Comments on: Turn old PC into Thin Client for Free – Version 1.1

By: james briggs

james briggs — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:22:08 +0000

thanks its amazing how many times I passed over it, and never saw it…

By: admin

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:10:51 +0000

You will find it under the download section or directly here

By: SKIP

SKIP — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:21:35 +0000

Turn old PC into Thin Client for Free – Version 1.1

Wheer do I download???

By: admin

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:00:29 +0000

Hi James

On your Web Interface Server in AMC – Right click the XenApp webpage – Authentication Methods – Properties – Domain Restrictions – Add

Eric

By: james briggs

james briggs — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:46:53 +0000

First great article, second a quick question.

How are you getting the xenapp webinterface not to ask for the domain name where it is autopopulated? We are currently having that problem with deployment, and really haven’t had alot of great sucess with it…

Thanks,

James Briggs

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Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:33:05 +0000

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By: admin

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:14:59 +0000

Hi Tom.

My script is based on script made for VMware View, but they are completely independent. Take a look at this demo video and you´ll see how is works.

http://www.xenappblog.com/2009/video-demonstration-of-thinclientpc/

This will also work with IE 8, but it´s possible that you get some other IE pop up boxes. I will try to fix this in the next version.

Eric

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:05:13 +0000

Also, info on setting this up with IE 8.x would be very much appreciated.

Thank you, Tom

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:04:12 +0000

It would be nice to see a version designed for Citrix independent of VMware View.

Thank you, Tom

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:10:37 +0000

Been there done that, and now I work somewhere else where thin clients won’t (currently) work with our main product. This is why I say that I need USB 2.0 to work over the network, we have check scanners and full page scanners that are USB only and relatively high speed, high enough that even if we can make a virtual/tc combo even see the scanner, it chokes and dies and slows down after the 3rd document (USB 1.1 speeds).

Our customers are banks, and I would *love* to sell them a centrally managed solution, but I can’t. Back when my customers were hospitals with barcode scanners and nothing else, heck yeah! Citrix all the way! Working for a big engineering company, we used Citrix for everything, but mainly to centralize some apps and offer up others in environments that could not be stolen. ESG gateways for road warriors and home use, the works.

Now, money *is* an object, USB 2.0 still isn’t ready, and the price point for Citrix for 4-10 user shops is *WAY* too high already without doubling up on MS licenses (XP/TS-CAL/Citrix CAL) for full XP clients. I can’t make it go, and no one has shown me anything that can move the silly scanner any further than the max USB cable length from the server.

The PC-over-IP stuff will probably work, but the price point is too high (full PC + more hardware to make it IP) unless they are completely security obsessed, which many banks are not (Scary!).

Thin clients are great, but the security and patches etc. for maintaining a full XP client just for that makes me twitch. “The Best User Experience is Windows”, I just can’t bring myself to be ok with that. I haven’t had a good experience with Windows in years, it’s a total minefield in hostile territory. Sorry.

Citrix and VMWare are missing a boat by not making Linux clients. M$ must have made a field trip to Palo Alto and Ft. Lauderdale to emphasize how much they didn’t like their pseudo-partners even thinking about Linux, since they are already looking the other way on licensing. Gad, the licensing, another ulcer.

And, yes, I even built a 286 with DOS and ICA DOS. It worked, but it wouldn’t win any speed records.