Thinclient
smeserver-thinclient
Maintainer
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 this page.
Requirements
- smeserver >= 7.0
- 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 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 for thinclient from smeserver 6.x to 7.x, but if you:
- uninstall the current version before upgrading to smeserver 7.x (rpm -e smeserver-thinclient) 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/thinclient. eg.
mv /home/e-smith/pxeclients /home/e-smith/db/thinclient
Activate via the server manager panel and everything should still be there.
Uninstall
yum remove smeserver-thinclient
Source
The source for this contrib can be found in the smeserver CVS on sourceforge.
A copy is held in my contribs directory
Bugs
Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-thinclient component.
