Wine as Windows Terminal Server?

[Segin]

Boaz Harrosh wrote:

> Samuel Hunt wrote:
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>> Thought for you all.....
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>> Would it be possible to use Wine with a few extra bits to make a kind 
>> of Windows Terminal Server?
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>> So you login via VNC, and the Wine system prompts you for a username 
>> and password, which it authenticates. It then loads up a "desktop", 
>> with a fake "Start" menu, that you have things similar to a normal 
>> start menu, but more appropriate to a terminal server environment.
>>
>> You then run your programs, but all the I/O is to/from the remote 
>> client, and each session is independent of each other, so there can 
>> be lots of different clients with different permissions (so admin may 
>> have full access to all of the drive, but users have various bits of 
>> their "hard drive" read-only and things like that).
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>> Would seem to make Wine very useful if that could be done. Then VNC 
>> clients simply see a "Windows" desktop, and can do what they want, 
>> but all the back-end is Wine and Linux.
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>> Sam
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> I have done something similar but with the X11 protocol.
> The client user browses to a web site (somewhere on the LAN). He than 
> gets a Menu of applications /Sessions he can use. If these clients are 
> Linux than no problem an ssh-X session is initiated to open that 
> application. ( We used a load balanced collection of servers). If it 
> was a Windows Client than first time comers get an OCX installed that 
> in turn installs XMing X-Server and plink. Once installed, the web 
> page will initiate the same ssh-X session as before. We chose remote 
> application to run as Native apps so there is no distinction between 
> locally running or remote applications. But a desktop mode can be used 
> as well.
>
> One thing to watch out is that: Currently, wine does not support 
> multiple X connections on the same WineServer. What I did is use the 
> ssh connection environment variables and set up a quick on-the-fly 
> wine $WINEPREFIX folder for each new session. This gave me a nice 
> Cytrix like control over what gets saved during a session. (Which was 
> nothing in our case)
>
> Remoting is nothing new to Linux, and VNC could work Just as well. 
> Wine is just a regular X-client application. Anything that applies to 
> a Linux application also applies to a Wine application running under 
> Wine.
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> Free Life
> Boaz
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Yeah, what he said, you can just set $DISPLAY and have Wine spawn up a 
couple of Windows programs after startup...

We could use Calmira for a Windows Explorer replacement, even though 
it's 16-bit. It has a 
taskbar/filemanager/win2000-like-taskmanager/startmenu, and it makes a 
486 feel more usable.