From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 21:36:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7D2D37B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:36:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20102.mail.yahoo.com (web20102.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C61043E4A for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020822043645.98286.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.65.83.144] by web20102.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:36:45 PDT Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:36:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: need some advice on a freebsd solution To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have a client who needs to run a relatively simple DOS application that will host a service to his clients. someone came in and quoted him about $6000 for a citrix solution running on a Win2k Server platform. i figured i could do it much cheaper w/o all the overhead and headache with a FreeBSD box. 1.) a simple dos application needs to be accessed 2.) the user will only have access to this application when they connect, and the session will terminate when the user terminates the application 3.) the connection needs to be secure. i was thinking of using a DOS emulator... but i don't know what else to do. i'm assuming i'll need either a thin-net setup... but what free tools are out there that will work well with FreeBSD. however, if it's possible, i'm not impartial to running this appliacation over a https connection either. intially i was looking at VNC, but it seems that VNC will not allow for independant multiple user sessions. i also need the trafic to be encrypted. vnc will do this, but it requires two freebsd boxes to encrypt/de-encrypt over a public connection. my client will not want to require his client to setup a FreeBSD box on their network, which will alter the existing network structure. any recommendations on the best way to set something up? as always, any thoughts, suggestions and any other sort of help is greatly appreciated. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message