Hi Bernd, Sorry for the delay in my reply. I only work part time as a network administrator. I'm not using vmware, but rather rdesktop.
I setup a W2Kr2 server which acts as a terminal server as well as the open thinclient server. DHCP is being served by another computer on the same subnet. The thinclients are old shuttle computers. There are no hard drives attached, just the DVD/CDROM units. When I boot the thinclients, they grab an IP address from the DHCP server and PXE boots from the thinclient server. Everything is fast. Then the thinclient boots rdesktop launches full screen and connects them to the Windows terminal server, where they are presented with the windows login screen. Everything works great! Kudos to all the devs! The only problem that I have is the DVD / CD ROM issue. The thinclient will load DVD's, but not CD's. I thought it was the DVD /CD ROM units, but this happens on all three thinclients. DVD's and USB sticks load and mount fine. However, it doesn't load and mount CD's. For example, music CD's will not load. Bernd Aufrecht wrote: > Hi, > > sorry that i could not reply any sooner. It seems that vmware 2.0.2 is > working > fine with PXE. At least it is with my test environment here. > > I would be helpful if you can give me a detailed description of your > test environment > and answer the following questions: > > - On which operation system runs the openthinclient server? > - Is the openthinclient server also in a vmware virtual machine? > - If yes, is it on the same host as the vmware client? > - what are the network settings for the vmware machines (bridge, nat) > - Which dhcp server do you use, is it on the same host or your router? > > Also if you need to attach logfiles you can email me directly if there > are to big > for the list. > > Best Regards, > > Bernd > > -- > openthinclient gmbh, Hirschstraße 29, 70173 Stuttgart > Amtsgericht Stuttgart: HRB 245 177; USt-ID: DE216017092 > Geschäftsführer: Alexander Stecher, Martin Kreiner > http://openthinclient.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org > openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user > -- Bruce Satow Programmer / Analyst Space Sciences Laboratory University of California Berkeley, California 94720-7450 (510) 643-2348 AST:7731^29u18e3 If you are doing things right, everybody thinks you are not doing anything at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ The Open Source Thin Client Solution http://openthinclient.org openthinclient-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openthinclient-user
