Re: I’m in desperate need for Linux guru

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 6/7/05, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> 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.

Funny you should mention that.  One of my colleagues here had students
developing bootable USB sticks that would work like a Live! CD and bring
up a tailored Linux.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
Cal Poly