Saturday, October 6, 2018

I'm baack...  and what an exciting time.

I have loaded the latest ubuntu and the latest mint, and boy is there big news for the multi user functionality

Previously to get multi user rdp sessions with GUI desktops there were a lot of hoops to jump through.

Now you just load the xrdp and xorgxrdp packages, No big script to run, no recompiling, and you have a multi user gui linux box

Just create your other user accounts and passwords, and voila... you can just log in via rdp and use your own linux gui desktop on the server. 


Wine 3.0 is the default wine for the new distros, and it runs avimark, even avimark 2018 just dandy. 

Set your share on the linux box straight from the file browser in mint or ubuntu for the avimark directory there to share but not allow guests.

All the file sharing seems to work without special edits of the smb.conf now. 

I have experimented and run concurrant wine and windows sessions against the same avimark database with no apparent ill effect.

so I am going to continue to play with this, but most of the hard stuff from before is now more or less automatic.  Whats not to like?