Thin Client in the Home

I have very little knowledge about a Thin Client environment.

I'd like to buy a pretty solid desktop and then buy a couple netbooks. Since
the faster hard drives (SSDs) are typically quite small, like 8 GB, when in
my house I think it would be cool to use the netbooks as Thin Clients and the
desktop as a server.

In broad terms, could that be done in Vista or even Windows 7? How?

Thank you.

The first thing a thin client needs is a server to connect to. This
requires specialized software and is not something you can just turn on in a
desktop operating system. You'd need to purchase additional, expensive
software to attempt this. It's also pretty likely that your netbook will
not work as a thin client since that is generally done in hardware/firmware
on the client, again it's not something you can switch on and off from such
a device.

"Matthew Schwarz" <> wrote in
message news:6509190E-2B5A-4F8C-BA2C-...
> I have very little knowledge about a Thin Client environment.
>
> I'd like to buy a pretty solid desktop and then buy a couple netbooks.
> Since
> the faster hard drives (SSDs) are typically quite small, like 8 GB, when
> in
> my house I think it would be cool to use the netbooks as Thin Clients and
> the
> desktop as a server.
>
> In broad terms, could that be done in Vista or even Windows 7? How?
>
> Thank you.

Hi Matthew Schwar

Have a look at MS Windows Home Server OS

This is what I use on a old P4 with 4 HD, looks after 6 Notebooks

Back-up, File sharing, kids can go away, any way in the world send bac
there photos etc over the web to are Server

Min Spe
P3-100
512mb Ra
70g H

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theog

"theog" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Hi Matthew Schwarz
>
> Have a look at MS Windows Home Server OS.
>
> This is what I use on a old P4 with 4 HD, looks after 6 Notebooks.
>
> Back-up, File sharing, kids can go away, any way in the world send back
> there photos etc over the web to are Server.
>
> Min Spec
> P3-1000
> 512mb Ram
> 70g HD
>
>


I believe the OP is looking for an Application server. Install the software
on one machine and let many clients run it.