Knowledge gap: Manual agent selection versus automatic load balanced assignment

[aaron]

Thanks for the feedback @NyleFL, we always appreciate the end-user perspective.

What you’re describing can be achieved in ThinLinc, by setting up two clusters, each with its own master server. The user then selects whether they want a load-balanced or “dedicated” session by which cluster they connect to.

The latest version of the ThinLinc client (4.20.0, just released at time of writing) includes a new feature to help with this; it will remember previously entered server names and provide these as suggestions to the user. So managing multiple clusters in this way just got a bit easier.

Another option is to create separate client configuration files for each cluster, and use these to launch the ThinLinc client. This process is described in more detail here:

How to conveniently switch between different user profiles

Different user profiles for the ThinLinc client can be useful when regularly connecting to multiple different ThinLinc servers, e.g. to save the hostname of the server, swap between different authentication methods or use different levels of security restrictions. This guide shows two ways to create such user profiles. ThinLinc handles user profiles through files called tlclient-files, which in this text will be referred to as user profile files. In short, these files are configuration files th…