Ongoing thin clients? (1 Viewer)

keith2045

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I'm thinking about upgrading one of my systems and possibly adding another. I really dont like the idea of having to manage multiple systems, so i was thinking of possibly going with some sort of thin client solution. What i would like to do is setup a citrix server (or something similar) for my machines to remote into that way i only have 1 MP system to manage. Has anyone done anything like this?
 

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    might work for music on the thin client.

    you won't have much luck with video / TV over rdp.

    Joris.
     

    keith2045

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    Citrix doenst have to use RDP, they have their own solution that is better than RDP. I know RDP has issues playing videos, I'm not sure if citrix solution does or not
     

    JorisFRST

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    well,

    you might be right,

    our citrix guy thinks that it would be fine for SD material on a good LAN, he's not sure about HD,

    but according to this : Wyse Technology - Wyse Drives Future Client Virtualization Possibilities with New Line of High Performance Thin Clients for Knowledge Workers

    the new thin clients should handle it, still, youre tv server will have to be a good box to decode all that and stream it to the thin client, alot of config and finetuning to do, but maybe something to try.
     

    keith2045

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    Cool, i will have to try it sometime. I would rather not purchase one just to try it. My work has some, maybe i will try it with one of theirs :)
     

    hardcorehire

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    Same Thoughts

    I have the same thoughts and feeling about going to Thin Clients and only having one setup for all clients. Can you let me know how it goes and if you are able to stream to thin clients over citrix. Also what version of citrix you are using and where do you get it from?

    Thanks
     

    keith2045

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    Sure will do. Although it will probably be a long time (probably over a year) before i get to try it, I have some other obligations that have come up. :(
     

    Peter2

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    That looks promising since I also was thinking of lightweight, small boxes as additional clients.
    On the other hand, it will probably only be reserved for citrix and not rdp I guess, no?
     

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