Meat Plow wrote:
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:40:05 -0700, D Yuniskis
I would assume there should be a way to tell it the
default mode (TS vs. LCD) in which it should power up.
So, if you did NOT want to use it as a TS client, you
could "just" use it as a nice little (17") LCD monitor.
Folks who have played with them (*as* "dumb" LCD monitors)
are always confused when it powers up with a "pretty" GUI
screen -- and doesn't seem to respond to their keyboard!
(because their keyboard is connected to their PC and
their PC's output is -- currently -- not being shown
on the display!).
We've not had any luck trying to get them to behave as
TS clients so we can't decide if they are worth deploying
in that mode :-/
The server PC would have to run their software.
No, I think the server is just intended to run MS's
RDP (I may be mistaken, but the on screen displays seem
to imply that). Without technical info, its hard to say
authoritatively! :

Well from what little I gleaned it used/uses exclusive UTMA
technology (Ultra Thin Multi-Access). To me at least that is
an NComputing proprietary protocol. Probably why you can't
get it to talk to Windows TS.

I have no idea. I'm not the one playing with them :
We'd been told they were "MS Terminal Server clients".
But, this could be that folks aren't aware of the various
technologies that have been used over the years to
implement thin clients (X terminals, Sun Rays, etc.).
I was approached solely because I am the X-terminal
expert :-/

I was hoping that a way could be found to just turn them
into "dumb monitors" using some "SETUP menu" (not possible
sing the thin client configuration pages). I don't want to
encourage the use of MS protocols as they are too expensive
to support, long term :-/

If the only option is "install some proprietary, long since
unsupported software on some *particular* version of an
MS OS" then I think I'll just recommend a "pass" on these
and let the recycler have them.

Thanks!
--don