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I'm looking to upgrading a system that is becoming a bit cumbersome once I get over a few hundred PCs.
I've been googling this for a bit now, but I can't seem to find many options that do kiosk-lockdown, management, remote-desktop, file transfer other than signagelive and sitekiosk.
Are there any other technologies out there that I could leverage that I'm not finding?
Daniel
Posted 2014-01-21T00:13:37.637
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You haven't specified what OS the PC's are running, but here are my favorite tools for both Windows and Linux
If these machines are dumb kiosks, you may find doing a diskless 'thin pc' much easier to manage. Or reimage with fog on a regular basis (say every night)
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Checkout boxstarter for windows pc's
spuder
Posted 2014-01-21T00:13:37.637
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I'm using windows, but if the right tool can do all that in Linux, I'd consider saving on license fees – Daniel – 2014-01-21T23:01:25.763
also I should mention, this is more of a kiosk application, where a machine can be far away on an unknown network. SiteKiosk/Remote has had that advantage that as long as the ports are not blocked, vnc connection happened easily because all connections were outbound. – Daniel – 2014-01-22T04:25:15.200
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There are several options, however it depends on your skill set and underlying willingness to support open source software.
If you are familiar with Linux then I would strongly suggest that you look into the Linux Terminal Server Project, plus using Puppet for deployment and ldap for user management as this would fit all of your requirements.
Plus as a side note, its very easy to launch this up using Raspberry Pis
Dwight Spencer
Posted 2014-01-21T00:13:37.637
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There is a youtube vid on how to do this with Raspberry Pis at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcq5rWEeDko
– Dwight Spencer – 2014-01-21T00:57:24.807
Shouldn't this go to ServerFault? – MariusMatutiae – 2014-01-21T15:18:29.423