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by wescrock

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Hello,

The place that I work (a university library) is going to be expanding and adding MANY public workstations. I tossed the idea in to use thin clients which would make everything much easier to manage.

The question:
What would I need to purchase/set up to be able to get thin clients up and running all using the same user profiles... I am thinking it would take something like Citrix.

Thank you,
Wes

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by shady108

you just need to set yourself up with a terminal server on windows 2003 server, its quick and easy.... install all your programs on whichever server you have chosen... add the users to the remote desktop users group........

setup an RDP connection on the thin client to the terminal server and job done

thats a quick summary of it :D

we have just implemented thin clients here its cut the support calls down in half

by wescrock

will it work with 80-90 machines all using the same user?

I am thinking we will need a few dedicated servers to handle that many users at once.

thanks,
Wes

by jamesrl

We sell it with that kind of configuration but in an enterprise server, able to access more than the 4GB of memory standard users get.

We have an enterprise server running decent apps with 9GB of RAM and 80 users. depends on usage patterns etc.

This or Citrix would be the only way to go in my opinion. Can you imagine upgrading say IE on 90 workstations versus doing it once on the server?

James

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