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Booting to Terminal Client

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JoeB - 04 Dec 2003 14:56 GMT
I have a dozen or so Win95 boxes I am using as terminals, and would like to be able to set them to boot directly to the terminal services, somewhat like a Wyse terminal.  I am using a Win2k Terminal Server, and have all of the boxes set with a desktop icon, but I'd rather not give the users access to the local box itself.

Any thoughts?

Thanks a bunch,
JoeB
Matthew Harris [MVP] - 04 Dec 2003 21:00 GMT
Try renaming the RDP client's executable to explorer.exe,
then putting that file into the Windows directory, all
while renaming the original explorer.exe.

-M

>-----Original Message-----
>I have a dozen or so Win95 boxes I am using as terminals, and would like to be able to set them to boot directly to
the terminal services, somewhat like a Wyse terminal.  I
am using a Win2k Terminal Server, and have all of the
boxes set with a desktop icon, but I'd rather not give the
users access to the local box itself.

>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks a bunch,
>JoeB
>.
Tony Falsone - 07 Dec 2003 05:24 GMT
Take a look at ThinPC
http://www.neoware.com/products/thinpc/index.html

or a few unsupported methods like Thinstation at
http://www.ccaheaven.com/Downloads.htm

Tony
www.ccaheaven.com

> I have a dozen or so Win95 boxes I am using as terminals, and would like to be able to set them to boot directly to the terminal services, somewhat like a Wyse terminal.  I am using a Win2k Terminal Server, and have all of the boxes set with a desktop icon, but I'd rather not give the users access to the local box itself.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks a bunch,
> JoeB
Paul Bleier - 31 Jan 2004 06:42 GMT
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a dozen or so Win95 boxes I am using as terminals, and would like to be able to set them to boot
directly to the terminal services, somewhat like a Wyse
terminal.  I am using a Win2k Terminal Server, and have
all of the boxes set with a desktop icon, but I'd rather
not give the users access to the local box itself.

>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks a bunch,
>JoeB
>.

I have 36 486 boxes running Win95 in a classroom
environment.  I have the desktop icon for TS client in
the Startup folder - it launches itself as soon as the 95
desktop appears.  To keep the desktops from being played
with I use several freebie programs that lock it down
fairly well.  I use TweakUI to hide all the drives from
inside the My Computer window, MOS2b (MyOwnSettings) to
hide the control panel so they can't get to TweakUI, then
I finish it off with IconLock.  They only see the
MyComputer icon on the desktop (which appears empty) and
the client software icon so they can start TS if it
hasn't already loaded.  When they click the Start Menu on
the client computers there is only "Shut Down" in the
menu.  They hate it; I love it.

Paul Bleier
 
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