A thin client is a PC into a terminal. The conversion should when the PC is outdated or missing important parts (like hard disks). Where we use the thin client?
1 - in companies, when they have a well-equipped servers, they need a lot of positions for the employees, which do not complex or heavy
2 - in schools, to save hardware and maintain tight control;
3 - in all those cases in which the old PC hardware with some ailment abound.
NETWORK:
As the dawn of computing, the typical scenario involves the terminal (thin pc) to connect via the network (preferably wired) with a server, which provides a console or GUI "sent via the net.
For the sizing of the network infrastructure to take into account that the use of bandwidth is high (not recommended then the wireless) and it is important to use switches instead of hubs to avoid the most of the collisions of packets.
SERVER:
To choose the server you just have to say that the Windows side the only alternative is to use Terminal Services Arrange (implementation of RDP), while Linux alternatives are many, but the best in my opinion remains the X session
Obviously the server must be sized to support all the concurrent users (the main parameters are processor and disk space).
LICENSES:
To use Windows Terminal Services costs almost as much as a local installation of the operating system. For schools from Microsoft TS CALs EDU version to a quarter of the commercial price. The TS CAL RESENCE always require a server version of Windows, except for Small Business. There is an interesting alternative in the product
Terminal Services PRO elusive, which lets you use Windows XP for Terminal 5, the same Widnows Server mode, but without the cost of his license and 5 TS CAL. The price of this product is around $ 250.
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