ThinStation - multiple boot images

[localzuk]

It has come time for me to move our 2k3 terminal server farm over to 2k8.

 

This is fine with our HP t5735 thin clients, as I just need to update the image to ThinPro and set them up with the new RDP client (ie. rdesktop 1.6 rather than Citrix ICA).

 

However, we have a bunch of machines which use ThinStation.

 

Because this is going to be a progressive changeover, I want to run the 2 systems side by side, but due to it being served via PXE/TFTPd, I am finding myself limited.

 

How do I get 2 thinstation images to be served? The old one using citrix and the new one using rdesktop?

 

As it stands, I seem to be forced to use a single image, and I cannot for the life of me get the thinstation.conf- files to be picked up.

 

Ideas?

[CyberNerd]

if your thinstation.hosts file looks like this

 

 TG0-2116	004063E635FC
TG0-2118	004063E63503
TG0-2119	004063E62E26
TG0-2120	004063E6353F

 

you can set individual config files for each machine:

 

thinstation.conf-TG0-2120

 

the thinstation.conf-* is just a copy of thinstation.conf with the different settings.

[localzuk]

if your thinstation.hosts file looks like this

 

 TG0-2116	004063E635FC
TG0-2118	004063E63503
TG0-2119	004063E62E26
TG0-2120	004063E6353F

 

you can set individual config files for each machine:

 

thinstation.conf-TG0-2120

 

the thinstation.conf-* is just a copy of thinstation.conf with the different settings.

 

I don't use a hosts file. I just have thinstation.conf- directly addressing the machine.

[CyberNerd]

I don't use a hosts file. I just have thinstation.conf- directly addressing the machine.

 

theoretically, that should work. but if not try the hosts file and then by machine name.