From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 19 14:51:43 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 6991C37B401 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20105.mail.yahoo.com (web20105.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E98343E65 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020819215135.42034.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.65.83.130] by web20105.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:51:35 PDT Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:51:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: 2 things that work well with FreeBSD- qualities:free, simple and stable - DOS emulator and Thin client software 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. i need two things. i need a simple and stable DOS emulator... and i need a simple and stable thin client setup. 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. is there anything that works well with FreeBSD that will allow for my client's clients to connect to a FreeBSD server over a secure connection to access a simple DOS application? 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