[KLUG Members] question about locking down a linux system for TS client

[Richard Harding]

Adam Williams wrote:

>>We have some old HP terminals & older PCs we use to log into a Windows 
>>Terminal server. We are looking at upgrading the terminal server to 
>>win2k3 server and I want to see about replacing these terminals with 
>>some older machines that I would like to load linux on. The hope is that 
>>I could get the floppy on these machines to map to the 2k3 Terminal 
>>Server like the windows machines do now.
>>Does anyone have any info on:
>>1) can you map a drive from a linux system to the TS like you can from a 
>>windows client?
> 
> 
> Yes; if you have Samba on the Linux box you can map the connection in
> the users session via the login script or whatever.  
> 
> Honestly, I've never seen the point of mapping a drive from a
> thin-client.



Thanks for the info.

The main reason for this is that it is a small student lab and they 
often bring files they are working on in on floppies or a cd to work on. 
This way they can bring those in, print them, edit them and then leave 
and we still maintain the TS environment.