Public Computing in a Library

Public Computing in a Library

hello wyse community,

i'm new to wyse thin clients but i'm hoping to use them for public computing in our library.

here's where we are right now:

i have a virtualized windows 2008 server running under vmware as a terminal server without vm view. i have purchased one S30 (CE) wyse thin client for testing. i am running a program called Cassie on the server for patron authentication and time management. i created a guest user on the server called Patron1 (guest account) and i can connect the thin client to the server and use IE, firefox, openoffice, etc.

users at our public access computers have internet access and word processing. and, while the kiosk mode works well, it is too restricted for us.

if i set the thin client privileges to "guest" and connect to the server, the guest has too many privileges and can change the desktop. i have spent countless hours with group policy trying to plug all the holes.

i think that i am doing something fundamentally wrong or i just don't understand the relationship between the thin client and the server.

if i do a search on "wyse thin clients" and Libraries, i can find many examples of libraries that are pleased with their shift from fat to thin computing for their public access computers.

i'm figuring that there is software (wyse?) that's available to fix this last hole so i can get this out on the floor.

any and all help will be appreciated.

thanks,

john