[AccessD] Network booting Windows XP

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Feb 10 20:25:40 CST 2005


Hi John:

There is always VNC. It is a cheap (free) virtual network. I am not sure of
the size of a client but I would suspect it will render down to 1.44 MB. It
was an open source product for a few years but it may be migrating.

http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/

Check it out.

Jim 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:57 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP

Well that's fine but I don't want to replace the cost of the hard disk with
the cost of a license for Terminal Server.  I have an action pack that gives
me 10 licenses for XP (6 used currently) so I have 4 legal licenses for XP.
I could go with Linux and do this (I think) but then I have to get into
Linux and I would really like to avoid that.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Neal Kling
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:34 PM
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Subject: RE: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP


Yup,

We've deployed quite a few Neoware thin clients which are essentially dumb
terminals. They work as web browsers and terminal services clients. Our
users have access to Access, among other things.

Neal

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:16 PM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP


Hi John

One of the features of Terminal Server is that you can use dumb diskless
network stations as clients.

/gustav

>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 10-02-2005 18:57:41 >>>
No I'm not.  I would like to build a handful of cheap computers with no
floppy, no cd, no hard disk but I need the processing power of the PC. 
IOW
the PC needs to power up. Load windows from a server, load a program from
the server and go to work.

Terminal server is generally a full on pc that boots off its own hard disk
and then loads TS client (from its own hard disk).

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP


..you're describing Terminal Server.

William Hindman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:32 PM
Subject: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP


> Does anyone have any experience in using XP in a diskless
environment? 
> Booting into Xp over the lan and using a shared disk for storage?
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com

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