Hi Gene, Thanks for the reply. 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. The only problem that I have is the DVD / CD ROM issue. The thinclient will load DVD's, but not CD's. I also thought it was the DVD /CD ROM units, but this happens on all three shuttle 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. I'm going to investigate the units themselves. I will put in a CDROM only unit and see what happens! Gene Cooper wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > I suspect that the problem is the media, the drives or the combination. > > Optical drives (and FDDs) are the first things to fail in computer. Add > to that the fact that media incompatibilities are quite common. > > When we re-task older PCs as terminals, which we try not to do more > often than necessary, we commonly unplug the power cables from the > floppy drives, hard drives and the optical drives because they are all > probably bad (or unnecessary) anyway. > > Just an opinion, > > G > > >> I am trying to develop a system of thinclients running rdesktop to a >> W2k8r2 server. Everything is working except for an issue that I am >> trying to address. >> >> The thinclients are old shuttle computers. Each of them has a DVD/CD >> combination unit. The users need to mount both DVDs and CD's. >> >> I have configured the thinclient desktops with these settings: >> >> -Volumes >> Mount automatically Yes >> Open file manager No >> Run Photo management command No >> Show local devices Yes >> >> What these settings allow the user to see is when they open "My >> computer" at the bottom of the drive listing they can see "media on >> xxx" where xxx is the thinclient name. They can just click on the >> device and it works. >> >> USB sticks are mounted fine. DVDs mount fine. However, when I stick in >> a CDROM, it doesn't see it. >> >> Is there a setting I need to make in order for the thinclient to mount >> CDROM's? The CDROMs will be music CDs as well as data CDs. >> > > -- 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
