Brief recipe for tunneling one app between 2 XP peers?

I have been working on this for a couple days and still can't seem to get even a basic workable installation. I would like to tunnel one application from one very nice, new XP machine to one lowly XP machine using just Windows peer networking. For the moment, I'm not trying to run a full thin client.

For testing purposes, the nice new machine running the AppServer is not running any security software.

For starters, can someone confirm that all I need is 2x ApplicationServer-LoadBalancer running on the nice machine and the AppServer-LoadBalancer Client running on the lowly machine?

Which is to say, I don't need ThinClient Server running to provide Terminal Services, right? I mention that because AppServer logs the error "TS Agent localhost was disabled code 2." And Check Agent Status reports "Terminal Services: Not enabled." But I note that Information: Status reports "2x Terminal Server Agent Service: Running."

I feel like the closest I have gotten to making something work was to have the Client running and showing my published app. But trying to start it I get "Insufficient rights available to service your request."

Anyone have a recipe that outlines how to get basic functionality running?

I have plowed through the ApplicationServer manual, but perhaps I misunderstood something.

John Hupp
PRP Company

 

Hi John,

You skipped one important pre-requisite, the Server must be a Windows Server (eg. win 2000, win 2003, win 2008).

All you need is to install the application server on the server and the 2X Client on your old XP, you do not need to install the ThinClient Server for your setup.

Nixu

 

Thanks, Nixu. I plowed through the manual but blew past the plain statement of requirements. I understood that the ThinClient Server product works on non-server Windows XP, essentially supplying its own terminal services, and I assumed that the Application Server product did the same!