tailieunhanh - A HEMISPHERIC INITIATIVE Thin Client Computing Installation Manual

Most computer networks are fat client networks, where each computer on the network is fully responsible for all its processing, so it has to have all the software installed on its local harddrive and enough memory and processing power to run all that software. Unfortunately, these networks are inefficient uses of resources and very costly to maintain. Fed up with managing networks which were increasingly unmanageable, today many network administrators are turning to thin client networks as a way to simplify network management and hold their costs at bay. Similar to the old dumb terminals, thin clients are only in. | A HEMISPHERIC INITIATIVE Thin Client Computing Installation Manual Prepared by Amos Becker Batto email amosbatto AT yahoo DOT com web http serendipity Managed by The Center of Information and Communication Technology for Development Quipus Foundation of Bolivia World Computer Exchange of North America With Financial Support from The International Development Research Center IDRC The Institute for Connectivity in the Americas - ICA License This work is public domain and may be freely copied modified and redistributed. For more information see http licenses publicdomain La Paz - Bolivia August 2007 Table of Contents 1. 2. Hardware to set up a thin client . Buying the . Recommended requirements for a thin client . Example servers .10 . Obtaining thin . Dedicated thin . Miniature ITX . Reusing old . Buying used . . Graphics cards and sound . . Network Interface Card NIC .17 . Diskless thin Thin clients which boot from local harddrive. 17 . Networking . Networking two . Networking three or more . Network . Rules for using repeaters with 10BaseT and 100BaseTX .20 . Expanding an existing . Networking over the . High bandwidth networks in the . Scaling up your . Checking CPU and memory . Network load 3. Microsoft Windows thin . Windows Terminal . Windows Server . RDP 6 in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista . Working with older Windows . Alternatives to Windows Server 2000 2003 . .