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Maintainer	TrevorB
Source:	smeserver-thinclient
Licence	open source
Category	Administration
Tags	PXE Thinclient

Version

smecontribs-testing 11:

2.2-6

smecontribs 10:

2.2-3

smecontribs 9:

2.1-3

smeserver-thinclient

The latest version of smeserver-thinclient is available in the SME repository, click on the version number(s) for more information.

Description

This contribution adds a server manager panel that allows an administrator to manage thinclient workstations (ie. workstations that are using the pxeboot protocol to retrieve a boot image from the server).

For usage see Thinclient usage.

Requirements

• smeserver >= 10.0
• smeserver-pxe (will be installed as a dependency when installing smeserver-thinclient)
• The thinclient workstations are receiving their dhcp info from your smeserver.
• A tftp-server, either on your smeserver or another server in your domain (I have also created a contrib to install a tftp server on your smeserver).
• The thinclient workstations have a PXE capable NIC and BIOS. (although booting from usb stick, floppy & CD is possible. Please refer to the documentation of your thinclient OS).

Installation

This contrib is held in the smecontribs repository, so the following commands will install on your smeserver.

yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-thinclient

Go to the Thin Clients panel on Server Manager (within the Configuration section) and 'enable' etc. Usage (Thinclient usage).

Related Contribs

Requires smeserver-pxe

Can work with and use smeserver-tftp-server

Uninstall

yum remove smeserver-thinclient

If you no longer need to do any pxe booting, please also remove smeserver-pxe

yum remove smeserver-pxe

And to remove all traces, you can

rm /home/e-smith/db/thinclient
rm /etc/dhcpd.thinclient

Source

The source for this contrib can be found in the smecontribs CVS on sourceforge.

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-thinclient component or use this link

ID	Product	Version	Status	Summary
12784	SME Contribs	11.0	VERIFIED	perl-CGI 'startform' and 'endform' are dropped in favor of 'start_form' and 'end_form'

Changelog

Only versions released in smecontrib are listed here.

smeserver-thinclient Changelog: SME 10 (smecontribs)

2022/07/01 Trevor Batley 2.2-3.sme
- consolidate patches etc. and replace tarball
- trigger update event on all save of workstation [SME 12085]
- move templates2expand and services2adjust into createlinks [SME 12086]

- move changelog in spec to end

2022/05/10 Trevor Batley 2.2-2.sme
- added missing migrate/00openRW fragment for thinslient DB [SME 11967]

2022/04/28 Trevor Batley 2.2-1.sme
- added /etc/dhcpd.thinclient include file for pxe clients
- remove core pxe components and add requirement for smeserver-pxe [SME: 11960]
- add options for different architectures [SME: 10821]
- change back to using / updating tftp [SME: 11939]
- fixed some dodgy db parameter processing

- rollup patches (archive.patch, tftpd.conf)

2020/10/29 Brian Read 2.1-4.sme
- Initial import to SME10 tree [SME: 11073]

2016/04/25 Trevor Batley 2.1-3
- Allow upload and extract of 'Distribution' archives for loading into /tftpboot [9481]

- Always set tftproot as /tftpboot as default [9441]

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