Topic: WYSE Winterm on SME7.x.x ?

[LeoM]

Hello there,

Searching the net brought me not much, only confusion.....

I have three WYSE WT1125SE "Winterm" boxes that I would like to "talk" to my local SME server.
And via the SME server on to the web.

Anyone having an idea where to start looking?
I heard something about Ubunto and then install the package xRDP (Remote Desktop Protocol).

Idea's where to start looking/experimenting?

Greetz,

Leo

[Stefano]

search here, in the wiki and with google for LTSP

HTH

[LeoM]

Hello Stefano, (and others).

Have been searching the web and this forum for possible solutions for my "problem" but couldn't find any.
Or is it just me looking in the wrong places?

Please help, I want to have my three WYSE "Winterm" boxes on line ASAP on the SME server.
The only thing they really have to do is connecting to the webpages on my own server or to the internet.

Ideas anyone??

Regards,

Leo

[Stefano]

Please help, I want to have my three WYSE "Winterm" boxes on line ASAP on the SME server.
The only thing they really have to do is connecting to the webpages on my own server or to the internet.

do they have any kind of O.S. onboard? if so, I can't see the problem, if not, you have to use something like LTSP

tertium non datur (it's latin )

[LeoM]

Hello Stefano,

They seem to have been made for a windows environment.

They all work well if I let them "talk" to a Windows XP machine as "remote desktop", with the RDP protocol.

Problem in that case is that only one at a time can log-in, and the second problem is that the XP machine is "locked" as long as the remote desktop is active.

They obviously have been made to work with a windows server.

Thanks for thinking with me.

Leo

[Stefano]

Leo

terminals need a "server" to work.. if you can make boot them from ethernet, you can use LTSP to boot ubuntu or another linux distro and then you can use them to connect to internet..

I've done some testing with 2 virtual machines:
- a SME one for users, dhcp service, file/mail/ssh services
- a ubuntu one (9.04) installed with "create a terminal server" option.. joined to SME

I was able to  boot from lan with a thin client, auth myself on SME, browse internet, read email (from SME, of course) with firefox/thunderbird

it's not trivial, but it's not impossible

I repeat, you have no other choices

[Stefano]

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