How To: setup an ubuntu virtual server for thin clients to use rdesktop into windows

[seahorse]

Hi there

I appreciate that this topic has become a little stale since 2012, however I wondered whether you'd moved on at all since then and made any progress or improvements taking into account later versions of Ubuntu and LTSP?

 

I'm working on a similar project trying to give some old Thin Clients a new lease of life as the hardware currently doesn't connect to a Broker based RDP system.

Hoping PXE'ing in this manner will negate the need for the original firmware currently lacking the capability.

 

Thank you for sharing your progress.

 

Seahorse

[dhicks]

I appreciate that this topic has become a little stale since 2012, however I wondered whether you'd moved on at all since then and made any progress or improvements taking into account later versions of Ubuntu and LTSP?

 

We've moved to web-based clients, converting older machines to use ChromeOS using CloudReady, which despite being installable on older standard-PC hardware still makes a ChromeOS device that can be managed via the GSuite control panel, so you can set up a device to load a web page in kiosk mode. For web-based remote access we use AccessNow, although if I understand correctly newer versions of Windows Server do web-based remote access themselves now.