We use HP Thin Clients + Terminal Services over RDP in our High School Media Center. The performance and reliability can't be matched by any PC except the top end stuff. Ncomputing looks interesting though because it is pretty cheap for the base hardware however you still need monitors, keyboards and mice and even then I wouldn't want to use it on anything low end for a PC.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kmckenney Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 11:14 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] N-computing We're using Terminal Services over RDP extensively at Schaller-Crestland. Everything so far has worked except for Flash (the plugin, not the drive) but I am working on updating that. One thing I would like to know is how to control the screens at multiple computers with one session, thereby giving either demonstrations or presentations to the entire school or a group of workstations simultaneously. I can control each user's desktop seperately, and I can set up the computer to shut each person's programs down or keep them active, allow thm to login from different workstations, log them off manually, take over individual sessions, etc. It works well in my experience. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Scott Fosseen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:22:13 -0600 I have a video from Interop from them. It looks REALLY good. I do have an L200 here but I have not had time to take it out of the box. Are you looking at the solution where you use 1 host to connect up to 6 screens via Cat5 cable and a PCI card in the host, or the Connect 30 via the Ethernet device? If you use the PCI card version (6 extra via cat5) you can map specific USB ports on the host to specific thin clients. The Ethernet version has a integrated USB port. The basics the way I understand the operation. It is not so much a traditional "Thin Client". The best way I can describe it relates to Windows XP. When you have an XP system configured to use the Icon Login (1 icon for each user) you have the ability to "Log Off/Switch Users". When I logoff/Switch users all the programs I had open continue to run. Then my wife logs in and she only sees her desktop and her programs that are running. My understanding is that is how the N-Computing model works only the hardware client give you're a dedicated monitor/keyboard/mouse for each logged in user. Let me see if I can get the N-Computing video on-line today or early next week. From: Henn, Layne Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 9:34 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] N-computing Any experience out there with this product? www.Ncomputing.com Any other "multi-user"computimg products out there that people are using? How about software issues? Any thing that doesn't work? I know flash drives are an issue. We are looking into this for allowing more computer access in elementary classrooms. Any feedback or comments are welcome. Layne Henn 712-224-7423 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by the schaller-crest.k12.ia.us server.] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ --------------------------------------------------------- --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ ---------------------------------------------------------
