I realize this is probably all documented somewhere, but I'm having a hard time narrowing down my search results, so I thought I would try tapping the wisdom and experience of the list for some guidance.
I have a bunch of HP 'thin clients' for which HP supplies a customized debian distro. One installs this on the client's flash drive, which then boots the tc directly into a Windows Remote Desktop session. We've been using this for a while, and while it mostly works, we've had some issues. Rather than try to work around the idiosyncracies of HP's software bundle, we're looking at alternative methods of reaching our goal of somehow booting the machine and having it automatically connect to a windows terminal server through rdesktop, vino, or whatever. We could install a linux distro on the 512MB flash drive, which is what we're doing now with HP's distro, or go straight to PXE booting. Being somewhat familiar with ltsp in a pure linux environment, and having spent hours imaging dozens of these thin clients (whose write speed averages something like 200 KB/s), I'm partial to the PXE boot option. Is this something that ltsp is suited for? dhcp on our network is handled by Windows Server 2008. We have a CentOS 5.3 machine on the network that we could use for this (with the outside possibility of changing distros, if necessary). I'm not looking for a step-by-step, but something like 'yes, we do this', 'here's a link to a how-to', 'here's a quick overview', or 'no, not recommended' would be helpful. Thanks, db ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
