i have a purchase three of these "thin clients"
http://www.icoptech.com/pr
i am not sure how to set up my environment for use as a thin client using server 2003. as soon as the device turns on i would like the remote desktop to show. what are the steps involved in enabling this for this particular thin client that i bought?
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Unfortunately I don't know pricing for any off the top of my head, but I can suggest a couple companies to check out:
http://www.wyse.com
http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/n
Keep your eyes open for RDP rather than ICA when looking at the protocols they support - RDP is what Terminal Server uses, ICA is Citrix and is a significant extra cost.
Dave Dietz
if these had a disk on chip i could use win xp embedded tools to put winxp embedded on them, then use that with terminal server. any ideas on what steps i should take to make that happen? i dont think that purchasing one with the os already on them is an option for me. i have platform builder already so buying on without an os and then building an deploying an os to it could work for me.
Disk on chip is basically a flash memory device with an IDE connector. You plug it into an IDE port and the system sees it as a hard drive.
If you purchase one, plug it into an available IDE port on a normal compouter and then load the appropriate files for XPe on it (haven't done much with this, would assume the embeded tools have some means of prepping a disk like this) you should then be able to drop it in the thin client device and be up and running.
Dave Dietz
i figured as much, but what confuses me is how to use remote desktop in such a way that its the only thing a user can interact with. here is the boot process i am looking for. when the device boots whatever os is installed is not accessable to the user, only the remote desktop provided by the terminal server. is this possible? i would be using winxp embedded for this. so i guess what i am looking for it a way to replace the default login screen that would log the user in locally on that machine with a remote login only allowing the user access to the remote desktop and never the local os on the machine being used.
Once you have XPe installed change the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWAR
to point to something like MSTSC.exe with appropriate parameters.
This will cause RDP to load as the user shell rather than explorer.
You can also set it to automatically log on a specific user by following the steps detailed at this link:
http://www.pctools.com/gui
Put these two things together and every time the device is started it will log on this user and fire up RDP client.
Dave Dietz
Thats actually a pretty great solution and allows almost out of the box connectivity on XPe clients... Only problem ive got now is how are you meant to shut it down once out of the TS session? apart from alt+ctrl+del, my users are too dumb to do that to shut it down everyday.... but I suppose theres no harm in just powering it off?
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by: Dave_DietzPosted on 2007-02-21 at 17:53:38ID: 18584129
These aren't exactly thing clients.
These are embedded boards in a chassis.
You will need to find an operating system that will run on the hardware, install the OS on a DOC (disk on chip) to act as the boot device and then you can configure them however you would like.
You should be able to run Windows CE.Net or a Linux flavor on it.
Beyond that you would have to configure a Remote Desktop Client of some sort to connect to your Terminal Server.
Dave Dietz