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Re: PXE Booting Vmware View Linux Client w/Ubuntu (Not using LTSP)

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Dear Ebelange

 

 

WHat i mean is the physical clients are different

HP Dell and so on.

 

But i changed the guest os to tiny windows with autologon ( domain ) , Modified the SHell with vbs script this will autostart the vmware view client and Nothing else is selected.

 

I had some weird failures with the client on the Ubuntu distro. The PXE was booting and i got the LXDE Desktop. Autostarted the vmware view client

That was all perfect. Then i logged in the vmware view , also perfect . and then Select the pool. It opens and then i got thrown out of the client.

 

The strange thing was with the client for windows i had no problems. I was testing in the LAB was all perfect with the LINUX PXE but when i moved the servers to the client the problem started.

 

Because of the time pressure ( school was starting again ) i needed to have a solution. and i was sure the windows env. was working

so i changed the solution with windows xp as base. made it part of the domain ( and installed ofcourse antvirus )

I created a seperated organisation unit in active directory with a autologon user.

 

 

I downloaded the autologon.exe tool from microsoft and installed that tool on all physical clients. ( the Student PC's )

Then the funny part started.

 

I created a small vbs script  and a cmd file.

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   Set viewShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
   viewShell.Run Chr(34) & "c:\BATCHSCRIPT\viewclient.cmd" & Chr(34), 0
   Set viewShell = Nothing
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@echo off
:viewClient
"C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc.exe"
Goto viewClient
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Added in the GPO for this user / OU several entries and also the registry entry
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell
REG_SZ
wscript C:\BATCHSCRIPT\viewClient.vbs
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This will replace the explorer.exe This gives only the view client in the screen and nothing else. when they exit the vmware view client is started again.
via the GPO i also removed task maanager and all that stuff. This is for the ctrl alt delete option . Only reboot and shutdown are available.
So it works Perfect. Only some tuning need to be done.
I will try to make the windows env in a PXE environment and also with the Ubuntu i will figure out what it was but because of time i needed an other solution
Thank you for the start. I liked the solution for sure.
Regards Toine

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