Thinclient

Thinclient for SME Server

Maintainer

Trevor Batley

Description

This contribution for smeserver 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).

Requirements

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 smeserver-tftpd). The thinclient workstations have a PXE capable NIC and BIOS. (although booting from floppy & CD is possible. Please refer to the documentation of your thinclient OS).

Installation

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

yum --enablerepo=smedev install smeserver-thinclient

You will then need to activate the database changes etc. The 'official' way is to perform

signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot

Go to the Thin Clients panel on Server Manager (within the Configuration section) and activate etc.

Upgrade from smeserver 6.x

There is no 'official' upgrade thinclient from smeserver 6.x to 7.x, but if you uninstall the current version before upgrading to smeserver 7.x (as per Uninstall) and install the newer version after your upgrade (as per install), you just need to leave everything in your tftpboot directory and move the /home/e-smith/pxeclients file across to /home/e-smith/db/thinclients. eg.

mv /home/e-smith/pxeclients /home/e-smith/db/thinclients

Activate via the server manager panel and everything should still be there.

Uninstall

yum remove smeserver-thinclient

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section at bugzilla http://bugs.contribs.org/enter_bug.cgi and select the smeserver-thinclient component.