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What do I need to get started with thin clients?

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I'm planning to make an ubuntu server (with load balancing to a few offstage computers) and have thin clients connect to it. Unfortunately, I don't know how to make a thin client, or the setup involved. I really like virtualization and servers and stuff like that.

Basically, I'd have a resource pool of computers sitting underneath a desk and I could have another computer, somewhere else that runs off of it... I'm not sure if I'm getting the concept right.

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answered 1 Year ago uxuriousrnal · Accepted Answer

You can use X2Go for thin clients, both on the server and on the clients. You'd probably network the servers to add a shared storage using nfs or similar, and LDAP for users and groups. Then you install the software you need on all the computers. That means your user can log onto any server with his username and password and get his desktop and files. Then you can use DNS for load balancing, for instance.

There are many ways of doing it. The more specified your question is, the more detailed the answer can be.

I think actually X2Go has load balancing included, but I've never tried it. www.x2go.org has more info.