[arch-general] Arch Linux PC as a Remote Desktop Node

[cyelae]

On 2018-07-27 19:07, Foxtrot Mike via arch-general wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently we have around 10 employees who develop software using Visual
> Studio. The idea is to install the development tools on the Windows
> Server system, and to have all the developers connect to the server 
> over
> RDP using low-end low-power computers. The server is pretty beefy
> though. The low end client PCs will save up-front cost as well as power
> bills. The network backend will not have any issue with the increased
> RDP traffic.

I'm not sure about the auth part given my little experience with it, but 
if you're going to log into a server via RDP, can't you simply have your 
lightweight machine automatically open a default session [1], connect to 
the windows server, and authenticate users there?

If you're going to only have one app running on the client machines, you 
don't need a window manager; xinit do that [2] [3]

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#Autostart_X_at_login
[2] 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#Starting_applications_without_a_window_manager
[3] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=107319