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=== Description ===
 
=== Description ===
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Allow and control pxeboot of Thin Client workstations over network - PXE capable NIC and BIOS required on target machine.
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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 ===
 
=== Requirements ===
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A tftp server is reqired. This can be on your smeserver (for your convenience I have created another contrib smeserver-tftpd) or elsewhere in network.  
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The thinclient workstations are receiving their dhcp info from your smeserver.
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This smeserver is acting as your dhcp server (as it uses the dhcp settings to tell the workstations where to get the images to boot from).
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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).
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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 ===
 
=== Installation ===
 
This contrib is currently held in the smedev repository, so the following commands will install on your smeserver.
 
This contrib is currently held in the smedev repository, so the following commands will install on your smeserver.
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yum --enablerepo=smedev install smeserver-thinclient
 
yum --enablerepo=smedev install smeserver-thinclient
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You will then need to activate the database changes etc.
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The 'official' way is to perform
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signal-event post-upgrade
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signal-event reboot
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Go to the Thin Clients panel on Server Manager (within the Configuration section) and activate etc.
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=== Upgrade from smeserver 6.x ===
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There is no 'official' upgrade thinclient from smeserver 6.x to 7.x, but if you unistall the current version before upgrading to smeserver 7.x (as per Unistall) and install the newer version after your upgrade (as per install), you just need to leave everything
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in your tftpboot directory and move the /home/e-smith/pxeclients file across to /home/e-smith/db/thinclients. eg.
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mv /home/e-smith/pxeclients /home/e-smith/db/thinclients
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Activate via the server manager panel and everything should still be there.
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=== Uninstall ===
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yum remove smeserver-thinclient
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=== Bugs ===
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Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section at bugzilla http://bugs.contribs.org/enter_bug.cgi
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and select the smeserver-thinclient component.
       
[[Category: Contrib]]
 
[[Category: Contrib]]
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