Re: Thin Client / RDC-RDP

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ray -

Thanks ... I guess the problem is that Thin Clients seem to come in
quite a range of capabilties... some of them seem quite Thick ! ...
eg: the Neo's come with 'XP on-board (which I guess might be bad-news
for update & patching) ...

Chris


On 15 Apr 2006, at 12:05, Raymond Kelly wrote:

> The thin client will typically only have a browser - IE stored locally
> in its solid state memory. All other programs are stored and actually
> run on the application server. Basically the graphical part of the
> application is displayed on the thin client.
> It might be possible to load other programs onto the thin client but
> they are very picky.
>
> On 15/04/06, Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 'struggling here ... with a Thin Client, can an application be
> stored
> > on the machine or does it have to be on the server ... ie: could
I
> > load Idratek onto one of Mark's Neoware e100s ?   The overall
> scheme,
> > if I'm not making it too complicated, would be to use the Neo' on
> its
> > own (no keyboard, no mouse, no screen, no HD) and to manage it
via
> > RDC / RDP from a 'Mac ... all assuming, of course, that I could
load
> > the Idratek CD on the 'Mac (G4) & download it to the Neo',
without
> > having 'XP on the 'Mac, just RDC using RDP ... ????
> >
> > any thoughts, please !
> >
> > Chris
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