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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> I do sometimes wonder how the #1 server OS in the world somehow lacks |
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> decent facilities for graphical remote login, and for sharing files |
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> across the network. (For the latter NFS is a real pain to set up in a |
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> remotely secure fashion - part of the problem is that it is hard to |
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> use some kind of a UUID to drive file permissions, and kerberos/etc is |
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> a pain to set up. There is certainly nothing approaching the ease of |
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> just setting a password on a share or connecting to a windows domain |
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> (even a samba-driven one)). |
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I think Linux is only #1 in the area of web services. For this you |
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don't really need a graphical remote login. I think the main reason for |
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the windows terminal server is that windows couldn't be configured via |
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console login (SSH) in the same way as Linux could. |
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But of course it would be very nice to have a RDP like feature for |
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Linux with the same efficiency as RDP under Windows. This would really |
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expand the facilities of Linux as a desktop based server. |
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Sharing files can be done via SCP/SFTP. If a VPN connection is used, |
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then even NFS or FTP are possibilities. For all of these connections |
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you can also use graphical clients. |
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Just my two cents. I'm sure that you are already aware of this. |
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Regards |
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wabe |
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