FARONICS INSIGHT - Installing in a Thin Client Environment; Terminal Server 2003 Installation

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Installing in a Thin Client Environment
Insight has the ability to work in a Terminal Server or NComputing environment. Insight allows
thin client machines to be used as student and/or teacher machine. You can mix-and-match thin and
traditional client machines (fat clients) in the classroom.
e Insight Home Edition is supported on in Clients. However, this is limited to one
Teacher console and three Student workstations.
Terminal Server 2003 Installation
Installation is a two step process. Initially, the TerminalServer.msi installation program needs to be run
on the Terminal Server. is will copy all needed files to the Terminal Server but will not configure
any Terminal Server client machine as either a teacher or student. If the Terminal Server is in Execute
mode, the Aer Installation dialog will appear. Since Insight has been designed to install onto a Terminal
Server, it is not necessary to complete this dialog. You can press the Cancel button on this dialog at any
time.
Once you have complete this first step and the Insight files have been copied to the Terminal Server,
Insight must be properly configured to run on each desired thin client machine. You may do this on
one of three ways:
Manual Student or Teacher Install
Login to a thin client terminal with Administrator rights and run the SetupTSClient.exe program again.
Follow the wizard to assign that thin client as either a Student or Teacher machine. Repeat this for each
thin client device in the lab.
Scripting SetupTSClient.exe
To run SetupTSClient.exe from a script, there are some command-line options that facilitate this.
#x
Installs Insight with the Teacher Channel x. “x” must be a number between 1
to 16,000.
StUdEnT
Installs the Insight Student soware.
TeAcHeR
Installs the Insight Teacher soware.
QuIeT
Disables all user interface. Run SetupTSClient.exe in “silent” mode. is option
must be specified last in the command line.
UNINSTALL
Uninstalls the Insight soware from this machine.
NoLoAd
Does not auto-start the soware aer installation. e soware will start on
a teacher machine aer the next login. On student machines it will start aer
the next reboot.
For example, if the administrator wants to silently install a teacher on channel 1, the script should be:
SetupTSClient.exe #1 TeAcHeR QuIeT
e command line parameters are case sensitive.