Thinclient
smeserver-thinclient
Maintainer: TrevorB
Current version: 2.0-5
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 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
You will then need to activate the database changes, re-order the navigation menu, etc.
signal-event post-upgrade signal-event reboot
Go to the Thin Clients panel on Server Manager (within the Configuration section) and 'enable' 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
Enable 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 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 (2 tasks) ⇒ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12784 | SME Contribs | 11.0 | CONFIRMED | perl-CGI 'startform' and 'endform' are dropped in favor of 'start_form' and 'end_form' |
| 9915 | SME Contribs | 9.1 | CONFIRMED | Archive install doesn't handle duplicates well |