Small, Fast RDP Client? 40
Tazor asks: "I'm working for a small municipality in Denmark where most of our users are using our Windows terminal servers. Now we want to run a RDP client on our older PCs (133 mhz, 32 mb RAM, 2 gb disks). We figure that the best way to do this, is to use open source, and this is where I need your help. I'm trying to find a small Linux distro, running from either a floppy disk or from hard disk, that boots straight into a RDP client logon screen. It needs to be easy to customize (not much Open Source knowledge in our department) so that we can configure hostnames and set the distro to use Danish keyboard settings. We would also like it to be free. I found PilotLinux, but it runs from a Live-CD and is difficult to customize (for a PFY like me anyways). Hope that hardcore OSS geeks in here can help me."
rdesktop (Score:1)
Re:rdesktop (Score:2)
However, since it sounds like this person is setting up kiosk type machines, they won't need to run a window manager, etc.
You could just setup the
rdesktop -f theserver.ip.address
The -f is for fullscreen...
If this was setup right, you could even train the users to just do a ctrl-alt-backspace if they're session gets hung up
Re:rdesktop (Score:1)
Theres several versions right here [jacco2.dds.nl]
DamnSmallLinux? (Score:1)
You can install it to your hard-disk, too.
I, for instance, installed it onto a 200 MB hard-disk in my PentiumMMX. Runs really well.
DamnSmallLinux on a USB pendrive (Score:4, Interesting)
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb.html [damnsmalllinux.org]
Not only will it be useful for projects such as these, but will also help you fix friends computers (quickly check if it's a hardware or software-problem etc); and you can have a lot of "look, I erased Windows and installed Linux for you while you were away"-fun...
Here's what you do: (Score:4, Informative)
I just thought that up on the spot. You can do all of this with Slackware easily. DamnSmallLinux looks like it works too if you modify the OS image.
Re:Here's what you do: (Score:2)
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Yep. And there's only 62930 lines in 248 files in my
Netstation Linux (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Netstation Linux (Score:2, Informative)
All of them are related projects (I do not remember which one is the original and which are the derivatives).
They usuallay boot via Etherboot floppy, as are too large to fit into a floppy themselves. One of those (I do not remember which) can be installed on a Windows server, having any Linux station installed.
OTOH, when I investigated about this, I modified a LEAF-Dachstein Linux floppy router.
The result was a Linux self containe
rdesktop.org (Score:3, Informative)
RDP on a COMPUTER?!? (Score:1)
What we did ... (Score:4, Interesting)
We used citrix metaframe 1.8, so had the offical citrix ICA client for linux. The client was a little quirky - wouldn't go full screen properly so we had a +20 pixel green border around the edges of the 800x600 screen
The customisation rpm setup runlevel 4 to be a full screen session logging on to the metaframe servers.
We now have a nfs root system with very little on the harddisks; the kernel (isa network cards and netbooting was just too much work when we could just install grub and copy an updated kernel from the nfsroot when it changed), a few local settings (symlinked from the nfsroot into
Needless to say the thin clients are now being phased out, the thin clients run office type applications very well, but they don't do all the fancy multimedia interactive elearning stuff that all the teaching staff tell me they can no longer teach without.
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Everything you need (Score:5, Informative)
sell the hard drives and buy decent network cards then use
http://pxes.sourceforge.net/
boot the thin clients from the network, and hey presto : Rdesktop kiosks
Bad news for you. (Score:2, Informative)
In the end, if you don't want to replace your hardware, you would have to run win95 with and RDP client on them.
Re:Bad news for you. (Score:1)
PXES is where it is at (Score:3, Informative)
Re:PXES is where it is at (Score:1)
Freedos (Score:3, Interesting)
CAL Licensing (Score:5, Informative)
More info:
http://www.winnetmag.com/Windows/Article/A
-Adi Gadwale.
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Re:CAL Licensing (Score:2)
Re:CAL Licensing (Score:3, Informative)
For Terminal Services running on Windows servers, clients require a separate TS CAL. For NT4 and Windows 2000, this TS CAL requirement is waived if the client OS is of an equal or greater version. For Windows Server 2003, Microsoft discontinued this free TS CAL. A transition plan [microsoft.com] was made available for a
Pilot Linux... (Score:5, Informative)
I was looking for a quick and easy solution to getting more use out of aging PCs at my former job last Spring. We had a Microsoft RDP environment (switched from Cisco) and a bunch of old PIIs still running Windows 95.
I found Pilot Linux, which boots straight to RDesktop in effect turning your PC into a thin client.
Customizing it is really only a matter of changing a couple of scripts. The challenging part is mounting the
After that you simply copy all of the files to another directory, dip into one of the config files (can't remember which off-hand) to change the settings (I even added a
I want to stress that it took me about 3 hours to learn all of this prior to which I had zero experience with any form of CD distro. I didn't even know you could mount an
Unfortunately, though it worked wonderfully well, my IT Director didn't know anything about Linux and therefore didn't like it. Instead he stuck with Microsoft products and so he ordered 50 new PCs with Windows XP pre-installed just for the Remote Desktop feature (everything else was locked down), in the process using up much of the department's leftover budget for the whole year within the first six months (the majority was spent on new XP servers).
Re:Pilot Linux... (Score:2)
Re:Pilot Linux... (Score:1)
I can identify with that. The company where I worked w
What's on them now ? (Score:2)
Alternatively, just pick some LiveCD distro with X11 and rdesktop included.
Re:What's on them now ? (Score:2)
More importantly, it sidesteps the problems of drivers! Granted, this won't be a big deal if they are all identical, all plug and play hardware. It depends on the gear, P133's are right around the time when plug and play finally started working properly for
THINSTATION is the answer (Score:1)
It is a complete Linux distro that can be used as a RDP "thin terminal" (does also support ICA, Tarantella, XDM, VNC etc.).
Thinstation can boot on diskless terminals (Etherbot/PXE), but also from floppy, CD, HD or Compact Flash IDE devices.
133Mhz CPU and 16/32Mb RAM should be good enough.
You want them to be netbootable and diskless (Score:2)
FreeBSD is pretty good for it -- I tried too. If you insist on Linux, find one, which support diskless setup "out of the box".