Posts Tagged ‘ThinStation’

Reconnect Just Flickers & Returns

Monday, September 28th, 2009

After all that work sorting out my user profiles, and reducing my logon time as far as I can (record is 12 seconds from entering password to a working desktop :-) ) I have found another problem.

The clients are booting up fine, pulling the config files from the network and running the right applications. However, once they have been logged out and returned to the Shutdown/Reconnect dialog, there is no way to reconnect to the server.

When you click it, it starts to try to reconnect, and then flickers, and then returns to the Shutdown/Reconnect dialog, just going round and round in a circle. If I shutdown and reboot, it all works fine.

That’s tomorrow’s challenge now I feel.

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ThinStation – Sound & USB!!

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Just sorted sound and USB device access with my ThinStation deployment.

I inserted the following lines to the thinstation.conf.buildtime file and it all started to work.

USB_STORAGE_SYNC=On USB_MOUNT_DIR=”/mnt/usbdevice” SESSION_0_RDESKTOP_OPTIONS=”-r disk:USBDrive=/mnt/usbdevice -r sound:local”

Make sure too that you have the necessary modules included for storage device and USB access in the build.conf file.

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ThinStation Installer – Working!!

Monday, August 17th, 2009

As I am currently unable to get my Windows Installations to work correctly over RIS (note: this means the last attempt didn’t work…), I thought I would give a go to installing ThinStation using RIS, and for machine without PXE boot roms, a USB stick installer.

I thought from the outset that this would be quite a challenge. Little did I realise how easy it would be.

In 4 hours, I have managed to configure and test both methods of installing ThinStation. I’m so happy!!

Two bugs to sort out – most likely I removed a driver that I needed or haven’t enabled a package. 1. I cannot get any sounds that are playing on the Terminal Server to play on the client and 2. I cannot get any USB sticks inserted on the client to be registered on the server.

For those of you who are now wondering what ThinStation is and what I am jabbering on about, click the link below to find out more.

http://www.thinstation.org

A bit of time tomorrow sorting out the two bugs and configuring the user experience on the server will mean that we have our thin client network sorted.

Maybe later I will post how I got it all to work and the network configuration that we have. Will also post later on the outcome when it is in use. (This is a test implementation.)

Ought to look at my Windows RIS install again now…

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