RDP for old PC's

[lukehem]

We have a load of old computers in school (Year 1 and reception).

 

Year 1 and reception have generic usernames and passwords which the teachers log onto the computers with in a morning.

 

The old computers where getting really crappy and wouldnt run much on them so i created a script to remote them into an RDP server with high spec. Check it out (Note that i removed the computers from the domain first).

 

When the computer boots up it will automatically boot into the RDP server.

 

InternalRDP.zip

 

Let me know what you all think??

 

If you want to know exactly what the script changes ask me

Edited October 29, 2014 by lukehem

[pooley]

What spec pc's are you running as terminals? I have some v old Intel imacs (bootcamped) that I have just decommissioned and this has me thinking of using them as research pc's in our library.

[lukehem]

The Terminal Clients are intel Atom N270 / 1.6 GHz - RAM 1 GB PC's (ASUS Eee Top ET1602).

 

I don't see why that shouldn't work in the library. Although if you want staff/pupils to login on them you will have to disable the save credentials button in the registry (if a pupil or a member of staff ticks this box it will auto login as that user every time).

 

Let me know if you want the registry key to disable this. Then each time the PC boots you will basically have a remote desktop login screen asking for credentials. If a user closes this dialog box it will just keep opening.

[Chris_]

The Terminal Clients are intel Atom N270 / 1.6 GHz - RAM 1 GB PC's (ASUS Eee Top ET1602).

 

I don't see why that shouldn't work in the library. Although if you want staff/pupils to login on them you will have to disable the save credentials button in the registry (if a pupil or a member of staff ticks this box it will auto login as that user every time).

 

Let me know if you want the registry key to disable this. Then each time the PC boots you will basically have a remote desktop login screen asking for credentials. If a user closes this dialog box it will just keep opening.

 

I'd be interested to know what registry key needs changing to remove the save credentials button. I set up some old PCs running Windows ThinPC that connected to our RDS servers, but people kept ticking the box..

[lukehem]

I'd be interested to know what registry key needs changing to remove the save credentials button. I set up some old PCs running Windows ThinPC that connected to our RDS servers, but people kept ticking the box..

 

KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services\

 

DWORD

DisablePasswordSaving set it to 1

 

Then give the PC a reboot it will remove the tick box.

[lukehem]

I have made a slight change to the bat file so it removes the rdp.rdp file from the script directory after it has copied it to c:\rdp

 

 

InternalRDP.zip

[lukehem]

Here is 6 of our PC's remoting into an RDP server.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBqHNxyYSW4

[cpjitservices]

I did this, in a suite of 50 odd machines, the OS was Linux, Fedora to be precise which auto-logged into a shell and executed XRDP into an MS RDP Server.

[TechSupp]

Interesting, what spec of server do you need to run something like that?...and best question...difficult to set up?

[cpjitservices]

I had an 8 core custom built server, 16GB RAM running Server 2008 R2 with RDP Services.

[TechSupp]

Hmmm nice, beats our current server!