I’m in desperate need for Linux guru

[James McDonald]

Folks,

This is the text in an email that I got from an old colleague. They have 
a windows server environment running http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/ 
as clients.

<QUOTE>
I?m in desperate need for Linux guru. I?m working at a site where the 
original computer support person set up there old PC?s to use a bootable 
CD and a floppy disk to create an RDP session onto there terminal 
server. We?ve installed a new terminal server with a different IP 
address. We managed to edit the .conf file on the disk but we have now 
lost the use of the right end of the keyboard. (the number pad). It also 
didn?t edit exactly correctly because it adds a ? at the edd of the 
username and computer name.
</QUOTE>

The fix ended up being a simple dos2unix configfile fix. He had edited 
all the config files in windows. I suppose this is going to happen more 
and more as Windows admins try to come to grips with heterogeneous 
environments.

But man I loved the idea of thinstation I hadn't heard of it before. A 
bootable CD with about 5MB of files and a floppy cool. Personally I 
reckon you could change your whole environment to terminal services just 
using USB memory sticks.