MASSIVE thanks to Jim galbally.
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MASSIVE thanks to Jim galbally.
Some of you may have read my technical thread here that i neede dhelp with getting a safe reliable internet portal into my reception:
https://passionford.com/forum/general-car-related-discussion/242250-technical-pc-question-restricting-access.html
Well Jim galbally called me up and discussed the possibility of me installing a "Thin Client". Since i didnt know what one was, Jim asked me to trust him and he sent me a thin client, fully installed and configured allready. When i plugged it in and switched it on, it went right to my company wesbite from boot up. No action needed and teh user has no access to any other sites at all.
The cost? Zero.
Jim, thanks ever so much, favour noted and awaiting repayment at your leisure mate.
Things like this remind me of the good that internet Forums can bring, as i met Jim on the Forums and class him as a mate, weve had some good laughs over the years. (Even The eyebrow episode) Top man.
https://passionford.com/forum/general-car-related-discussion/242250-technical-pc-question-restricting-access.html
Well Jim galbally called me up and discussed the possibility of me installing a "Thin Client". Since i didnt know what one was, Jim asked me to trust him and he sent me a thin client, fully installed and configured allready. When i plugged it in and switched it on, it went right to my company wesbite from boot up. No action needed and teh user has no access to any other sites at all.
The cost? Zero.
Jim, thanks ever so much, favour noted and awaiting repayment at your leisure mate.
Things like this remind me of the good that internet Forums can bring, as i met Jim on the Forums and class him as a mate, weve had some good laughs over the years. (Even The eyebrow episode) Top man.
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Well thats just the type of person Jim is mate.
Has helped me out in the past and im sure if i needed anything that he could sort in the future he would only be too happy to help again.
He is indeed a top bloke
Has helped me out in the past and im sure if i needed anything that he could sort in the future he would only be too happy to help again.
He is indeed a top bloke
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no thanks needed really got loads of the f**kin things lying about 
mark, really must catch up soon need to see what other stupid creations you and john have come up with
mark, really must catch up soon need to see what other stupid creations you and john have come up with
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my driving is utter utter wank, i just know where i'm going
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Hmmm i was in the passanger seat of that!!!!!
Still i never did it when i drove the car round brands (with Jim having a panic atack in the passanger seat lol) esp after i braked halfway round paddock opps!
Still i never did it when i drove the car round brands (with Jim having a panic atack in the passanger seat lol) esp after i braked halfway round paddock opps!
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a thin client is basically a cut down PC. it has very low processing power, a small ammount of memory, no hard drive etc. etc.
theyre designed to just basically boot windows and load some very easy applications like Internet explorer, citrix, remote desktop/terminal server etc.
theyre most useful in environments like this where you want a public access internet terminal, or in organisations which use a pure citrix/terminal server environment. you invest a lot of money in the servers and then buy these cheap and easy to maintain thin clients
we bought a load then realised that the app they needed to run (a CRM web app) was mega CPU intensive and queries took 1min + so ripped em all out and replaced with desktops in 1 week since we'd opened em up we couldnt send em back
theyre designed to just basically boot windows and load some very easy applications like Internet explorer, citrix, remote desktop/terminal server etc.
theyre most useful in environments like this where you want a public access internet terminal, or in organisations which use a pure citrix/terminal server environment. you invest a lot of money in the servers and then buy these cheap and easy to maintain thin clients
we bought a load then realised that the app they needed to run (a CRM web app) was mega CPU intensive and queries took 1min +
so ripped em all out and replaced with desktops in 1 week since we'd opened em up we couldnt send em back
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Dunno about just using the one machine as above, suppose it would be an XPe machine. Ours run Windows CE which sucks as you can't really put any applications on the client itself.
We run a bunch of thin clients, Wyse WinTerms in fact. They come in a few different flavours, some being bigger/more powerful than others, and we use a Terminal Server. The thin clients simply run a Remote Desktop Connection which we have pointed at the Terminal Server and means they can use MS Office etc without the need for a PC.
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the internet access was taken care of via a "bodge"
the DNS was pointed toa fake DNS server, so all DNS lookups will fail. I then added the websites stu needs to the HOSTS file on the PC, so lookups for just those sites will work
i actually fucked it up tho as i forgot to add maps.google.com so none of his "find us" pages worked
the thing auto-logs in as a std user, and calls a batch file which repeatedly funs iexplore in kiosk mode pointing to the website. if anyone closes iexplore the batch file relaunches it.
it's not actually restricted as such, if you know what youre doing you could get past most of it, but it's done so that to the average joe they wouldnt be able to play around so it should discourange anyone from poking firther.
plus the great thign about a thin client is that if a customer does fuck it up, you just reboot it and it's all back as it was working fine
the DNS was pointed toa fake DNS server, so all DNS lookups will fail. I then added the websites stu needs to the HOSTS file on the PC, so lookups for just those sites will work
i actually fucked it up tho as i forgot to add maps.google.com so none of his "find us" pages worked
the thing auto-logs in as a std user, and calls a batch file which repeatedly funs iexplore in kiosk mode pointing to the website. if anyone closes iexplore the batch file relaunches it.
it's not actually restricted as such, if you know what youre doing you could get past most of it, but it's done so that to the average joe they wouldnt be able to play around so it should discourange anyone from poking firther.
plus the great thign about a thin client is that if a customer does fuck it up, you just reboot it and it's all back as it was working fine
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