Jon,

I am not sure if this would work for you but take a look at 
http://www.thinstation.org/

Grant

Jon Williams wrote:
> I work for an organization that has 250 Windows XP fat clients spread
> out across 36 locations.  I'd certainly love to get rid of those.  But
> I'd like some recommendations on what's doable. Our users don't need
> much...just access to an Office Suite and a few web sites.  We are
> making a radical change to our main application and most of our users
> will now access that through point of care devices such as tablets.
>
> Here are my thoughts so far:
>
> 1) Deploy a LTSP server to each office.  I've experimented with LTSP
> and have a good working proof of concept.  While it's great to get rid
> of support 250 workstations I really don't want to support 36 LTSP
> servers.  Not to mention the authentication headache.
> 2) Deploy a LTSP clustered server: https://www.ltsp-cluster.org/.
> Could I have thin clients connect back to a LTSP cluster in a hosting
> facility over a MPLS network?  I'm pretty reluctant to even attempt
> something like this.
> 3) Deploy thin clients that have a NX client stored on them.  This is
> really what I'd like to do.  I'd like to put very simple thin clients
> out in the field that have just a configured NX client stored on them.
>  Can anybody recommend something like this?
>
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