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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
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Thinclient is a contribution that adds a server manager panel to allow an administrator to manage thinclient workstations (ie. workstations that are using the pxeboot protocol to retrieve a boot image from the server).
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Thinclient is a contribution that adds a server manager panel to allow an administrator to manage PXE booted workstations/devices (ie. workstations/devices that are using the pxeboot protocol to retrieve a boot image from the server) via dhcp.
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PXE Booting is a facility for allowing LAN workstations to boot an operating system over the network. A reasonable overview (and fairly detailed description of how to get it working) can be found at the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php PXELINUX] site.
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PXE Booting is a facility for allowing LAN devices to boot an operating system over the network. A reasonable overview (and fairly detailed description of how to get it working) can be found at the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php PXELINUX] site.
    
After [[Thinclient#Installation|installation]] the server manager panel can be found under the Configuration category of the server manager menu.
 
After [[Thinclient#Installation|installation]] the server manager panel can be found under the Configuration category of the server manager menu.
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=== Your PXE Boot Server is ===
 
=== Your PXE Boot Server is ===
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If Thinclient is enabled, PXE Booting is enabled and your smeserver dhcp will supply the filepath of a pxe bootable image to any LAN workstation requesting it. If you also have the [[Tftp server|smeserver-tftp-server]] contrib installed, the tftp server will be enabled/disabled in parallel with Thinclient.
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PXE booting is provided by the [[Pxe|smeserver-pxe]] contrib, but can de enabled/disabled here.
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If 'Your PXE Boot Server is' enabled, PXE Booting is enabled and your smeserver dhcp will supply the filepath of a pxe bootable image to any LAN device requesting it. If you also have the [[Tftp server|smeserver-tftp-server]] contrib installed, the tftp server will be enabled/disabled in parallel with Thinclient.
    
=== Your TFTP Server is ===
 
=== Your TFTP Server is ===
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