Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Base => TCB Talk => Topic started by: tmcneill on September 10, 2013, 10:55:40 AM

Title: Thin Client
Post by: tmcneill on September 10, 2013, 10:55:40 AM

I set up TC for a customer for use as a Thin Client on an old machine.  I had previously used ThinStation for this.  It worked very well after getting my settings to save.

I wish I had time to put together a a TC remaster that would TFTP download the configuration based on the MAC address.

Another idea I had would be to integrate something like Google Drive using https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse On boot it could prompt for the sign in credentials and then your settings could follow you and your documents would be online.

Title: Re: Thin Client
Post by: gerald_clark on September 10, 2013, 10:59:38 AM

TC can netboot using a PXE server.
The server can have config files by MAC.
Please read the wiki http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:netbooting

Title: Re: Thin Client
Post by: tmcneill on September 10, 2013, 01:23:15 PM

Very nice.  That would be a very inexpensive set up using the ARM based systems.

Also I see there is a drop box client.  I will look into using it to store settings and documents.

Title: Re: Thin Client
Post by: andyj on September 13, 2013, 06:23:14 AM

You can even have TC be the boot server. I did this using TC in a VM on an ESX server. The clients had no local storage, they were RAM only, and booting took just 90 seconds from power on through POST, PXE boot, downloading extensions, starting X, touch screen calibration, to application running.