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What are some recommended thin clients with multiple monitor support?

We have two Windows 2008 terminal servers and would like to switch our users over to thin clients to connect to these servers. Each user has at least two monitors and a few even have three monitors. We would need to be able to connect to the terminal servers from the thin clients and extend the remote desktop session across all connected monitors (like Winodws 7 does). What are some recommended thin clients that will support multiple monitors in this way? Would I need any other hardware or software if I were to switch to these thin clients?

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Carl Webster

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Thanks for the listing. As an alternative, I was looking into a linux LiveCD called "Thinstation." I have a PXE boot server, so I can boot this image over the network. However, it doesn't appear to support multiple monitors or spanning. Is there something similar to Thinstation that will work with multiple monitors and spanning RDP sessions?

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Sorry, i have no idea of anything other than a full PC or a thin client.

vivigatt

Supporting Multiple monitors require the appropriate support with the remote protocol in use.
For instance, not all version of RDP protocol support this feature.
Recent versions of Windows-based RDP client do support multiple monitirs.
With Linux-basd end-points (thin-clients), it also depends on the implementation of the protocol. For instance rdesktop client may have to be configured for using multiple monitors.

Now, to be frank, the best support if connecting to Windows remote desktops, is usually achieved with Windows-based thin clients (WES07 or WES09 for instance)

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So as far as you know, there isn't a PXE bootable thin client image that would have multiple monitor support?

vivigatt

Well, PXE is totally independent for the OS it loads.
I don't know any existing PXE "pre-cooked" image that can do what you want. Any Windows based environment (XPe/WES09/WES07, not CE) should work.
HP and Wyse have flashless thin-clients that are then supposed to be operated with PXE.

I never hear about any PXE "pre cooked" thin-client image but that would be a great thing to have if it exists.

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Does WES09 need to be installed on each computer's hard drive, or is it possible to PXE boot from a pre-installed image (comparable to a "LiveCD" for Linux)?

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Do you know of any guides I can use to create my own?

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Does the remote desktop client in Windows Embedded Standard 2009 support multiple monitors like the Windows 7 remote desktop client does?