Windows XP and Thin Clients

[Anon]

I have two computers. One is old the spec is: AMD K6-2
400MHz, 128MB RAM, 4GB HARD DISK, etc... and the one I am
using to post this message is fairly new and much
powerful than my older one. I heard the idea of Thin
clients in ICT at College and thought that this might be
a good idea as someone does use the old computer but it
is incredibly slow and networking both and using the more
powerful computer as a server and the old computer as a
thin client might speed it up and allow the sharing of
various resources.

I just want to know if Windows XP can be used as a server
for Thin Clients and if it can what do I have to do to
create a thin client so that it boots up using the server.

 

[malcolm stewart]

Have a look at www.thinsoftinc.com they have the product
you want called WinConnect Server XP for $299.00 US for 3
RDP client access If you purchase it Tell them Malcolm
Stewart from Melbourne Australia suggested it. You
obviously have XP put that disk in the other machines and
load up the RDP client you can configure it to to a set of
settings and then place the saved shortcut into the
startup of your old computers it will launch each time

regards

Mal
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Rob Schneider]

I have two computers. One is old the spec is: AMD K6-2
400MHz, 128MB RAM, 4GB HARD DISK, etc... and the one I am
using to post this message is fairly new and much
powerful than my older one. I heard the idea of Thin
clients in ICT at College and thought that this might be
a good idea as someone does use the old computer but it
is incredibly slow and networking both and using the more
powerful computer as a server and the old computer as a
thin client might speed it up and allow the sharing of
various resources.

I just want to know if Windows XP can be used as a server
for Thin Clients and if it can what do I have to do to
create a thin client so that it boots up using the server.

XP only handles one log-on at a time. as long as you are happy to limit
use of the "server" to one at at a time, then the Remote Desktop
application in XP will be ok.

Traditionally, this sort of distributed computing is done using
Unix/Linux software based on X-windows which has been doing it for
decades. Can handle as many users as the machine as power for.

In the Windows world, terminal server software (from Microsoft, Citrix,
etc.) does this sort of thing.