[X2Go-Dev] x2go and thinstation

[Stefan Baur]

Am 08.06.2016 um 18:27 schrieb Tjabring van Egten:
> Dear Michael, Mike, Mihai and Oleksandr,

*ahem* There are quite a few more subscribers to this list than just
these four. ;-)

> I'm turning directly to you with a question about X2Go. I'm senior sysadmin at the Dutch Refugee Council in The Netherland. We provide an all open source environment for our almost 15000 users, mostly volunteers.
> We have around 2500 thin clients who are contacting our around 100 FreeNX servers. FreeNX is end of live and definitely inferior to X2Go. Our team as core sysadmins  like to switch to X2Go.
> However we are phasing a challenge we are not able to sove: How to incorparate the x2go client in our setup.
> We have around 250 small PFsense boxes providing DHCP and TFTP PXE boot on location. They serve the thin clients a Thinstation image ( http://thinstation.github.io/thinstation/)
> However, X2go is not included and trying to add it is also not simple.
> 
> Is there a way you could help us with this? If so, please contact me and we workout the details.

First, my $0.02:
I've been tinkering with Thinstation since 2005 or so (with a Citrix
client, not X2Go) and never got it to work right.  I'm surprised it
works/worked for you.  I never unsubscribed from the Thinstation mailing
list, but only see a message there about once a year, so my gut feeling
was that project is as dead as FreeNX (where mail volume on the list is
similar).

Now, for the actual problem at hand:
Most likely nobody ever bothered to integrate X2GoClient into
Thinstation because X2Go ships its own thinclient image (in two flavors,
actually - both having their own advantages and disadvantages).

Do you currently use Thinstation to deploy single applications via
FreeNX, or are you deploying a full remote desktop?

If you need access to other software, either by using other remote
desktop protocols (Citrix, RDP, ...) or by having that software
installed locally on the thinclient (web browser), things might become a
little more complicated and we'd have to check if you need a custom
built image or can work with our standard one, swapping thinstation out
for it and maybe moving some software from the thinclient to the X2Go
servers.

As always with such large setups as yours, we strongly recommend getting
a support contract from one of the companies offering commercial support
for X2Go (which can be found here:
http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:professional-support), which leads us
to ...

<shameless plug>
X2Go also has a commercial side, where various companies - including
my own - offer support contracts with guaranteed response times as
well as consultancy and paid-for development work if someone wants to
see a bug fixed or a new feature added in a certain time frame.

What makes my company special is, IMHO:
1) I'm the current X2Go Project/Community Coordinator, so the
   development lead and the developers tend to listen to me.
2) As far as I know, we are the only company providing X2Go support
   that isn't a one-man-show.
3) We sub-contract other developers from the X2Go community on demand,
   so you only have one person you need to talk to - me - and you will
   only receive one invoice, even if the task involved several freelance
   or part-time X2Go developers.

Our hourly rate for consultancy work and fixing issues outside of a
support contract is 110 EUR.
With a support contract, you get guaranteed response times (starting at
400 EUR/month for 24h response time during business hours in the
CET/CEST time zone from Monday to Friday, German holidays excluded)
and lower hourly rates if you buy a certain amount of hours in advance.
</shameless plug>

Kind Regards,
Stefan Baur

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