Penny,
There's probably a couple things going on here.
On the XP box you have to go into the BIOS setup and enable PXE booting,
then change the boot order to boot from the NIC first.
Then make sure you don't have a firewall running on the box where the
openthinclient server is running, or at least be sure you open the
necessary ports to allow clients to communicate with it. I found that the
documentation on the OTC site to be lacking on this subject, as there are
additional ports required beyond what is listed there that may be unique
for each installation.
Be sure to read as much of the documentation that's available in the OTC
site as you can. It's not 100% thorough but it will take you a good portion
of the way there.
Greg
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:29 AM, pennywest <
pennyw...@woolmerhill.surrey.sch.uk> wrote:
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to get started with this. I am
> at a loss!****
>
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> I’ve managed to get openthinclient manager onto the server. I’ve managed
> to ‘see’ the pxe clients and converted them into thin clients, but now
> don’t know how to boot up the thin client to the server. ****
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> One client didn’t have an OS on it but it just hangs on the boot up and
> the other had Windows XP on and just boots normally. How to I get it to
> boot to the Openthinclient?****
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> All the above sounds like I am a complete newby and have no idea what I am
> doing, and you would be right! Please help!****
>
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> I need a tutorial at a very basic level to get me started with this.****
>
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> Many thanks****
>
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> PWest****
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