Specifications

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tool based on both users and clients. The administrator has the
ability to do remote shadowing of the Thin Client as well as
switching them on and off remotely. To help scale your centralized
ThinClientServer deployment, a set of fully redundant
ThinClientServers can be installed on the same network. These will
be capable of distributing the load of both the ThinClientServer as
well as the network bandwidth in your organisation. Should the
ThinClientServer/s be unavailable, the Thin Client will be capable of
working in offline mode if a cache is available. This feature is only
available for licensed customers.
Enterprise Edition License holders also have access to commercial
grade support via online support services.
Standard Edition
2X ThinClientServer Standard Edition provides a free alternative to
Enterprise Edition, with a reduced feature set.
• Only 10 licences will be available to use for free.
• Support only via user-to-user forums on
http://www.2x.com/forums.
How it works
In a nutshell, 2X ThinClientServer serves out the 2X ThinClientOS
to the thin clients. After the 2X ThinClientOS has booted, it obtains
its connection settings from the 2X ThinClientServer. These
settings are then used to connect to the terminal server.
The 2X ThinClientOS itself can be retrieved from the TFTP (Trivial
File Transfer Protocol) server (included with 2X ThinClientServer)
via PXE or Etherboot (also supplied on the CD-ROM which does
not rely on the network card’s ROM to load the PXE stack), or it
can be booted from a storage device (Hard disk, CD-ROM, USB).
The exact process by which the thin client boots and presents the
desktop to the user is explained in the following steps:
Step 1: Booting the thin client:
1. The thin client/computer is switched on. Based on the BIOS
setting, the thin client/computer now boots either via the hard
disk, PXE, Etherboot, USB or CD-ROM.