Other thin client help

hi
not sure this is the right section

i`m running windows 7 on my main computer and have a little laptop pentium 3 256mb ram

i would like to set up my lappy as a network bootable thin client. but i`m un sure on how to go about this
can any one help me with this.

i`m no pc noob but dont know any thing about thin clients
not sure you need system specs but i`ll be happy to provide.

thanks in advance

 

Fast Way

Hi,

I've had success with -->

http://www.thinstation.org/LiveCD/

But there are tons of different distro's marketed as thin client OSs, most of them come with bootable CD and even VMWare versions now so you can afford to try 10 or 20 different ones and find the one that makes most sense in your specific case.

I tend to use MS RDP protocol for windows thin clients, it's pretty full featured (more than say tightVNC which is another popular choice). If you have very low bandwidth connectivity (say you want this to be a thin client over GPRS connection when out and about), there are other better options.

Hope it helps

 

thats loads of help mate thanks v much.

what i`m after really is a way to run windows 7 on this laptop using the power of my main machine.

is this possible or am i asking too much

thanks again

 

can kind of run it like that but only the latest version of RDP (windows 7) allows for aero to be used thu RDP.
so from the laptop you will only get the basic theme and no graphics acceleration. So no games, etc.

 

na i`m not after all the pretty stuff.

the lappy is just to be sat in my office and used for invoicing and email (any office related tasks)

and possibly a bit of music serving


guys thanks so much for your help its given me plenty of research material

 

ok so after a lot of good advice from here and various other places if settle on virtua box buy sun micros systems

this is an awsome program
its free
had it running in five min
installed windows 7 64 and it works perfect

now i just have to work out how to get my lappy to access it
any ideas?

lap top runs xp but i`d like to do away with it really and have it boot straight to windows 7 if that even possible

 

Quick google turns this up.

http://www.thinstation.org/

Bung it on your hard drive (you can network boot ... but why bother) and set up an RDP connection profile to your Win 7 box, and set it to auto connect (as per above quote).

When it boots it'll bring up the RDP login prompt

There's even a LiveCD so you can test the performance of it.

 

thanks you all so much for your help with this i have learnt so much from you all and will follow on from here

unfortunately the screen on my laptop turned white last night with horizontal lines and now it wont work at all so its become some what of a moot point.
gonna slam a rig together out of my parts stash and follow on from there when i get chance
thanks again rep all round