Works great. We liked the idea so much, we built a business around it. :)
Kidding aside, using LTSP to serve up Windows is easy and mostly painless. Any help you may need tweaking things you can usually get from a good wiki (like Ubuntu's LTSP wiki) or in irc at #ltsp. -Gadi PS: Personally, I know very little about CentOS and prefer Ubuntu/debian and I would say most of the folks in #ltsp these days have similar inclinations, so if you plan to get most of your help from #ltsp, you may want to start on Ubuntu/debian (though the principles are still the same in CentOS). On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 11:39 -0600, David Burgess wrote: > 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 -- -------------------------------------------------------- Gideon Romm | Proud LTSP Developer [email protected] Support LTSP! Buy your hardware at: www.DisklessWorkstations.com www.DisklessThinClients.com (use coupon code: LTSP5P for 5% off thin clients from DisklessThinClients.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
