Without Harddisk......

Hello there,

If you want to implement a thin client setup then I recommend moving to NT TSE with Citirix or Windows 2000. You will be able to install all applications on a central server and control who can use which application and where they can save and loads of other neat options.

You could use Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4 Terminal Server Edition. If you use these you can then buy Terminals (i.e computers with no floppy disks, Hard disks etc do a search for WinTerm on the web). With this type of configuration you install yourapplications on the server and (hopefully) never have to do anything to the clients as they cannot be configured.

Indeed you can use Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0, it works, the only detail you must know that the hardware requirements. It will ask for a lot of memory and some hard disk space. But you can admin. it very easy and the user doesn't have to have a powerfull computer, just a terminal and that should work just fine.
I am running a computer farm and Terminal Server and Citrix works just fine.

Good luck,

@lberto
alberto@pancarib.com

If your workstations have no HDD then your system must already be using the network to boot from. This can be done by having a Boot ROM in the Network Card (NIC) which then loads the OS from the server, or if the machine BIOS will handle it the network boot can be started from there. All the PC needs is to be able to locate the appropriate files to start the OS whether it is from HDD, Firmware, NIC, Network or Embedded ROM.
it appears no differently to the user.

Hope this info is what you were after.
Chris Hirst

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