[ale] Seeking opinions on Terminal Server setup

Jerry Yu jjj863 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 10:10:07 EDT 2011


At work a few years back, we had a setup to do pretty much that. If I recall
correctly, the pxeboot server was configured to present a boot menu to thin
stations. Nothing is persisted on the thin stations.

   - The linux menu option is to really to have a miniature X environment to
   launch xdm or gdm against a linux server.
   - The windows menu option is to have a miniature X environment to launch
   rdp client to allow connection to the Windows servers.


On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Vernard Martin <vernard at venger.net> wrote:

> On 9/23/2011 10:55 AM, Byron Jeff wrote:
> > I've finally decided to make the move to a LTSP/Thinstation style thin
> > client setup and looking for some previous setup experiences. I have a
> need
> > for 2 or 3 workstations at the house and I've just gotten tired of
> managing
> > multiple machines. My hope is to collapse everything into a single server
> > and use these Wyse 941 GXL thin clients:
> I actually have a similar situation. I have a lab that hosts graduate
> student without assigned desks. Each student might need a windows OR a
> Linux environment to work so they need to be able to logon to either. I
> want a Thin client setuip that lets them choose what they want to do and
> then connects them to a centralized resource. When they log out, it
> resets for the next person. This gets rid of Dual Boot machines and
> running virtual machines on every local machine.
>
> I figure someone must have done this before.
>
> V
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