is all. You are a silly, sorry, British bitch. But we all knew that already. -YendorMike "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by the skeptics or the cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
Post #21,228 by Peanut 12/12/01 5:48:37 PM Reply	Just ignore him, Peter I do and I like your attitude Jennifer
Post #21,229 by bepatient 12/12/01 6:06:50 PM Reply	Boys boys boys.. ...Can we have a little maturity? I mean...a woman shows up and you 2 just can't seem to act civilized. Besides...she like me best...so piss off! :-P You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #21,264 by Yendor 12/12/01 11:05:26 PM Reply	Aye, but.... ...she works with me. Besides, you're married. pthb -YendorMike "The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by the skeptics or the cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
Post #21,298 by bepatient 12/13/01 7:00:54 AM Reply	Pick pick pick You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #21,265 by wharris2 12/12/01 11:15:14 PM Reply	Woman? I am 5' 10" computerdude... um, OK this isn't "Desperate and dateless" online. Sorry. "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth

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