I was asked to investigate a solution for a customer of ours who was interested in turning his old 98 PCs into Thin Client devices with no hard drive, no cd rom and no floppy. He wants to boot from a NIC card. However it seems everything I have found to boot into an ICA or Terminal Services session requires some sort of *nix server to take the initial boot requests. Was wondering if there was something that doesnt require *nix and can run well in a 2k/2k3 Terminal Services enviornment.
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Bootable NIC solution for Win2k/2k3 enviornment
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Not native to Windows, or Citrix natively.
There are some Unix alternatives to access at least Citrix, and Terminal Server.
But if the machines are this old, cannot sustain a pure upgrade to Win2k or XP, this is a folly to pursue seriously.
There are some Unix alternatives to access at least Citrix, and Terminal Server.
But if the machines are this old, cannot sustain a pure upgrade to Win2k or XP, this is a folly to pursue seriously.
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maybe you could make a script that would auto login the pc's and then run the ICA client. So in effect the machine would boot like a normal pc and then soon as it get to login it would auto run the client and go to your Terminal server.
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