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 Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Neal Kling Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:34 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving 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 -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [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 Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of William Hindman Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 2:09 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP ..you're describing Terminal Server. William Hindman ""Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." Jay Lessig ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> 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 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com