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Hi all,

We’ve been working in a hybrid setup for the past couple of years now. We’ve given our artists the flexibility to work from home or from the office as much as they’d like. But we do both. What we’ve found as we’ve been looking to move to HP Anyware, is that this doesn’t work the way it used to. It seems like the way it works now is that it starts an X session on a virtual monitor when you connect. This means that if you were to walk up to that same machine the next day (locally) and try to use it, you would have to go through a bit of a process to get yourself back in to a graphics environment.

So… my question is… has anybody else found themselves in this predicament? If so, what are you doing about it?

Many thanks & fist bumps in advance,
Naveen

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Our CTO built a slack app that’s great. In a certain channel we can enter something like /appname setmon machine-name gdm/pcoip. I can set it to gdm from my phone while on on the train headed to the office.

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The only thing I have to do is type “startx” when I’m local. Then login. The rest is free. Right?

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In theory… yes… but this feels like the kind of thing that could go wrong during that switch over or a restart and then simply not work. I could be wrong about that, and maybe that works flawlessly… call me old fashioned, but if after a reboot my screen is blank I don’t feel like anything works.

What we were planning on doing before any of this showed up, was to put NUC boxes on the desk and then work “remote-from-local” so the local experience would be the same as the remote one. Maybe this will accelerate this process since it would eliminate the blank-screen-of-doubt.

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anyone knows a way of how to get the HP people to sell you a license? Trial licenses? Ive been filling out their contact us forms but thay are ghosting me apparently..

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$300 per year per machine. These are for concurrent connections.

A few minutes later, you’ll get two emails one of which has your registration code.

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When ya get the code…

## Install EPEL Release and enable CRB
## CRB (CodeReady Builder) is required for many EPEL packages

sudo dnf install -y epel-release && \
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled cr


## Install PCoIP HP Anywhere for Rocky 9
curl -1sLf https://dl.anyware.hp.com/DQc5UQL6NpoGOd0u/pcoip-agent/cfg/setup/bash.rpm.sh | \
  sudo distro=el codename=9 bash && \
sudo dnf install -y \
  pcoip-agent-graphics \
  usb-vhci
  

pcoip-register-host --registration-code=<INSERT REGISTRATION CODE HERE> && /
sudo reboot
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per machine = per host box? so i can have infinite clients where does this link come from wtf, it just says contact sales everywhere i looked, tahts mad :smiley:

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We use a floating license server. Let’s say you have 5 licenses. You install the agent on 20 workstations. You install the client on 10,000 thin machines. You can have 5 people connect to any 5 workstation at once from any thin machine.

And the link Randy provided is actually a personalized link that you get from Teradici once you create an account.

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Create an account.

Sign in.

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View and Purchase in the bottom right.

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Then go here. Subscriptions.

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Then click on Purchase under HP Anyware.

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And the click on pay by credit card HP Anyware Plus.

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I wish it would let me..

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Tried this before with my account and all but it just always sends me to sales people that never respond . literally just dont want to sell this to me , maybe its a country thing?

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aaand it doesnt work anyhow because test machine doesnt have a quadro/grid GPU , i keep forgetting that that is a thing….

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We struggled with getting contact from HP, our IT guy finally got a licence via a third party right at the end of the year. @finnjaeger lmk if their details would be useful.

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Yes you need to make sure to use the supported GPU as they list on their web site to avoid challenges.

Also, make sure not to have a server with Dual GPU since it is not supported! We had a case lately and HP Anyware team infromed us about the limitation that will get documented in the Linux Admin guide.

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@Slabrie - once upon a time the heterogeneity of installations and environments would be a fascinating challenge for an engineering team like those at HP.

Talking about it seems like the bleatings of a stroke victim recalling halcyon days that never existed.

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Naah, now the engineering teams cook up ideas about how to make printers more devilish.