Riccardo Riva

This post will explain how to configure a quick and dirt RDP client, like a thin client, with an OLD Computer and Ubuntu.
You should use Ubuntu Desktop and even very old hardware.

I’ve tested on PC with Pentium3 Processor and 256 MB RAM with succesfull.

For this configuration I’ve created a simple shell script who establish the RDP connections and at the end of it shutdown the system.

For doing it do the following :

Install Ubuntu Desktop (from 7.04 to 9.10) on your system and configure networking.

Create a file with the folowing content and save it as /usr/local/bin/TS.sh

#!/bin/bash
rdesktop your.terminal.server.ip -u username -d yourADdomain -f -b -N -n localhostname -k it -a 16
/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now

Assign it correct ownership and permission :

chown root:nobody /usr/local/bin/TS.sh
chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/TS.sh

Create a link in your /home/username/.config/autostart with the following command :

ln -s /usr/local/bin/TS.sh TSAutostart

Modify your /etc/sudoers as the following :

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
ubuntu ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

Reboot you system and login with user “username”, you will see an RDP connections opened to your.terminal.server.ip and when you disconnect your machine from TS it will shutdown.

Hope this help

Bye
Riccardo

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