Metaframe?????

[Beno]

Hey there everyone,

we use metaframe at work....the systems admin guy explained to me what it was but not very well.

correct me if I am wrong but is it a piece of software to simulate a user being in the actual server room of a company playing around with the computers as if he/she were there???

Is that how it works

thanks people

Beno :-))

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[Ghost_Hacker]

Citrix MetaFrame is an add-on to a Windows NT/2000 Terminal server. In a nutshell Metaframe allows Non-windows (unix,macintosh,dos) and Windows clients to access and run the Window's "desktop" from a Server using the server's resources instead of the clients.

Here's a explanation from MSND:

"Windows NT Terminal Server Edition (and other multi-users Windows systems from companies such as Citrix) allow a single server to host multiple login sessions from other personal computers, Windows terminals or even non-Windows environments. By keeping the execution of applications and the Windows session itself on a single powerful server, customers can implement easy-to-administer “thin client” strategies for their client systems.
The multi-user Windows systems provide a separate Windows session for each login. Conceptually, this is similar to a traditional multi-user UNIX system hosting multiple X Window terminal sessions. However, the underlying technology is very different from the model used by UNIX.
On TSE and multi-user Windows systems from Citrix and others, the Windows NT kernel is substantially modified to allow each session to create a complete virtual machine execution space for each new session. This means the entire Win32®-based subsystem gets “cloned” for each new session and a dedicated section of memory and other resources are reserved for each new session. Each user runs their session in a protected virtual machine on the server and has access to their own virtual memory and devices.
While the virtual machine concept is technically viable, there are issues with resource consumption. Since each user needs their own virtual memory space, typically a minimum of 20-40 megabytes of RAM is required for each session that is hosted on the server. If the user is running large memory intensive applications, even more can be required.
The result is that most large installations of TSE run with what has come to be known as “server farms.” Companies install multiple systems with TSE and load-balance users across the multiple networked servers. As more users join the network, additional servers can be added to take up the load.
The obvious disadvantage is the tremendous cost in system resources."

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