Finding a good and affordable Thin Client for your home lab is now history. The awesome Raspberry Pi Thin Client Project gives you a ready-to-go image with Microsoft RDC, Citrix Receiver 13.1 and VMware View 3.2 to name just a few.
I bought the Raspberry Pi 2 Complete Starter Kit on Amazon for $69.99.
Downlad the RPi-TC image and transfer it to your Micro SD Card using Win32 Disk Imager. If you want to keep the original you should order an extra SD Card.
Since all my labs are isolated (192.168.1.x) I use Netscaler Gateway and VMware View Security server to connect to those solutions. I’m using a wildcard certificate from the awesome DigiCerts.
Now since the DMZ (10.110.88.x) is hosted on my home LAN I need to modify the hosts files on my clients to be able to connect.
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10.110.88.4 view.xenapptraining.com 10.110.88.9 desktop.xenapptraining.com |
For Raspberry Pi run the following command from terminal:
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sudo nano /etc/hostname |
For MAC run the following command from terminal:
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sudo nano /private/etc/hosts |
I bought a RaspPI 3 B+ from Amazon and it seems RPi-TC doesn’t recognize its wireless adapter. 🙁 Does anyone have any news on this?
Try contacting support.