Sqeeze client pc's

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| Hi,
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| Can anyone tell me where i can find information how to sqeeze a pc.
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| thx
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HDI said:
Can anyone tell me where i can find information how to sqeeze a pc.
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Please explain exactly what that means, what you want to accomplish, and
why.
 
No, i want to know how to convert existing PCs (windows xp/windows
2000) to thin clients?

I am starting from zero;

all i know i need group policies on server and lokal policies on pc. I
looking for information.
 
HDI said:
No, i want to know how to convert existing PCs (windows xp/windows
2000) to thin clients?

I am starting from zero;

all i know i need group policies on server and lokal policies on pc. I
looking for information.
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You might start here:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=define:+thin+client&meta=
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client

Where you install no applications, except perhaps something like a Citrix
client on the XP PC, just enought to make sure the network functions
reliably when it connects to the Citrix server.

Alternately, you can yank the hard disks, and have them all just boot from
the network. That will give complete control to the server.

HTH
-pk
 
HDI said:
No, i want to know how to convert existing PCs (windows xp/windows
2000) to thin clients?

I am starting from zero;

all i know i need group policies on server and lokal policies on pc. I
looking for information.
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Well to cover some local security threats you can remove / disconnect any CD
or floppy, that's one reason for thin clients, and then you probably want to
look in the Group Policy newsgroup for sore specific technical advice on
disabling / limiting things. This does not remove internet based threats or
email based threats completely of course unless you also have the server
they will be communicating with set up properly too.

I mean you can set up a user on each with almost no privileges except to use
RDP but the time involved may cost more than buying a thin client that
simply "Can't do" stuff anyway :).

I've resurrected a few old 350Mhz machines to use as thin clients, I mean
the RDP client will work on 98 upwards, but we've had to install XP for the
other security aspects so it not without some cost. Since yours already are
2000 / XP you don't have that problem but I think security might be harder
to achieve this way. Our actual PCs belong to trusted users and users who
have to have a PC for other purposes with the thin clients going to the more
"Public" locations. In other words the old ones I've converted are in locked
offices and in the hands of people who if they wanted to do damage could do
so with or without a computer :) No matter what you do there will always be
a handful of people you just have to trust.

If you are not the IT pro at work (I'm not officially) please do much
consulting with the IT pro before even trying this (as I do) else it is your
backside on the line :)

Charlie
 
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