On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Laine Stump wrote:

> I thought some of you might be interested to know that I just tried 
> installing the Citrix MetaFrame client for Linux on NetBSD/i386 1.5_ALPHA, 
> and it runs just fine. Installation gave only a few minor problems:
> 
	Excellent news!

> 1) The check for "Linux)" in the "setupwfc" script had to be changed to 
> "Linux|NetBSD)".
> 
> 2) the "hinst" script uses "/bin/true" and "/bin/false" instead of just 
> "true" and "false", which causes a failure of the script.
> 
> 3) "hinst" checks for netscape in /usr/local instead of /usr/pkg.
> 
> Now those of you who occasionally need to access a Windows application, but 
> don't want to have an entire machine dedicated to each person in such a 
> predicament, you can just run the MetaFrame/NT server on one machine, and 
> multiple people can open windows to that machine from their NetBSD / X 
> desktops. (almost as if that server was running a *real* OS! ;-)
> 
> Any interest in a package for this? If so, what category should it go in? 
> (I'm guessing "net", since that's where VNC is, and it does a similar 
> thing, but for one user at a time.)
> 
	Definitely - net sounds good. Could you feed the diffs back to
	Citrix, on principle :)

> (P.S. The MetFrame client can be freely downloaded, but the server costs money.)
> 
> 


                David/absolute
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