lack of windows server...
Not having a windows server is huge limitation. At most of the locations I service personnel need remote access directly into a windows desktop environment.
Open VPN on a Linux server and windows remote desktop work beautifully for this.
In all other situations, where a Linux machine needs to be accessed remotely, I'm doing the access and I don't need a desktop environment. ssh is perfect.
So I haven't done much more than play around with NX. It is fast, stable and very easy to set up the client on windows. I would use it in any circumstance where a customer needed remote access to a Linux machine. I haven't figured out how to get people into that kind of a position. For eg databases stored on a Linux server are accessed from a windows (only) based client, so their remote access must be to a windows client, accessing the database directly is of no use.
Running the database 'raw' over a remote connection (ssh or vpn) in order to run one of these client apps on a windows machine at home or on the road doesn't work. The dbs are very time sensitive, and there's a lot of data flowing back and forth between client and server. It's vastly less overhead to run the client on a machine in the office and only shovel desktop updates over the wire.
So as of yet I've not been able to deploy freeNX anywhere. Shame, because it is a great application.
