Thin Client: New User Guide
Stephen Noble stephen7 at bigfoot.com
30th November 1999
1.How to turn inexpensive legacy computers into fast terminals using the power of your main computer, you will need : A fast computer to act as Server, A client computer (old and unwanted). Linux compatible network cards. A connection between computers. 2.How to centralise system administaration by useing NFS, ie placing the entire file system of a faster client on the server.
1. Introduction
2. Hardware and Documentation
3. Server setup
- 3.1 Check your network services on your server
- 3.2 Setting up a dhcpd daemon
- 3.3 Tftpd setup
- 3.4 Kernel image
- 3.5 Security
4. Client setup
5. Network files system
6. X-terminal
7. Acknowledgments & further exercises
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