371
edits
Changes
From SME Server
Jump to navigationJump to search→Description
Thinclient is a contribution that 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).
Thinclient is a contribution that 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).
After [[Thinclient#Installation|install]] the server manager panel can be found under the Configuration category of the server manager menu.
PXE Booting is a facility for allowing LAN workstations to boot an operating system over the network. A reasonable overview (and fairly detailed description of how to get it working) can be found at the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php PXELINUX] site.
After [[Thinclient#Installation|installation]] the server manager panel can be found under the Configuration category of the server manager menu.
[[Image:Thinclientmenu.png]]
[[Image:Thinclientmenu.png]]
=== Configuration ===
== Your PXE Boot Server is ==
If Thinclient is enabled, PXE Booting is enabled and your smeserver dhcp will supply the filepath of a pxe bootable image to any LAN workstation requesting it. If you also have the [[Tftp server|smeserver-tftp-server]] contrib installed, the tftp server will be enabled/disabled in parallel with Thinclient.
== Your TFTP Server is ==
This is a dropdown list containing 'Self' and all hostnames defined via your Hostnames and addresses server-manager panel.
*You '''MUST''' specify which Tftp server you will be using to supply the image.
*Selecting Self will activate the Tftp server running on this server (if [[Tftp server|smeserver-tftp-server]] is installed).
*You can also select from any host defined on your network (preferred), or specify the IP address of the machine your Tftp server is running on.
== The default distribution is ==
This is a dropdown list of 'none' and all the [[#Distributions|'distributions']] that you have defined (default is the /tftproot directory).
*The default distribution will be used by all Workstations unless you specify individual settings for a Workstation.
*If you select 'None', you will need to use individual Workstation settings for all Workstations.
=== Distributions ===
[[Image:Thinclientdistribution.png]]
