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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:40:16 -0700 (MST)
From:      FreeBSD user <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>
To:        Totally Jayyness <Jayyness@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Desktop in a Highly M$ Environment
Message-ID:  <20011220103535.U60544-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
In-Reply-To: <000e01c18978$f30b00f0$0300a8c0@jayyness.com>

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On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Totally Jayyness wrote:

> At work, we have lots of M$ Servers that are running either Citrix or
> Terminal Services and so we can manage them from the command center without
> actually having to go out to each and every server to check up on it and do
> maintenance on them.
>
> I am building a FreeBSD Desktop computer for the first time.  Was curious if
> there are FreeBSD Desktop clients for citrix and/or Terminal Services.

There's a citrix_ica client (linux binary) in the ports that will work for
FreeBSD with linux binary compatibility on. And there's also rdesktop
which should do the same, also available in the ports tree.

> We also have lots of files and documents on network shares....  Is there a
> comperable 'File Explorer' that I can install and I suppose I will need to
> install Star Office for all those M$ Office Documents I will need to access.

Use smbfs to mount those shares (you need to compile a kernel to support
it, see LINT, and userland utils -- also in the ports tree), then you can
use any GUI file manager to browse those mounts (Konquerer or mc).
StarOffice/OpenOffice would do for Office docs. I personally am waiting
eagerly for 6.0 to be released.


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