[THIN] Re: Kiosk Workstation
- From: Greg Watts <cgwatts@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:17:41 -0400
I have to use Program Neighborhood not Pnagent. (we cannot convince
the customer) Sorry if I was not clear.
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:07:53 -0700, Jim Hathaway <jimh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greg,
>
> Just some thoughts . . .
>
> How can you plan to utilize the Pnagent when you don't plan on
> installing or configing the Web interface anywhere in the site?
>
> The default setup of the Pnagent works off the URL of a WI site to pull
> it's available app list. If the site doesn't have a WI server somewhere
> . . then you'd need to manually config the config.xml for the Pnagents.
> Why bother with that when the WI doesn't cost anything other than server
> power to install and run? (it also auto configs the config.xml for you
> based on what you define in the WI admin site). Aside from all of this .
> . . WI 3.0 supports multiple MF farms.
>
> When faced with a similar type of environment for one of our clients, we
> setup their XP embedded thin terminals to autologin locally (workgroup
> no domain) and then auto launch a Kiosk mode IE window that goes direct
> to their internal Web interface site. This is the first and only login
> the end user ever sees for accessing applications.
>
> Kiosk mode IE = "Iexplore.exe -k Http://WIsite.local.domain";
>
> I like the Pnagent a lot personally, but I'm not sure that it's the
> correct solution for your design here.
>
> J
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Greg Watts
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 1:43 PM
> To: Thin
> Subject: [THIN] Kiosk Workstation
>
> I would like to create a kiosk with just Windows XP and Program
> Neighborhood 8.0 on the machine. The Workstation will be stand alone
> and not be a member of a domain. I would like to have the user just
> click on PN and and be prompted for his username/password and domain
> to logon to his application set and then have all his application
> icons be created and then he can just log onto the applications
> without being prompted a second time when loading the app. I guess the
> basic question can I passthru the username/password and domain from
> logging onto the application set to the published application on the
> Metaframe server? The customer also has multiple farms so I will need
> to create multiple application sets (one to each farm).Web Interface
> is not an option (they don't want it). Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Greg Watts
> cgwatts@xxxxxxxxx
> cgwatts@xxxxxxxxxxx
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